A Year Full of Writing Projects for Middle School


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Meet the diverse learning needs of students with intriguing projects that include advertising posters, comic books, broadcast news stories, and magazine articles.







100 Writing Starters for Middle School


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Designed for students to practice paragraph writing and simple expository writing.




Teaching Writing in Middle School


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Classroom-tested lessons, practice problems, examples, games, and resources cover fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as all aspects of writing (including prewriting, editing, and technique). With step-by-step guidelines, helpful tips from the authors, and numerous writing activities, this book offers myriad options for inspiring your students. Everything you need to make your writing program a success has been incorporated into this treasury. Classroom-tested lessons, practice problems, examples, games, and resources cover fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as all aspects of writing (including prewriting, editing, and technique). With step-by-step guidelines, helpful tips from the authors, and numerous writing activities, this book offers myriad options for inspiring your students.







Future Ready Creative Writing Projects


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Writing skills are important. Not only can writing be used to convey a meaning, but it can also be a means of being creative. Here, readers will learn some of the skills they need to master creative writing. Activities and clear examples help encourage students to come up with their own ideas. Basic story elements are explained in detail, allowing readers to understand the functioning principals of narration, plot, characters, setting, and more. Full-color photos and exciting language make readers eager to try their own hand at writing. Fast facts and sidebars bring new insight into the task of writing, while the glossary reinforces new vocabulary. A Further Reading section inspires further research.




1001 Writing Projects for Students


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Cooper presents a paragraph-a-day plan for daily writing practice requiring only 15 minutes a day. The book can be used as a companion to any creative writing instructional program or curriculum.




Time to Write


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Provides 43 lessons to inspire upper elementary and middle school students with an interesting topic and guides them through a creative writing activity in prose or poetry. These lessons help build writing skills such as word choice, structuring a narrative, and editing. Includes reproducibles and a teaching guide.




Building Strong Writers in Middle School


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Improve proficiency in core language arts concepts with 24 classroom-ready activities that align with Common Core State Standards. By engaging students in meaningful language arts activities that relate to their lives, teachers can promote authentic writing in which students explore their personal thoughts and beliefs, resulting in richer work. Complete with step-by-step directions and student examples—and developed and tested in public and private classrooms with students of varying abilities—Building Strong Writers in Middle School helps students understand themselves and one another more deeply, contemplate how their writing can affect the larger world, and express themselves in literary forms. With writing now being required across the curriculum, teaching language arts at the middle school level is more important than ever. Digital content includes reproducible handouts.




Write to Know


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Ready-to-use set of nonfiction writing prompts for middle school students that will lead students to higher achievement. Also included are classroom implementation ideas.