Author : Lexi Rees
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781872889245
Discover the secrets to becoming an amazing author. - Find your creative spark - Grow your skills and confidence - Have more fun with your writing Packed with top tips, this awesome workbook has everything you need to know about creating colourful characters, perfect plots, dynamite dialogue, and lots more.
Author : Ariel Sacks
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,88 MB
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 1118526503
Work with students at all levels to help them read novels Whole Novels is a practical, field-tested guide to implementing a student-centered literature program that promotes critical thinking and literary understanding through the study of novels with middle school students. Rather than using novels simply to teach basic literacy skills and comprehension strategies, Whole Novels approaches literature as art. The book is fully aligned with the Common Core ELA Standards and offers tips for implementing whole novels in various contexts, including suggestions for teachers interested in trying out small steps in their classrooms first. Includes a powerful method for teaching literature, writing, and critical thinking to middle school students Shows how to use the Whole Novels approach in conjunction with other programs Includes video clips of the author using the techniques in her own classroom This resource will help teachers work with students of varying abilities in reading whole novels.
Author : Jan Venolia
Publisher :
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 13,76 MB
Release : 1982
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780898150612
Simplifies the most important points of grammar, punctuation and style. Includes a list of frequently misspelled words and demonstrates proper usage with quotes from literature and politics.
Author : Flash Kids
Publisher : Spark Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,83 MB
Release : 2006-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781411404847
This workbook is designed to reinforce specific writing skills including personal narrative, fable, comparative writing, descriptive writing, and writing a short report.
Author : Patrick T. Randolph
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 16,39 MB
Release : 2020-02-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781942799863
Creative writing offers multiple genres that give your ELs an opportunity to practice many types of writing skills. Poetry, prose, dialogue, and creative non-fiction are just a few of the myriad styles, forms, and skills that can help ELs broaden their understanding of what writing is all about, while making them better writers. But most of all, creative writing is fun! The new volume offers over 95 creative activities.
Author : Jon Franklin
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Rhetoric
ISBN :
It's the new nonfiction: the creative hybrid combining the readability and excitement of fiction with the best of expository prose; the innovative genre that has been awarded virtually every Pulitzer Prize for literary journalism since 1979. In this book, an undisputed master of the great American nonfiction short story shares his secrets.
Author : Teresa Grainger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 2005-05-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134332823
This accessible yet authoritative book considers and encourages flexible, playful and innovative practices in the teaching of writing, and shows how certain practices can develop children's creative and linguistic potential and their overall skill
Author : Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1635924014
A NCTE Notable Poetry Book Twenty-two poems capture the amazing power of writing and will inspire even the most reluctant writer to begin putting words to paper. Write! Write! Write! is a poetry collection that explores every stage and every aspect of the writing process, from learning the alphabet to the thrilling moment of writing a thought for the first time, from writer's block to finding inspiration, and from revision to stapling your finished work into a book. These poems also celebrate how writing teaches patience, helps express opinions, and allows us to imagine the impossible. This book, brimming with imagination and wonder, will leave readers eager to grab a pen, pencil, or keyboard--and write!
Author : Barbara Baig
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 19,26 MB
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1599632020
Athletes practice. Musicians practice. As a writer you need to do the same. Whether you have dreams of writing a novel or a memoir or a collection of poems, or you simply want to improve your everyday writing, this innovative book will show you how to build your skills by way of practice. Through playful and purposeful exercises, you'll develop your natural aptitude for communication, strengthening your ability to come up with things to say, and your ability to get those things into the minds (and the hearts) of readers. You'll learn to: • Train and develop your writer's powers—creativity, memory, observation, imagination, curiosity, and the subconscious • Understand the true nature of the relationship between you and your readers • Find your writer's voice • Get required writing projects done so you have more time for the writing you want to do • And much more Empowering and down-to-earth, How to Be a Writer gives you the tools you need, and tells you what (and how) to practice so that you can become the writer you want to be.
Author : Ruth E. McDaniel
Publisher : Christian Liberty Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 39,66 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781930092709
This workbook is an excellent foundation for developing creative writing skills. Topics covered include the tools needed for writing, review of sentence structures, poetry styles and techniques, writing dialogue, outlining a story, writing powerful beginnings and endings, rewriting and proofreading, manuscript preparation and critiques, copyrights, how to get published, and a Christian philosophy of writing. Grades 7-8."
