What's the "And Diesase"?



The And Disease.

Sitting down during writing conferences I have noticed and influx of "and" being used in my students writing AND it is driving me crazy AND I finally decided to address it AND it went like this.

 

I asked one student if she would allow me to model a lesson using her paper. She agreed so I read it aloud to the class putting major emphasis on the word AND when I read it in her story.

When I read it they {laughed and laughed and laughed}! 

They thought I was crazy for using the word AND so many times

Their response "That's a lot of and's Mrs. Griffith".

 

I modeled to them what can be done with the word AND.

We crossed out the word AND then added a period in its place.

 

.  They were surprised when I told them that --they-- were actually the ones who were consumed by this disease! I had them go back and edit their papers for the "and disease", capitalization and punctuation.

 

We came up with a solution: When we reread our stories and find that we have the "and disease", we will erase the word and add a period in its place.

 

Problem solved, hopefully!