Reading Professional Literature

I have been reading Mechanically Inclined, and it is a very interesting way to approach teaching mechanics and grammar to my students.  It is basically pulling out sentences that show the correct way to form a sentence.  You can use a text that you are already using in your instruction, and use it as a model of how to write a sentence correctly.  For example, you may want to teach students how to use commas in lists.  After exposing the students to a sentence that does this correctly. the students practice making similar sentences in their writer's notebook.  Then, they try to apply this type of sentence into the piece that they are currently working on.  This strategy seems like a very manageable to include mechanics and grammar into your writer's workshop instruction.