
The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day
180 Reproducible Prompts and Quick-Writes for the Secondary Classroom
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The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day
180 Reproducible Prompts and Quick-Writes for the Secondary Classroom
About this book
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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Table of contents
- JOSSEY-BASS TEACHER
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- WHAT MAKES THIS BOOK DIFFERENT
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- Acknowledgements
- Action Verbs as a Method of Elaboration
- Adages
- Adjectives as a Method of Elaboration
- Adverbs as a Method of Elaboration: Practice #1
- Adverbs as a Method of Elaboration: Practice #2
- Allegory
- Alliteration
- Allusion
- Analogy
- Anecdote
- Antagonist
- Application and Synthesis
- Assessing Prompts: Determining Mode of Writing
- Assonance
- Autobiographical Collage
- Biography
- Brainstorming
- Brainstorming: Web
- Business Letter
- Character Sketch
- Characterization: Actions
- Characterization: Appearance
- Characterization: Environment
- Characterization: Inner Thoughts and Feelings
- Characterization: Inner Thoughts and Feelings
- Characterization: Speech
- Characterization: What Others Say
- Clichés
- Climax
- Choppy Style
- Commas
- Comparison/Contrast Essay
- Conflict: External
- Conflict: Internal
- Connectives
- Connotation or Denotation
- Definition as a Method of Elaboration
- Definitions: Specialized
- Denouement
- Description as a Method of Elaboration
- Descriptive Essay
- Dialect
- Dialogue as a Method of Elaboration
- Editing for Grammar Mistakes
- Elaboration
- Elaboration: Examples and Explanation as a Method
- Elaboration: Researchable Fact as a Method
- Euphemisms
- Expanded Moment
- Expository Writing
- Extended Metaphor
- Famous Quotations Blending into Author’s Own Words
- Famous Quotations as Methods of Elaboration
- Famous Quotations
- Fantasy
- Figurative Language Fill-Ins
- Flashback
- Foreshadowing
- Fragments
- Friendly Letter
- Full-Circle Ending in Narratives and Quick Writes
- Full-Circle Ending in Free Verse Poems
- Hooks
- How-To Vignette
- How-To or Process Writing
- Humor
- Hyperbole
- Hyphenated Modifier
- Idioms
- Inference
- Irony of Situation
- Interview Questions
- Literary Analysis
- Magic Three as a Method of Elaboration and Voice
- Metaphor
- Metaphor Quick Write
- Mood
- Motif
- Motivation
- Name
- Narrative
- Onomatopoeia
- Open-Ended Questions
- Paradox
- Pathetic Fallacy
- Peer Editing
- Personalizing Current Events: Turning Nonfiction into Fiction
- Personification
- Persuasive Writing
- Picture Prompt Writing
- Picture Prompt Rubric: Student-Interactive
- Play-Doh Writing Game
- Poem Cut-Ups
- Poignancy
- Point of View: Omniscient
- Prediction
- Redundancy
- Repetition for Effect: One Trick for Voice
- Repetition for Effect
- Run-On Sentences
- Science Fiction
- Sensory Images as a Method of Elaboration
- Sentence Variety: Sentence Combining
- Similes as Methods of Voice in a Paragraph
- Similes as Practice in Developing Voice
- Snapshot Poem
- Structure Rubric for One-Paragraph Essay
- Subjunctive Mood of Verbs
- Summary
- Symbol
- Thank-You Note
- Theme: Building Themes into Essays
- Themes: Works Built Around a Theme
- Transitions: More Sophisticated Methods
- Verb Tense Shift
- Vocabulary: I Don’t Think So
- Vocabulary: Which Word?
- Vocabulary: What If?
- NOTES
- Wiley End User License Agreement