A complete resource jam-packed with the engaging mini-lessons, strategies, and activities. Your students will learn how to identify persuasive words, analyze ads and commercials, direct their writing at a specific audience, and write persuasive editorials, business letters, and job applications. Plus, great ideas for writing and giving speeches! Includes reproducibles, rubrics, and evaluation forms. 64 pages
Text Types for Primary Schools: Book 5 (1st edition)
Text Types for Primary Schools is an engaging and innovative series, designed to assist students to write in a variety of text types according to their needs and purposes. The books provide relevant and challenging writing models that reflect the aims of all current state curriculum documents.
Looking for great ideas that will help your students become better and more imaginative writers? Everything you need to teach them how to tell a story—whether it's fiction or nonfiction—is here: literary models, pre-writing activities, mini-lessons on plot development and story resolution, editing and revising tips, plus rubrics and evaluation ideas. As students complete fun, yet challenging writing explorations, they'll be setting goals for their writing and learning how to target their writing for a specific audience. Includes reproducibles, checklists, and evaluation forms. For use with Grades 4-8.
Because so many first-year writing students lack the basic skills the course demands, reading specialist McWhorter gives them steady guidance through the challenges they face in academic work. Successful College Writing offers extensive instruction in active and critical reading, practical advice on study and college survival skills, step-by-step strategies for writing and research, detailed coverage of the nine rhetorical patterns of development, and 61 readings that provide strong rhetorical models, as well as an easy-to-use handbook in the complete edition.
Paragraph Power: 50 Engaging Mini-Lessons, Activities, and Student Checklists for Teaching Paragraphing Skills (Scholastic Teaching Strategies)
Best-selling author Adele Fiderer presents a series of mini-lessons to help students move from writing single paragraphs to crafting mutli-paragraph pieces. Each mini-lesson introduces an important element of good paragraph writing, such as crafting topic and body sentences that pack a punch, writing smooth transitions, and paragraphing dialogue. Includes super student models gathered from the author's long career as a classroom teacher.
