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Mini-lessons Cycle 2: Teaching Conventions in Mini-Lessons
Day 2: Stage directions for writing
Challenge: Get your students to become more intentional about their use of punctuation during a mini-lesson. Find a creative way to model how punctuation helps readers understand what to do — where to pause, stop, speed up, or express emotion. Be sure to collect the writing your students do after this particular mini-lesson so you can document how their use of punctuation was enhanced because of your teaching.
What’s different about the way your students are now using punctuation marks?
Are there any punctuation marks your students are missing?
How will you instruct them to use those marks properly so their “stage directions” are clear to their readers?