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Informationen zum Autor MARY ELLEN LEDBETTER, M.A. , is a noted presenter and educational consultant specializing in boosting language arts skills in K?12 students. She has extensive teaching experience in public schools as well as at the college level. Her previous books include Ready-To-Use English Workshop Activities Writing Portfolio Activities Kit Something for Every Day, All About Me , and You Say?I Say . Klappentext Praise for The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day "The most difficult area to teach in language arts is writing, and this text now makes it easier--it will become a teacher's best friend! The book is the perfect marriage to the writer's workshop lesson plan model, giving specific examples of writing for each necessary skill to be taught, and will surely enhance and support your mini-lessons. Implementing these activities will help both the student and teacher grow as writers. In 33 years of teaching language arts, I've never seen anything like it!" -- Donna Kortvelesy, MS, NBCT, professional development specialist, Millville Public Schools, Millville, New Jersey "Anytime I see a book by Mary Ellen Ledbetter, I grab hold of several copies for use in my classrooms and trainings. Teachers beg for them! In The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day , she has taken the objectives that are so hard for students to grasp and for educators to teach and has put together an easy-to-read, easy-to-teach book of amazing activities for everyday use." -- Janet Coleman, Ed. D., educational consultant and trainer, Fort Worth, Texas Writing Mini-Lessons That Won't Mean More Grading! The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day offers 180+ ready-to-use, reproducible activities that are designed to enhance writing skills of all secondary students. Written for teachers in grades 6-12, the book's classroom-tested activities are designed so that teachers aren't required to do any extra grading. Partnering techniques along with new oral assessments and peer-editing strategies not only reduce teacher paper load but provide immediate feedback for students. The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day is filled with writing prompts and sample passages written in student-friendly language that connect abstract literary concepts to students' own lives. In addition, the engaging examples serve as models to encourage students to create their own Quick Writes. Zusammenfassung Classroom-tested methods for boosting secondary students' writing skillsThe Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day offers teachers! homeschoolers! and parents 180 ready-to-use! reproducible activities that enhance writing skills in secondary students. Inhaltsverzeichnis What Makes This Book Different v About the Author xv Acknowledgments xvii Action Verbs as a Method of Elaboration 1 Adages 2 Adjectives as a Method of Elaboration 3 Adverbs as a Method of Elaboration: Practice # 1 4 Adverbs as a Method of Elaboration: Practice # 2 6 Allegory 7 Alliteration 8 Allusion 9 Analogy 10 Anecdote 11 Antagonist 12 Application and Synthesis 13 Assessing Prompts: Determining Mode of Writing 14 Assonance 15 Autobiographical Collage 16 Biography 17 Brainstorming 18 Brainstorming: Web 19 Brainstorming: Web Subpoints 20 Business Letter 21 Character Sketch 23 Characterization: Actions 24 Characterization: Contrasting Actions 25 Characterization: Appearance 26 Characterization: Environment 27 Characterization: Inner Thoughts and Feelings (First Person) 28 Characterization: Inner Thoughts and Feelings (Third Person Omniscient) 29 Characterization: Speech 30 Characterization: What Others Say 31 Clichés 32 Climax 33 Choppy Style 34
