Teaching Apostrophes (DVD)

Teaching Apostrophes is a fifteen-minute video that shows how Jeff Anderson uses playful strategies and mentor texts to engage writers in grammar and editing. In the 'Apostrophe-thon', Jeff's sixth-grade students search through a mentor text excerpt to find examples of apostrophes and then catergorise them as possessives or contractions based on a wall-chart the class has compiled. Using real-text, the students never fail to come up with some interesting examples such as 'o'clock' and the two meanings of 'they'd'.