Jeff Anderson and literacy coach Whitney La Rocca take you into primary and intermediate classrooms where students are curious about language, engage with the world around them, and notice and experiment with the conventions all writers use. Instead of chanting grammar rules or completing countless convention worksheets, we invite young writers to explore conventions as special effects devices that activate meaning. Our students study authentic texts and come to recognize these “patterns of power”—the essential grammar conventions that readers and writers require to make meaning. The first part of the book introduces a vibrant approach to grammar instruction and sets up what you need to immerse yourself in the Patterns of Power process, inviting students to experiment and play with language. The second part of the book offers over seventy practical, ready-to-use lessons, including: Extensive support materials; Over 100 mentor sentences, curated for grades 1û5; Student work samples; Tips and power notes to facilitate your own knowledge and learning; Examples for application; In Patterns of Power Jeff and Whitney suggest that taking just five minutes from your reading workshop and five minutes from your writing workshop to focus on how the conventions connect reading and writing will miraculously affect your students’ understanding of how language works for readers and writers.

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Part 1 Getting Started with the Patterns-of-Power Process""; ""Chapter 1 Into Planning: What Do You Need to Do Before Teaching the Invitations? -- Chapter 2 Into the Classroom: How Do You Teach Conventions with the Invitations Process? -- Chapter 3 Into Application: How Do You Ensure Writers Apply What They Know? -- Part 2 Into the Patterns-of-Power Lesson Sets -- The Power of Sentences: Why Do Writers and Readers Use Sentences? -- Chapter 4 What Do Capital Letters Do? -- 4.1 Mercy Me! Capitalizing Names (Exemplar Lesson) -- 4.2 I Am Capitalization Worthy: Capitalizing the Pronoun I -- 4.3 Time of Your Life: Capitalizing Months and Days -- 4.4 Entitled to Be Capitalized: Capitalizing Titles -- 4.5 A Crayon Has Reasons: Capitalization in Letter Openings and Closings -- 4.6 History Is of Capital Importance: Capitalizing Historical Periods and Events -- 4.7 Honor Everyone's Heritage: Capitalizing Nationalities and Languages -- Chapter 5 What Do Nouns Do? -- 5.1 Spending Your Allowance: Know Your Nouns -- 5.2 Capital Offense: When to Capitalize, When Not To -- 5.3 One More Mountain to Climb: Proper Nouns -- 5.4 Give Peas a Chance: Plural Nouns -- 5.5 Pluralism: More Than One Noun -- 5.6 Add Groups to the Noun Collection: Collective Nouns -- Chapter 6 What Do Verbs Do? -- 6.1 Verbs Move: Verbs Mean Action -- 6.2 Tell It Like It Is (Are, Was, Were, Be, Been, and Am): The Verbs of Being -- 6.3 Have You Got the Time? Verb Tense -- 6.4 Highly Irregular: Nonconforming Verbs -- 6.5 Rain Pummeled the Ground Versus The Ground Was Pummeled by Rain: Finding Your Active Voice -- Chapter 7 What Do Sentences Do? -- 7.1 Subject-Verb Chomp: The Teeth of a Sentence -- 7.2 Subject and Verb Plus One: Adding to the Basic Noun and Verb -- 7.3 More Than Anything: Just Being Simple Sentences -- Chapter 8 What Do End Marks Do? -- 8.1 Choral Read Our Way to the End: Punctuation Voices -- 8.2 Never Fear: End Marks Are Here! -- 8.3 You Finish My Sentences: Readers Need Periods -- 8.4 Messy Room: Question Marks and Exclamation Points -- 8.5 Advanced End Mark Exploration -- The Power of Pairs: Why Do Writers Use Pairs? -- Chapter 9 What Do Apostrophes Do? -- 9.1 Let's Eat: Apostrophes of Restaurant Ownership -- 9.2 Apostrophe Family Reunion: Contractions and Possessives -- 9.3 Apostrophes Look Like Fingernails: Contractions -- Chapter 10 What Do Pronouns Do? -- 10.1 Standing In for a Crayon: Pronouns and Antecedents -- 10.2 Magic Tree House Pronouns: Possession -- 10.3 Indefinitely Save Me a Seat: Everybody Loves Indefinite Pronouns -- 11 How Do Verbs and Nouns Agree? -- 11.1 They All Saw a Verb: Verbs Make Friends with Nouns -- 11.2 Everyday Agreement: Nouns and Verbs --