Getting to the Core of Writing
eBook - PDF

Getting to the Core of Writing

Essential Lessons for Every Fourth Grade Student

  1. 299 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Getting to the Core of Writing

Essential Lessons for Every Fourth Grade Student

About this book

Inspire students to develop as writers in the fourth grade classroom with these engaging and creative writing lessons. This classroom-tested resource shows positive results in students'' writing and simplifies the planning of writing instruction. It contains detailed information on how to establish and manage daily Writer''s Workshop and includes consistent, structured instruction to encourage students to actively participate in the writing process. Specific lessons to help students develop the traits of quality writing are also included. This resource develops college and career readiness skills and is aligned to today''s standards.

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Information

Publisher
Shell Education
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9781425895051
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Credits
  3. Page 3 - Table of Contents
  4. Page 4 - Table of contents (cont.)
  5. Page 5 - Introduction
  6. Page 5 - The Importance of Writing
  7. Page 6 - Traits of Quality Writing
  8. Page 7 - The Reading and Writing Connection
  9. Page 10 - The Purpose of Assessment
  10. Page 11 - How to Use This Book
  11. Page 11 - Planning Writing Instruction
  12. Page 14 - Components of Writerā€™s Workshop
  13. Page 15 - Implementing the Lessons
  14. Page 18 - Implementing Writerā€™s Workshop
  15. Page 19 - The Writing Conference
  16. Page 21 - The Writer's Notebook
  17. Page 23 - Top 10 Tips for Creating Successful Writers
  18. Page 24 - Correlation to Standards
  19. Page 31 - Acknowledgments
  20. Page 32 - About the Authors
  21. Page 33 - Managing Writerā€™s Workshop
  22. Page 35 - Lesson 1: Components of Writerā€™s Workshop
  23. Page 38 - Lesson 2: Our Group Meeting
  24. Page 41 - Lesson 3: The Writing Folder
  25. Page 50 - Lesson 4: The Writerā€™s Notebook
  26. Page 52 - Lesson 5: Organizing the Writerā€™s Notebook
  27. Page 58 - Lesson 6: Sharing
  28. Page 62 - Lesson 7: Turn and Talk
  29. Page 65 - Lesson 8: Guidelines forWriterā€™s Workshop
  30. Page 68 - Lesson 9: Teacher and Peer Conferences
  31. Page 71 - Lesson 10: The Five-StepWriting Process
  32. Page 75 - Ideas
  33. Page 77 - Lesson 1: My Authority List
  34. Page 80 - Lesson 2: Authors as Mentors
  35. Page 83 - Lesson 3: Interesting Places
  36. Page 86 - Lesson 4: The Best Times!The Worst Times!
  37. Page 89 - Lesson 5: Brainstorming Boxes
  38. Page 92 - Lesson 6: What Should We Write?
  39. Page 95 - Lesson 7: Pocket of Picture Topics
  40. Page 98 - Lesson 8: I Wonder List
  41. Page 101 - Sentence Fluency
  42. Page 103 - Lesson 1: Circle and Count
  43. Page 106 - Lesson 2: Subject + Predicate =Sentence
  44. Page 110 - Lesson 3: Sentence Search
  45. Page 117 - Lesson 4: Appositive Action
  46. Page 121 - Lesson 5: Compound Sentences
  47. Page 126 - Lesson 6: Writing ComplexSentences
  48. Page 131 - Lesson 7: Stepping Up Sentences
  49. Page 134 - Lesson 8: Building TriangleSentences
  50. Page 137 - Organization
  51. Page 139 - Lesson 1: Creating Cinquains
  52. Page 142 - Lesson 2: Powerful Paragraphs
  53. Page 145 - Lesson 3: Narrative Notes
  54. Page 148 - Lesson 4: Build-a-Character
  55. Page 151 - Lesson 5: Story Building Blocks
  56. Page 154 - Lesson 6: Itā€™s a Bear Beginning
  57. Page 158 - Lesson 7: Donā€™t You Agree?
  58. Page 161 - Lesson 8: Itā€™s Your Business
  59. Page 165 - Lesson 9: How-To Writing
  60. Page 168 - Lesson 10: Composition Planner
  61. Page 172 - Lesson 11: A Cache of Poetry
  62. Page 175 - Word Choice
  63. Page 177 - Lesson 1: Stupendous Similes
  64. Page 180 - Lesson 2: Be a Word Wizard
  65. Page 183 - Lesson 3: Connecting Ideas
  66. Page 187 - Lesson 4: Put ā€œSaidā€ to Bed
  67. Page 190 - Lesson 5: COW to WOW
  68. Page 193 - Lesson 6: Auspicious Adjectives
  69. Page 196 - Lesson 7: Be Explicitly Specific
  70. Page 199 - Lesson 8: Adverb Alert
  71. Page 203 - Lesson 9: Alliteration Action
  72. Page 207 - Voice
  73. Page 209 - Lesson 1: Show Me Your Voice
  74. Page 215 - Lesson 2: Whatā€™s My Voice?
  75. Page 217 - Lesson 3: The Voices on the Bus
  76. Page 220 - Lesson 4: Various Voices
  77. Page 223 - Conventions
  78. Page 225 - Lesson 1: Capital Creations
  79. Page 228 - Lesson 2: Super Spellers
  80. Page 231 - Lesson 3: Common Comma Conventions
  81. Page 235 - Lesson 4: The Color of CUPS
  82. Page 239 - Lesson 5: Dandy Dialogue
  83. Page 242 - Lesson 6: Show Me Editing
  84. Page 245 - Lesson 7: Traits Team Checklist
  85. Page 248 - Lesson 8: Digging into Editing
  86. Page 253 - Appendices
  87. Page 253 - Appendix A: Conferring Resources
  88. Page 261 - Appendix B: Assessment Resources
  89. Page 273 - Appendix C: Mentor Text List
  90. Page 282 - Appendix D: Additional Resources
  91. Page 287 - Appendix E: References
  92. Page 290 - Appendix F: Contents of the TeacherResource CD
  93. Thank You Page