I agree, and the curriculum I use addresses skills.
One thing I've started to do lately (not enough to have strong evidence, and only for some students) is going over text that is well written but with various kinds of errors sprinked throughout. I start with legally usable/reusable text, edit to my view of grammatical perfection if it not already there, then use that as the baseline document to which I add errors. Then I make an "edited" version of it showing the errors. A student can work on their own or with me with the error-filled but uncorrected version, then we can refer to the edited version to a) identify what needed to be fixed, and then, just in case, b) keep track of which errors are SAT/ACT meaningful. (I try to avoid errors that are not tested.) So far I've used this only with ACT students, since the ACT directly simulates editing more than the SAT does.
Interesting! That sounds like a good way to target the same skills with a different approach. I could that being especially useful if the articles are more entertaining for students than are typical passages.
I agree, and the curriculum I use addresses skills.
One thing I've started to do lately (not enough to have strong evidence, and only for some students) is going over text that is well written but with various kinds of errors sprinked throughout. I start with legally usable/reusable text, edit to my view of grammatical perfection if it not already there, then use that as the baseline document to which I add errors. Then I make an "edited" version of it showing the errors. A student can work on their own or with me with the error-filled but uncorrected version, then we can refer to the edited version to a) identify what needed to be fixed, and then, just in case, b) keep track of which errors are SAT/ACT meaningful. (I try to avoid errors that are not tested.) So far I've used this only with ACT students, since the ACT directly simulates editing more than the SAT does.
Interesting! That sounds like a good way to target the same skills with a different approach. I could that being especially useful if the articles are more entertaining for students than are typical passages.