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Download or read book 100 Writing Lessons written by Tara McCarthy and published by Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dip into this vast collection of quick writing lessons and activities to find exactly what you need-whether it's a lesson on using exact words, writing an essay, developing a plot, or organizing a report. You'll find dozens of ideas for teaching students the persuasive, narrative, descriptive, and expository writing skills they need. This comprehensive resource gives you the tools you need to successfully-and joyfully-teach writing. For use with Grades 4Ð8.

Download or read book Writing Frames for the Interactive Whiteboard written by Liane Onish and published by Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These whiteboard-ready lessons provide a dynamic tool for helping students master key writing forms. Each lesson presents a must-know format, such as a personal narrative or a summary, and shows step by step how to introduce and teach the model--and how to use the interactive whiteboard to engage students in learning. The models include sentence starters and other annotations that help students understand the writing's structure. Filling in the missing information in the companion frames helps students to instantly organize their ideas. This resource also includes checklists that help students independently apply what they've learned. For use with Grades 3-6.

Download or read book Descriptive Writing written by Tara McCarthy and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mini-lessons, strategies, and activities help students improve their descriptive writing skills.

Download or read book Awesome Art Projects that Spark Super Writing written by Jan Wiezorek and published by Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of motivating art projects features 25 sure-fire ways to erase writer's block--and meet writing standards. Creativity-boosting activities, such as Found-Art Superheroes, The Room of My Dreams, Canned Art, and Shakespeare at the Movies, help students craft a coherent story, develop and support a main idea, build a persuasive argument, describe a scene using precise words, and much more. Using the art they create, students have a concrete visual idea and a high-interest starting point from which to begin writing--and their ideas flow onto the page. Teaching material includes mini-lessons, step-by-step directions, cross-curricular strategies, rubrics, and photographs of student samples. For use with Grades 4-8.

Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stretching Students' Vocabulary written by Karen D'Angelo Bromley and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents more than seventy strategies for building third- through eighth-grade students' vocabularies using sound, context, structure, and word investigation, and includes reproducibles and related Web addresses.

Download or read book 180 Days to Successful Writers written by Karen Donohue and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lesson plans linked to national standards help students develop lifelong writing skills and confidence as writers while preparing them for standardized writing tests.