Writing Intriguing Informational Pieces

Writing Intriguing Informational Pieces

Author: Sue Vander Hook

Publisher: Lerner Publications

Published: 2015-08

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 146778284X

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Want to write informative and interesting articles? Learn how to choose a solid subject, perform research, organize facts, get your first words on paper, and more! Whether you're writing about kangaroos, Kansas, kickball, or ketchup, we'll guide you through.


Writing Outstanding Opinion Pieces

Writing Outstanding Opinion Pieces

Author: Nancy Loewen

Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)

Published: 2015-08

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 1467779059

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Want to write an outstanding opinion piece? Follow these steps to write a commentary, letter to the editor, review, or other opinion piece. Learn how to select a topic, gather supporting facts, organize your thoughts, revise your work, and more!


Writing Powerful Persuasive Pieces

Writing Powerful Persuasive Pieces

Author: Nancy Loewen

Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 1467779067

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This book takes you through the steps of writing a persuasive piece from beginning to end.


Writing Notable Narrative Nonfiction

Writing Notable Narrative Nonfiction

Author: Sue Vander Hook

Publisher: Lerner Publications

Published: 2015-08-01

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 1467782939

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Have you ever wanted to write a true story? Maybe you have an interesting experience to share from your life or from someone in your family. Or perhaps you'd like to write about a famous person or a fascinating moment in history. This book will help you craft notable narrative nonfiction—appealing true stories. After you discover a topic, you'll move on to collecting facts and charting your course. Once you've written a rough draft, you'll learn how to revise your work and polish it into a great piece of writing. This book also offers examples, quotes, and short writing exercises to inspire you. Whether your goal is to tell your own story or someone else's, this book will help you bring the details to life.


501 Writing Prompts

501 Writing Prompts

Author: LearningExpress (Organization)

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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"This eBook features 501 sample writing prompts that are designed to help you improve your writing and gain the necessary writing skills needed to ace essay exams. Build your essay-writing confidence fast with 501 Writing Prompts!" --


Writing Fantastic Fiction

Writing Fantastic Fiction

Author: Jennifer Joline Anderson

Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)

Published: 2015-08

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 1467779083

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Outlines "steps of writing a story from beginning to end. Learn how to gather inspiration and develop a story's characters. Then visualize and organize your story's plot with a writing map. And after you've written a really rough draft, check out tips for revising your work"--Page 4 of cover.


Commonsense Composition

Commonsense Composition

Author: Crystle Bruno

Publisher: CK-12 Foundation

Published: 2012-05-08

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1935983733

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This textbook follows California Language Arts Standards for grades 9-12 to provide a generalized understanding of composition and to serve as a supplementary aid to high school English teachers.


Writing Thief

Writing Thief

Author: Ruth Culham

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-10-10

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1003842232

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Mediocre writers borrow. Great writers steal. --T.S. EliotWriting thieves read widely, dive deeply into texts, and steal bits and pieces from great texts as models for their own writing. Author Ruth Culham admits to being a writing thief'sand she wants you and your students to become writing thieves, too! In The Writing Thief: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing, Culham demonstrates a major part of good writing instruction is finding the right mentor texts to share with students. Within this book, you'll discover more than 90 excellent mentor texts, along with straight-forward activities that incorporate the traits of writing across informational, narrative, and argument modes. Chapters also include brief essays from beloved writing thieves such as Lester Laminack, David L. Harrison, Lisa Yee, Nicola Davies, Ralph Fletcher, Toni Buzzeo, Lola Schaefer, and Kate Messner, detailing the reading that has influenced their own writing. Culham's renowned easy-going style and friendly tone make this a book you'll turn to again and again as you coach your students to reach their full potential as deep, thoughtful readers and great writers. There's a writing thief in each of us when we learn how to read with a writer's eye!


Teach Writing Well

Teach Writing Well

Author: Ruth Culham

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-10-10

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1003842062

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Ask great writers what the key to writing well is and they will tell you revision. Author Ruth Culham, both a successful writer and writing teacher, understands the challenges elementary teachers face when teaching writing and revision and now shares her knowledge in Teach Writing Well: How to Assess Writing, Invigorate Instruction, and Rethink Revision. Divided into two parts, Culham’s book provides ways to teach that are both accessible to the teacher and student. You will find techniques to assess writing that are practical, and results driven. Inside you’ll discover: Culham’s traits of writing and how to use them to read and assess student work Ways to guide revision decisions using these traits as common language How to address challenges students may face within the different modes of writing (narrative, expository, and persuasive) Strategic lessons to teach the writer that scaffold students towards making their own craft decisions A chapter on mentor texts which can be used to model traits and key qualities for your students Teach Writing Well pulls best practices together and shows writing with fresh eyes.