Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day

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Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day

180 Reproducible Prompts and Quick-Writes for the Secondary Classroom

Education Secondary schools Teaching of a specific subject Educational: First / native language: Reading and writing skills

Author: Mary Ellen Ledbetter

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Language: English

Published by: Jossey-Bass

Published on: 4th December 2009

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 1 Mb

ISBN: 9780470559468


Classroom-tested methods for boosting secondary students' writing skills

The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day offers teachers, homeschoolers, and parents 180 ready-to-use, reproducible activities that enhance writing skills in secondary students. Based on Ledbetter's extensive experience consulting to language arts teachers and school districts across the country, the classroom-tested activities included in this book teach students key literary and writing terms like allegory, elaboration, irony, personification, propaganda, voice, and more--and provide them with engaging examples that serve as models for their own Quick Writes.

  • Contains writing prompts and sample passages in student-friendly language that connects abstract literary concepts to students' own lives
  • Written by popular workshop presenter and veteran educator Mary Ellen Ledbetter
  • Offers a user-friendly, value-packed resource for teaching writing skills

Designed for English language arts teachers in grades 6-12, tutors, parents, learning specialists, homeschoolers, and consultants.

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