I wanted to find a way to get my students thinking from the perspective of the punctuation. Citing and Embedding Text Evidence Choice Board Assessments. So, I created two fun and engaging ways to practice with these challenging skills. My citing text evidence unit provides a great deal of practice, but I wanted to find something truly engaging and, dare I say it, fun for students. Yet, even with these creative and engaging methods, my students still needed further practice to fully perfect and solidify these skills into their own writing. You can learn more about the strategies I use to teach embedding quotations in this previous blog post. I use fun phrases to introduce these skills such as: ‘run-in quotes,’ ‘peppering a quote,’ and ‘deleting a quote.’ I use the phrase “no lonely quotes” in my lessons to remind students that they cannot simply throw a quote into the middle of their paragraph. I have come up with clever sayings and interesting methods to help with these skills. My students also struggle with truly embedding these quotations within their writing despite my repeated attempts to help them with this process.
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