Teacher+Research+Project+Hadyniak

__**Links to articles:**__ "Teaching Grammar in the Context of Writing" Constance Weaver http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/EJ/0857-nov96/EJ0857Teaching.pdf

"Teaching Writing in the High School: Fifteen Years in the Making" David Peter Noskin http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/EJ/0901-sept00/EJ0901Teaching.pdf

__**State Standards Used:**__ CE 1.1.5~ Revise drafts to more full and/or precisely convey meaning--drawing on response from other, self-reflection, and reading one's own work with the ye of the reader: then refine the text-- deleting and/or reorganizing ideas, and addressing ideas, and addressing potential readers' questions.

CE 1.1.6~ Reorganize sentence elements as needed and choose grammatical and stylistic options that provide sentence variety, fluency, and flow.

CE 1.1.7~ Edit for style, tone, and word choice (specificity, variety, accuracy, appropriateness, conciseness) and for conventions of grammar, usage and mechanics that are appropriate for audience.

__**Interview with Mrs. Diamond~Crestwood High School:**__

__**Proposal/Rationale/Review/Method:**__
 * || Points || Possible Points ||
 * Proposal & Rationale || 5 || 5 ||
 * Annotated Journal References || 5 || 5 ||
 * Review of Research || 20 || 20 ||
 * Propose Method of Research || 8 || 10 ||
 * ** Total ** || 38 || 40 ||

I think you know the answer to whether students should be assessed on grammar they have not been taught, so your question might be how do I decide what to teach? This is really very complicated, because the most common mistakes are not always the critical ones to teach. Predictably spelling and commas are the most frequent mistakes, but they are not the most consequential to improving writing. In fact the elements of grammar are important depending on the genre you are teaching, so your decision on what to teach relates to the genre that students are learning: E.g. in narratives—punctuation of dialog and verb tense In analytic essays -- quoting and citing passages; subordinate sentence structure A good study would be to notice the problems students have writing in a certain genre and to design lessons for teaching grammar for that genre.