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The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day

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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.


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    Series: JB-Ed: 5 Minute FUNdamentals Publisher: Wiley

    Kindle Book

    • Release date: December 4, 2009

    OverDrive Read

    • ISBN: 9780470559468
    • Release date: December 4, 2009

    EPUB ebook

    • ISBN: 9780470559468
    • File size: 1172 KB
    • Release date: December 4, 2009

    Formats

    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook

    Languages

    English

    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.


    Expand title description text