What is prescriptive instruction? Whenever an opportunity for a lesson arises, use it to teach. Here are two examples. Paul, ten, was writing an essay answer and misused ‘there’. BTW this isn’t the first time. Yes, we have had ‘there, their, and they’re’ grammar lessons. Several times. Each time Paul mistakes the correct ‘there’, we retract. I’ve exhausted my own source of ‘there’ lessons and print another from the internet. Every single time he mistakes ‘there’, we do a quick lesson. It only takes five minutes.
We take the same approach for misunderstandings. Paul didn’t know how to read a protractor properly. Immediately, we located a lesson on angles and retaught the use of a protractor. In fact, we substituted the protractor lesson for his daily math work. Whenever, you see your child making a similar mistake or having a misunderstanding, stop and correct it. Hey we may do a quick lesson on homophones!
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