Today I finished grading the last few grammar assignments from last week, and I was pleased to see the effort students put into avoiding adverbs which interrupted verb phrases. My two biggest pieces of advice were to ignore words ending with an -ly suffix, and "not" is never a verb. Many had crossed out anything which interrupted, and as a result did a better job of finding the correct answer. We have pretty much finished our initial work for verb phrases and are on to our final areas of "foundation" skills, which include subject and object pronouns, and the five basic jobs of nouns/pronouns.
In reading, I enjoyed our lesson on point of view. I find it interesting that throughout my academic career we learned about first person and third person omniscient, period. Now, we have things like third person limited, etc. Our story today fit the bill perfectly to assist students in understanding the difference between third person omniscient and third person limited. I admit, even I was a bit surprised at how well it worked illustrate this concept.
GW
