This year I have had a college student who is doing her "September Experience" with me. Basically she started the year when I did, helped to put up the room and get things ready for the year to begin, and also has to teach ten lessons. She is only with me for the month of September.
I'm trying to help her get in her ten lessons, without having them be huge things. One type of lesson I thought she could do was with punctuation review. I have taken a simple book, written at a second grade level, and typed it up leaving out the basic punctuation marks. I give the student a page at a time, tell them how many mistakes there are to find, and let them search for them. It's good punctuation practice.
So, my September Experience gal watched me introduce the first lesson, and watched me later make corrections with the students. I then gave her the next page to do with the kids. I first asked her to find all of the mistakes, so that she could let the kids know how many they were to find in all (helpful to have a goal...). Later, she brought it to me to make sure she had found all of the mistakes.
What I found is that she made one particular mistake all the way through the paper. It was unbelievable. Here's an example:
"Put the cat out before you leave." She said.
And she did this consistantly throughout her paper. Everytime quotes were used, she put a period where the comma was to go. And let me add that this gal is a COLLEGE GRADUATE! She is working on her Master's degree. How do you graduate from college and still make a grammatical error like that one? They teach that in fourth grade, for goodness sakes!
To make matters worse, when I pointed out this error, she said she knew the rule but had had a "brain fart." How disgusting...
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