This video shows how Jeff Anderson uses playful strategies and mentor texts to engage writers in grammar and editing. In the "Apostrophe-thon," Jeff's sixth-grade students in San Antonio, Texas search through a mentor text excerpt to find examples of apostrophes and then categorize them as possessives or contractions based on a wall chart the class has compiled. Using real text, the students never fail to come up with some interesting examples such as "O'clock" and the two meanings of "they'd."
Teaching Apostrophes.
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014.
Title from title frames.
Originally produced by Stenhouse Publishers in 2008.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Anderson, Jeff, contributor.
Kanopy (Firm)
