What You Can Learn From Understanding Language Conventions Books

By Walter Sanders


Convection, as complicated as it sounds, it actually is not. This is the basics of putting sentences of a language together and ensuring they make sense. Without proper convection, the reader would always a hard time trying to understand the content of the writing. It involves punctuation, sentence formation, among other things. This article understands the understanding language conventions books.

There are 5 main features of effective writing. Effective writing is being able to write down information that is grammatically correct and can be understood by the reader. Convections include mechanics, usage, and sentence formation. Mechanics do not exist in oral language as they include punctuation, paragraphs, spelling, and capitalization. Due to their absence in verbal language learners are taught to apply them to writing.

Usage is how the child uses the sentences. This is in both spoken and written language. It is easy to teach especially to children whose first language is English. This is because they have learned a little and can use it to express themselves. Sentence formation is the stage at which the student can express their thoughts and ideas. As they become better with language, the sentences become longer and more complicated.

Not every child has been taught English as a first language. So it may be a bit of a task to get them to speak it and write it correctly. They will otherwise translate directly from their first language in which they will develop broken English. After learning about verb tense and subject-verb agreement, the child should proceed to learn the grammatical rules of the language.

At a tender age, probably from the first grade downwards, it may be hard for the child to understand all about convection. So at this age, you should focus more on the creativity of the child and less on the grammatical errors. Once they learn how to speak and even to read fluently, the rest will be surprisingly easy to explain to them. So encourage their creativity and focus less on the grammar part.

As the child progresses, they should majorly focus on their oral skills. This means that their first drafts should not be corrected. Try concentrating more on the flow of their sentence. This can be achieved by the teacher letting a small group of students read their work at the end of each writing exercise. With time, their oral language becomes totally fluent.

So, after the teacher ensures the spellings are correct, they should proceed to punctuation marks and capitalization. This can be done when the whole class is reading a book together. The teacher can take the time to explain why the author used the different punctuation marks. After the explaining, the students should be encouraged to come up with their own sentences and try using punctuation marks.

After the child learns how to punctuate, you should let them try to write on new topics. This helps them encounter new words. Then you can have a word wall they can write these words and find their meanings. They can also proofread each others work and get new ideas and be more careful with their writing.




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