I am on spring break right now, but when we return to school on Monday, I will have one week to finish preparing my sixth-graders for our state test.
In Georgia, our kids are required to know an absolutely ridiculous amount of grammar terms and skills: simple/complete subject/predicate every part of speech, including SIX types of pronouns: indefinite, demonstrative, interrogative, subject, object, etc. ) compound/complex/simple sentences punctuation dependent/independent clauses tone/mood research skills (key words, which website will contain which information, reading a bibliography, table of contents, index, etc.) verb tenses transition words topic/closing sentences unifying idea of a paragraph predicate nouns predicate adjectives direct object indirect object object of preposition fragments run-ons etc. etc. My kids have done a great job this year with all of this stuff, but there is SO MUCH of it. I need to review all of this stuff in 3-4 90-minute class periods and don't want to completely bore the kids to death. Also, they are so squirmy and don't do well with a lot of direct instruction. Any ideas for preparing my kids for the state tests without just making them completely shut down (especially my one group of strugglers are getting very frustrated with all the grammar) would be so greatly appreciated. I want my kids to be prepared, but I don't want us to have a miserable week next week. May _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
