Image Grammar Ch. 9

• · Noden gives a scenario: Ms. Latimeer says, “Be sure to proofread. I won’t accept anything that isn’t thoroughly edited,” student Harvey Sloopwater glances at his three-hundred-plus-page grammar handbook in horror. I think that this happens to often! I remember teachers saying: “Make sure you proofread!” But we need to teach students how, using all of the “essential dimensions of revision,” and not just edit for conventions.
• · The short checklists were phenomenal. Noden provides the reader with so many tools. The combined checklist was great. I know that my students at Coventry would love this, because they LOVE knowing exactly what they have to do to get an A!
• · I wanted to point out that Mark Jamison, the teacher Noden talks about on page 185, is a teacher in Coventry, where I am student teaching. Although I am at the middle school and he is at the high school, my cooperating teacher has arranged for me to observe him for a few days. My cooperating teacher has told me that he is a phenomenal teacher, so his KSU student teacher, Sarah Beth, will go to my class and observe while I am in her class. Just an interesting little factJ.
• · Out of the strategies given, I loved strategy #2: Punctuate That That Is Is That. I think that my students would love this and it truly inspires thinking. This would really allow students to think about the meaning of a sentence and how punctuation shapes a sentence.