Conventions and Craft, Grade K: 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 sentence structure, grammar and word study, punctuation and capitalization, and editing skills, as well as “Get Started” skills that will put kindergarteners on the road to writing success.
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.