Students of all learning styles are motivated to turn a picture into a thousand words with these unique prompts. From funny cartoons to inspiring masterpieces, each piece in this collection sparks a young writer's imagination. Grades: 3/5.
Help students gain writing confidence with this comprehensive collection of easy, super-engaging lessons that invite them to describe a dream, write a mystery story, create a movie review, compose a business letter, and so many more! Everything you need is here: Complete how-to's, quick mini-lessons, pre-writing graphic organizers, and reproducible assessment forms. A great way to prepare kids to shine on the standardized tests! For use with Grades 3-6.
Even reluctant readers love these exciting and entertaining activities that teach grammar rules, expand vocabularies, promote reading comprehension, and much more. A big, creative collection that will surely help boost standardized test scores, this instructor book features 50 motivating reproducibles that reach and teach every learner. Grades: 3-6.
In this collection of engaging mini-lessons and companion reproducible pages, teacher Dave Leochko shares his favorite writing lessons--ones that have really helped his students become better writers. The classroom-tested lessons in this book take young writers through all the steps of the writing process, including getting an idea, revising a story, and conferencing with other writers, while also targeting specific skills, such as using punctuation correctly, varying sentence structure, making characters believable, and developing a plot. The reproducible pages feature activities that let students apply new skills, as well as writing tips and strategies they can collect and use a reference. For use with Grades 4-8.
Gives practical tips for helping students get started on the blank page, and includes lessons for creative writing projects such as advertising campaigns, illustrated picture books, mysteries, and sportswriting.
Journal-writing time becomes a fun-filled exercise with these fresh, fun, and skill-building topics. Invite kids to write about the antics of the classroom hamster or dealing with a toddler at the mall, and they'll be eager to get started. Activities include Little Paper Spelling Lessons, Help me Books, Chalkboarding Circled Words, Guess My Rule, and many more. Grades 1-2.
A collection of writers of upper elementary and middle school books discuss their work, each author includes a list of selected titles, words from the author, and a list of selected titles, words from the author, and a writing activity for you and your students.
This book contains strategies, activities, ideas, recommendations, and sample author studies designed to help you and your students in launching author studies of your own.
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.