The Writing Teacher′s Activity–a–Day: 180 Reproducible Prompts and Quick–Writes for the Secondary Classroom (JB-Ed: 5 Minute FUNdamentals)

The Writing Teacher′s Activity–a–Day: 180 Reproducible Prompts and Quick–Writes for the Secondary Classroom (JB-Ed: 5 Minute FUNdamentals)

by Mary Ellen Ledbetter (Author)

Synopsis

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.

$21.55

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20+ in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Publisher: Jossey Bass
Published: 26 Jan 2010

ISBN 10: 0470461322
ISBN 13: 9780470461327