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Over 200 Tips and Ideas to Strengthen Writing Skills
It's a jungle out there, but these practical writing activities will guide students around the pitfalls and get them on the path to becoming better writers. The book covers narrative writing, expository writing, persuasive writing, story starters, story spinners, word and picture prompts, story enders, letter writing, and poetry. The book also presents ideas for journals, portfolios, graphic organizers, rubrics, and more. It contains a mini-thesaurus of commonly-used words that can be reproduced and kept in students' notebooks as a handy reference tool.
It's a jungle out there, but these practical writing activities will guide students around the pitfalls and get them on the path to becoming better writers. A Guide to Better Writing presents ideas for journals, portfolios, graphics organizers, rubrics, and more. It contains a mini-thesaurus of commonly used words that students can keep in their notebooks as a handy reference tool. The book is divided into the following sections.
- Narrative Writing – includes methods and ideas for writing adventure stories, animal stories, fairy tales, just for-fun stories, "just so" stories, mysteries, science fictions, and tall tales.
- Expository Writing – contains tips on Venn diagrams, comparison-and-contrast essays, newspaper reporting, biographies, and more.
- Persuasive Writing – covers writing editorials and essays that persuade and includes a list of persuasive writing prompts.
- Story Starters – helps students who can't think of anything to write about by providing an opening lead to jump start their writing.
- Story Spinners – provides patterns for making story wheels that match pictures and words in wacky combinations for creative writing.
- Word and Picture Prompts – presents four words and pictures per page for students to incorporate into a story.
- Story Enders – gives students the conclusion of a short story and challenges them to write the events leading up to this ending.
- Letter Writing – teacher students how to write a wide variety of letters such as friendly letter, business letters, thank-you notes, complaint letters, and more.
- Poetry – provides a wide variety of ides for both rhymed and unrhymed poems such as limericks, diamond poems, magazine poems, mix-and-match poems, and lots more.
A Guide to Better Writing will help guide your students to become more creative and confident writers. |
