25 Mini-Lessons for Teaching Writing

25 Mini-Lessons for Teaching Writing

Author: Adele Fiderer

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780590209403

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Each ten-minute lesson in this guide offers proven methods for strengthening a wide variety of writing skills. Students learn good writing techniques such as finding strong verbs, using details, crafting great endings, selecting good topics, and much more.


25 Quick Mini-Lessons to Teach Narrative Writing

25 Quick Mini-Lessons to Teach Narrative Writing

Author: Dave Leochko

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780439063968

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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.


Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing

Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing

Author: Chris Jennings Dixon

Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13:

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Why do students often graduate from high school unprepared for college writing? And what can we do about it? These are the questions that a group of classroom teachers set out to explore. Over the course of seven years, a group of middle, high school, college, and university teachers participated in a federally funded writing coalition project to implement innovative approaches to teaching writing. Together they developed this series of lesson plans designed to make writing both fun and an integral part of diverse curricula. "Practical" is the recurrent motif of each teaching strategy. Developed by real teachers in real classrooms, the lessons are grouped into seven categories: writing process, portfolios, literature, research, grammar, writing on demand, and media. Each lesson follows a standard format that includes purpose of the activity; necessary preparation; required props and materials; process and procedure for implementation; instructional pointers and/or possible pitfalls; and reflections from the teacher that provide "behind the scenes" insights.


Writing Strategies for All Primary Students

Writing Strategies for All Primary Students

Author: Janet C. Richards

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-02-08

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0470937203

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A guide for teaching all your students the skills they need to be successful writers The 25 mini-lessons provided in this book are designed to develop students’ self-regulated writing behaviors and enhance their self-perceived writing abilities. These foundational writing strategies are applicable and adaptable to all primary students: emergent, advanced, English Language Learners, and struggling writers. Following the SCAMPER (Screen and assess, Confer, Assemble materials, Model, Practice, Execute, Reflect) mini-lesson model devised by the authors, the activities show teachers how to scaffold the writing strategies that students need in order to take control of their independent writing. Reveals helpful writing strategies, including making associations, planning, visualizing, accessing cues, using mnemonics, and more Offers ideas for helping students revise, check, and monitor their writing assignments Explains the author's proven SCAMPER model that is appropriate for students in grades K-3 Let Richards and Lassonde—two experts in the field of childhood education—guide you through these proven strategies for enhancing young children's writing skills.


Literature-Based Mini-Lessons to Teach Writing

Literature-Based Mini-Lessons to Teach Writing

Author: Susan Lunsford

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 1998-10

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780590433723

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Using favorite picturebooks for her mini-lessons models, teacher Susan Lunsford shares 15 easy-to-do writing lessons. Mini-lessons include: Where do story ideas come from? Great First Lines, Exploring Settings, Painting Pictures with Words, Writing a Complete Story, and Great Endings. Her teacher-student dialogues make it all easy to replicate in your own classroom. Each mini-lessons includes follow-up strategies and activities and picturebook suggestions. Writing conference and management tips too! For use with Grades 1-3.


Writing Mini-Lessons for Kindergarten

Writing Mini-Lessons for Kindergarten

Author: Dorothy P. Hall

Publisher: Four Blocks (a Division of Carson-Dellosa)

Published: 2003-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780887241192

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This resource demonstates a range of mini-lessons for the writing block of the Four Block Literacy Model.


50 Writing Lessons That Work!

50 Writing Lessons That Work!

Author: Carol Rawlings Miller

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780590522120

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Provides lessons and models to help teach writing to elementary school students.


Awesome Art Projects that Spark Super Writing

Awesome Art Projects that Spark Super Writing

Author: Jan Wiezorek

Publisher: Teaching Resources

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780545305556

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This collection of motivating art projects features 25 sure-fire ways to erase writer's block--and meet writing standards. Creativity-boosting activities, such as Found-Art Superheroes, The Room of My Dreams, Canned Art, and Shakespeare at the Movies, help students craft a coherent story, develop and support a main idea, build a persuasive argument, describe a scene using precise words, and much more. Using the art they create, students have a concrete visual idea and a high-interest starting point from which to begin writing--and their ideas flow onto the page. Teaching material includes mini-lessons, step-by-step directions, cross-curricular strategies, rubrics, and photographs of student samples. For use with Grades 4-8.


Night of the Veggie Monster

Night of the Veggie Monster

Author: George McClements

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2008-04-01

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 1599900610

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Every Tuesday night, while his parents try to enjoy their dinner, a boy turns into a monster the moment a pea touches his lips.