The National governor's Association's Common core Standards have been
released and can be accessed at www.corestandards.org.
    Though they still don't go as far as they ought to in that direction,
they seem a radical shift in favor of knowledge about language (not
just language behavior) throughout the grade levels. This, for
example, is from grade 7: "Explain the function of phrases and clauses
in general and their function in specific sentences." This seems to me
the sort of thing that can't happen solely "within the context of
writing" or through mini-lessons.
     Check it out. If I am reading this correctly, they are calling for
far more conscious attention to language from K-12.

Craig

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