Run-ons

Start with formative assessment on run-ons. They will do it now and also in Winter (post). They will teach mini lessons. Do students know what a r-o is? Can they identify?

ET: Don't want to take away creativity and enjoymnent. Do writing first, then do mini lessons. CS: Focus later on run-ons. MH: A lot of times if you read it quickly, students will miss r-o.

Please send along good ideas for fun run-on resources.

Verbally shared work examples of students who are clever writers, but had no conventions.

PLEASE bring copies of run-on maze stuff for Kristen on 11/23.

RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: Check out the Run-Ons wiki! Wonderful World of Run-ons wiki

Ellen and Chrissy provided the group with comprehensive packets of materials that they used.

Findings: 1. Students who didn't have run-ons in the beginning, didn't have them in the end. Students who did have run-ons, still had run-ons, even after all the work that the teacher put into this. SO.....should the teachers have spent more time on revising than run-ons?

2. In focusing on the run-ons, ELL students seem to have overcompensated. What do we do with a paper laden with other problems?