The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day
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The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day

180 Reproducible Prompts and Quick-Writes for the Secondary Classroom

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eBook - ePub

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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Information

Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780470461327
eBook ISBN
9780470559468

Table of contents

  1. JOSSEY-BASS TEACHER
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. WHAT MAKES THIS BOOK DIFFERENT
  5. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Action Verbs as a Method of Elaboration
  8. Adages
  9. Adjectives as a Method of Elaboration
  10. Adverbs as a Method of Elaboration: Practice #1
  11. Adverbs as a Method of Elaboration: Practice #2
  12. Allegory
  13. Alliteration
  14. Allusion
  15. Analogy
  16. Anecdote
  17. Antagonist
  18. Application and Synthesis
  19. Assessing Prompts: Determining Mode of Writing
  20. Assonance
  21. Autobiographical Collage
  22. Biography
  23. Brainstorming
  24. Brainstorming: Web
  25. Business Letter
  26. Character Sketch
  27. Characterization: Actions
  28. Characterization: Appearance
  29. Characterization: Environment
  30. Characterization: Inner Thoughts and Feelings
  31. Characterization: Inner Thoughts and Feelings
  32. Characterization: Speech
  33. Characterization: What Others Say
  34. Clichés
  35. Climax
  36. Choppy Style
  37. Commas
  38. Comparison/Contrast Essay
  39. Conflict: External
  40. Conflict: Internal
  41. Connectives
  42. Connotation or Denotation
  43. Definition as a Method of Elaboration
  44. Definitions: Specialized
  45. Denouement
  46. Description as a Method of Elaboration
  47. Descriptive Essay
  48. Dialect
  49. Dialogue as a Method of Elaboration
  50. Editing for Grammar Mistakes
  51. Elaboration
  52. Elaboration: Examples and Explanation as a Method
  53. Elaboration: Researchable Fact as a Method
  54. Euphemisms
  55. Expanded Moment
  56. Expository Writing
  57. Extended Metaphor
  58. Famous Quotations Blending into Author’s Own Words
  59. Famous Quotations as Methods of Elaboration
  60. Famous Quotations
  61. Fantasy
  62. Figurative Language Fill-Ins
  63. Flashback
  64. Foreshadowing
  65. Fragments
  66. Friendly Letter
  67. Full-Circle Ending in Narratives and Quick Writes
  68. Full-Circle Ending in Free Verse Poems
  69. Hooks
  70. How-To Vignette
  71. How-To or Process Writing
  72. Humor
  73. Hyperbole
  74. Hyphenated Modifier
  75. Idioms
  76. Inference
  77. Irony of Situation
  78. Interview Questions
  79. Literary Analysis
  80. Magic Three as a Method of Elaboration and Voice
  81. Metaphor
  82. Metaphor Quick Write
  83. Mood
  84. Motif
  85. Motivation
  86. Name
  87. Narrative
  88. Onomatopoeia
  89. Open-Ended Questions
  90. Paradox
  91. Pathetic Fallacy
  92. Peer Editing
  93. Personalizing Current Events: Turning Nonfiction into Fiction
  94. Personification
  95. Persuasive Writing
  96. Picture Prompt Writing
  97. Picture Prompt Rubric: Student-Interactive
  98. Play-Doh Writing Game
  99. Poem Cut-Ups
  100. Poignancy
  101. Point of View: Omniscient
  102. Prediction
  103. Redundancy
  104. Repetition for Effect: One Trick for Voice
  105. Repetition for Effect
  106. Run-On Sentences
  107. Science Fiction
  108. Sensory Images as a Method of Elaboration
  109. Sentence Variety: Sentence Combining
  110. Similes as Methods of Voice in a Paragraph
  111. Similes as Practice in Developing Voice
  112. Snapshot Poem
  113. Structure Rubric for One-Paragraph Essay
  114. Subjunctive Mood of Verbs
  115. Summary
  116. Symbol
  117. Thank-You Note
  118. Theme: Building Themes into Essays
  119. Themes: Works Built Around a Theme
  120. Transitions: More Sophisticated Methods
  121. Verb Tense Shift
  122. Vocabulary: I Don’t Think So
  123. Vocabulary: Which Word?
  124. Vocabulary: What If?
  125. NOTES
  126. Wiley End User License Agreement