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Daily Editing
By sj

I've done the sentence correction daily activity this year, and last (I moved up from first to second with them), and my students seem to be pretty good at finding errors. However, the hardest thing for them is finding where one idea ends and another begins. I can lead them to the answer by asking, "What two things did the writer say?" They usually respond well to my question, but when left alone they will still stick periods in arbitrarily. I teach subject/predicate and noun/verb, but it seems that those ideas are almost as intangible as the "complete thought" idea to my slower students. I've wondered if their ability to distinguish between thoughts is a developmental thing, because I've never found a sure-fire way to get all my kids to understand.