Conventions and Craft, Grade 2: A Full Year of Literature-Based Micro-Workshops to Build Essential Understandings for Grammar, Sentence Structure & Word Study

If you’re looking for a lively, literature-infused alternative to traditional instruction in conventions, look no further than Conventions and Craft. This breakthrough resource provides a year’s worth of instruction in the language skills writers need most—skills in grammar, sentence structure, punctuation and capitalization, word knowledge, and editing. One convention, or “understanding,” is covered each week in a lesson cycle made up of five “micro-workshops” that take just 10 minutes a day!

Each grade-specific kit includes:

• 192-page, spiral-bound Teacher’s Guide
• An anthology of 14 full-color short texts
• 6 informational trade books by well-known nonfiction authors
• Access to a companion website with assessment tools and videos of Linda Hoyt conducting model lessons
• Sample Student Papers for use in lessons
• A Skills Continuum inspired by CCSS, TEKS, and VSOL
• Sample Year-Long Plans

Master Teacher Linda Hoyt provides all the materials to carry out effective instruction in conventions: mentor texts, teacher writing samples, student work samples, lesson support pages, assessment and record-keeping tools, videos of lesson cycles in action, and more. It’s all here! You’ll spend less time prepping and more time teaching.