Correctness

Teacher edition · Grade 6 · Lesson 7 · Literature · Essay Voyage

Writing Book 6 · sheet 46

Fix what can be checked before judging what cannot.

2. Your turn

In your notebook: apply Correctness to three sentences of your own, double-spaced.

Below is what a full, correct answer looks like. Children's wording will differ and should — mark the thing this lesson taught, not everything at once.

Read out one sentence that uses Correctness.model — accept any answer that does the same job

3. Before you finish

Read out one sentence that uses Correctness.

Watch forA class that thinks correctness is the most important layer has taken the opposite lesson. It is first because it is easiest, not because it matters most.