Brighten Up Boring Beginnings and Other Quick Writing Lessons


Book Description

Students become better writers when they have the techniques at their fingertips. With this book, you'll have the ready-to-go mini-lessons and follow-up practice sheets that target the writing skills students need most. Combine sentences, cut out clutter, remedy run-ons, show-don't-tell, doctoring dialogue, punching up passive sentences, and more! Fully reproducible! Perfect for daily quick-writes! For use with Grades 4 & Up.




50 Fabulous Measurement Activities


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Important math skills are taught using games.




Literature-Based Mini-Lessons


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Use the magic of picture books to teach kids essential word skills. This guide features 15 engaging, reproducible lessons to help students become more fluent readers. Illustrations.




25 Terrific Literature Activities


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Easy, motivating activities take students "into," "through," and "beyond" literature. Students will love and learn from these classroom-tested response projects. With rubrics for assessing written responses. For use with Grades 4-8.




Literature-Based Mini-Lessons to Teach Writing


Book Description

Using favorite picturebooks for her mini-lessons models, teacher Susan Lunsford shares 15 easy-to-do writing lessons. Mini-lessons include: Where do story ideas come from? Great First Lines, Exploring Settings, Painting Pictures with Words, Writing a Complete Story, and Great Endings. Her teacher-student dialogues make it all easy to replicate in your own classroom. Each mini-lessons includes follow-up strategies and activities and picturebook suggestions. Writing conference and management tips too! For use with Grades 1-3.




Teaching with Favorite Newbery Books


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Contains engaging discussion questions, vocabulary builders, writing prompts, and great literature response activities.




Teaching Writing with Picture Books as Models


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Presents lessons designed to show teachers how to use picture books to teach writing skills to students in grades four through eight, and includes recommended reading lists.




Grammar Works!


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Grade level: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, e, i, s, t.




Language Arts Mini-lessons


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Step-by-Step Skill-Builders for Your Classroom. make reading and writing more meaningful to children, with author studies! This photo-filled guide supports you through every step in the process: choosing author, nurturing independent readers, celebrating writers with innovative projects, setting up author visits, assessment, and more.