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Setting and Description
Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Writing and Literary Analysis Skills in Grades 4 to 8
- 167 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Setting and Description
Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Writing and Literary Analysis Skills in Grades 4 to 8
About this book
The Let Them Write Series is a classroom-tested, teacher-friendly resource for Language Arts teachers of grades 4 through 8. The program is organized in nine sections, each presenting a buffet of from five to nine 1- or 2-week modules. Each classroom-ready module consists of a series of comprehensive, easy-to-follow lesson plans complete with reproducible handouts and cross-curricular extensions, together creating a proven successful template for the teaching of writing and literary analysis skills.
Setting and Description focuses on the effective use of descriptive writing techniques to depict a story setting. Students practice first-drafting, editing, polishing and sharing original scenes and stories set in realistically described times and places.
The textcan be implemented in the classroom alone or in tandem with the two other titles in the Let Them Write Series —PLOT BUILDING and CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT.
Also of interest for classroom teachers is the Literacy: Made for All Series
WORDSMITHING: Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Nonfiction Writing and Analysis Skills in the High School Grades
ENJOYING LITERATURE: Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Fiction and Poetry Analysis Skills in the High School Grades
STORY CRAFTING: Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Fiction Writing in the High School Grades
Setting and Description focuses on the effective use of descriptive writing techniques to depict a story setting. Students practice first-drafting, editing, polishing and sharing original scenes and stories set in realistically described times and places.
The textcan be implemented in the classroom alone or in tandem with the two other titles in the Let Them Write Series —PLOT BUILDING and CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT.
Also of interest for classroom teachers is the Literacy: Made for All Series
WORDSMITHING: Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Nonfiction Writing and Analysis Skills in the High School Grades
ENJOYING LITERATURE: Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Fiction and Poetry Analysis Skills in the High School Grades
STORY CRAFTING: Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Fiction Writing in the High School Grades
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction. How to Implement This Program
- Section 1. SETTING THE SCENE
- SETTING THE SCENE SKILL 1. DESCRIBING AN INDOORS SETTING
- SETTING THE SCENE SKILL 2. DESCRIBING AN OUTDOOR SETTING
- SETTING THE SCENE SKILL 3. DESCRIBING AN OCCASIONALLY VISITED LOCATION
- SETTING THE SCENE SKILL 4. DESCRIBING A MODE OF TRANSPORTATION
- SETTING THE SCENE SKILL 5. REVEALING SETTING TO THE READER
- Section 2. INCLUDING SENSORY DETAIL
- INCLUDING SENSORY DETAIL SKILL 1. USING THE SENSE OF SMELL
- INCLUDING SENSORY DETAIL SKILL 2. USING THE SENSE OF TOUCH
- INCLUDING SENSORY DETAIL SKILL 3. USING THE SENSE OF TASTE
- INCLUDING SENSORY DETAIL SKILL 4. USING THE SENSE OF HEARING
- INCLUDING SENSORY DETAIL SKILL 5. USING THE SENSE OF SIGHT
- INCLUDING SENSORY DETAIL SKILL 6. ACTION DESCRIPTION
- Section 3. INCLUDING FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
- INCLUDING FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE SKILL 1. SIMILES TO DESCRIBE APPEARANCES
- INCLUDING FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE SKILL 2. SIMILES TO DESCRIBE ACTIONS
- INCLUDING FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE SKILL 3. USING METAPHORS
- INCLUDING FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE SKILL 4. USING ONOMATOPOEIA
- INCLUDING FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE SKILL 5. USING SYNESTHESIA