Writing

Making magazines is fun and easy – and this marvellous guide offers advice every step of the way. Learn how to write 5-star reviews and intriguing articles, make giggle-inducing comics and zines, showcase your artistic skills and much more. Includes links to specially selected websites for inspiration, hints and tips.

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Write about My World can be used after Write about Me #2312 or on its own as a prelude to the Just Write series.

The drawing activities in Write about My World by Elsie Wilmerding continue to help children bridge the gap between thinking and talking about an idea and writing about it. Children broaden their choice of topics as they observe the world around them. Like Write about Me , the book features large spaces for drawing, student-centric illustrations, thematic word banks, and steps that lead young writers to add details to their writing and make content area connections. Students will find Words I Use When I Write a good tool for expanding their writing vocabulary . The book also offers an introduction to journals as a way to capture observations and possible writing ideas.  .

Some writing fundamentals such as kinds of sentences, capitalization, and punctuation are taught. All books in the series have illustrations by George Ulrich that lead students into writing with age-appropriate visuals.

Features

• • Focuses on the students and their expanding surroundings and interests (school, community, outdoors, going places
• ) • Encourages the use of pictures to spark ideas for writing
• • Encourages students to expand upon their pictures through writing
• • Promotes use of detail and description in writing through word banks and revision
• • Leads up to writing stories with the basic Beginning-Middle-End format • Introduces journal writing
• • Teaches some grammar basics

Grade 1 From EPS

See also #3904 Teachers Guide for Write About Me and Write About My World

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The Teacher's Guide for both Write about Me #2312 and Write about My World #2312 suggests ways of introducing writing to the youngest students. The Guide also includes extension activities around the topics. The same Word Banks that appear in the student book are in the Guide for convenient reference. The Guide contains 12 book lists with titles directly related to the topics for student writing. Learn More

The drawing activities in Write about Me by Elsie Wilmerding help children bridge the gap between thinking and talking about an idea and writing about it.

Children build their writing skills as they develop ideas that have personal meaning to them.

The book features large spaces for drawing, student-centric illustrations, thematic word banks, and steps that lead young writers to add details to their writing and make content area connections.

Features

• Focuses on the student and his or her immediate surroundings and interests (family, favorites, neighborhood, school)

• Encourages the use of pictures to spark ideas for writing

• Encourages students to expand upon their pictures through writing

• Promotes use of detail and description in writing through word banks

• Leads up to writing stories with the basic Beginning-Middle-End format

• Coordinates with common introductory science unit about the senses

• Coordinates with common introductory social studies unit

"All about Me"About Just Write: Help students become confident, expressive writers

. This classroom-tested resource guides students through the writing process from initial idea to final edited and published narrative.

See also #3904 Teachers Guide for Write About Me #2312 and Write About My World #2313

Grade 1 From EPS

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Step-by-step guided lessons. Students brainstorm adjectives, nouns, verbs, and where-and-when phrases, then use them to expand a simple sentence. Includes 15 lessons, teaching ideas, reproducible forms, writing center, and bulletin board. 64 pages. Grades 1-3. From Evan-Moor. Learn More

Open-Ended Writing Activities for Children By Linda Polon. Open-ended story starters make writing stories seem like irresistible fun. "Look at the picture and write a short story with three or more sentences. Write a title for your story. Do not forget to color the picture!" Actual directions are a bit more specific—some add word banks, some require using commas or an exclamation point, some supply a first or last sentence, some suggest writing the story as a postcard to a friend—to challenge young writers in engaging ways. Each book offers more than 80 story starters. Grades 1–6. 8½" x 11". Good Year. 96 pages each. ©1998. Learn More

More than 80 fun-filled, open-ended story starters get children writing with ease! Each story starter is keyed to a specific writing skill such as adjectives, pronouns, contractions, and adverbs. A grammar mini-lesson at the beginning of each story starter helps students review those composition skills. Includes lively free writing topics as well. Learn More

For seventh grade skills and up, Wordsmith is the perfect companion to Learning Language Arts Through Literature. For young people who want to improve their writing skills, step-by-step instructions are provided that will help any writer improve his techniques. The introduction provides a brief review of grammar followed by instruction on building stronger sentences, exercise in descriptive and narrative writing, creating dialogue, story writing, and writing from a particular point of view. Plus, the essential skills of every good writer, practice in proofreading and revising. From Common Sense Press. Learn More

Do you wish you could add some EXTRA MAGIC to your stories? This book is packed full of words to help with creating characters, setting scenes, and writing EXCITING STORIES!

There’s also plenty of space to build your own word bank. Open this book and enter the WONDERFUL WORLD OF WORDS!

8 Years & up

96 pages

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Whether you want to dash off a limerick, ponder a sonnet or plot an epic poem, this write-in activity book is here to help. Each page is bursting with tips and inspiration for writing all kinds of poems – and inventing brand new styles too. With links to websites where you can listen to many of the poems in this book, and find more helpful writing tips.

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Usborne Key Skills introduces important educational concepts and reinforces learning, with lots of opportunities to practice the essential skills needed to progress at each stage. Each title includes playful quizzes, simple, approachable notes, as well as a handy gate-fold practice page and hidden notes for grown-ups.

Using the wipe-clean pen provided, children will be able to practice again and again until they are able to master the skills covered in this advanced pack.

Math skills included: Fractions, Tenths, Adding and subtracting fractions, Fraction walls, Ordering fractions, Equivalent fractions, Telling the time.

English skills included: Indefinite articles, Word families, clauses & conjunctions, Adverbs & prepositions, Quotation marks, Present perfect tense, Writing paragraphs, Spelling prefixes & suffixes, Consonant blends and word endings, More homophones

 Intermediate # 12959 and Introduction # 12862.

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Preparing Communicators for Collegiate Success

Author: Andrew Pudewa

EXTRA STUDENT MATERIALS ONLY—NOT A COMPLETE COURSE. Purchase this binder and student packet if you already own the necessary Teacher’s Manual and have access to the accompanying URW video course. This product contains a complete set of student materials for extra students who are watching the University-Ready Writing video course in a group or classroom. The binder and student packet includes a 3-ring student binder with four tabs for organizing student work and a packet of handouts with source texts, checklists, and more!

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Children will love to practice writing letters, shapes, lines and more! The portable board has a write & wipe window so it can be used over and over again along with a place to hold standard 8.5” x 11” and A4 paper and the included dry-erase marker.

Educational Benefits

• Learning Style: Visual, Tactile

• Skill Development: Letter formation, Letter recognition, shape recognition, Fine motor skills, Tripod grasp, Eye-hand coordination, Motor planning

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Thinking in Threes. This practical resource helps students see the importance of "the rules of three" in writing successful essays. The activities in this book give students essay-writing strategies organized in easy-to-remember groups of three. It starts by pointing out the power of three and how it is used in everything from childhood stories to famous speeches to learning strategies and shows how using sets of three in your writing will make it stronger. It also gives guidelines for different aspects of writing, all with just three rules to remember for each aspect of an essay or paper. This is a great resource for providing easy-to-remember tools and tips to equip students for better essay or composition writing, be it a long-term paper, a short essay, or a timed writing exam. An “Extras” section in the back of the book gives specific tips for students who are taking a timed writing test for a state mandated test or the SAT. Additional planning sheets and examples are also provided for this purpose. Reproducible for classroom use, the exercises can be completed directly on the pages. 106 pgs, pb, answer key included in the back. Grades 8-adult. Learn More

Develop students' writing skills and prepare them for the types of writing they will need for college and career readiness: opinion/argumentative, informative/explanatory, and narrative writing.

The in-depth units in this book provide step-by-step lessons that focus on these specific types of writing styles and provide examples and strategies to work through the writing process from opening sentence to conclusion.

160 pages each.

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Develop students' writing skills and prepare them for the types of writing they will need for college and career readiness: opinion/argumentative, informative/explanatory, and narrative writing.

The in-depth units in this book provide step-by-step lessons that focus on these specific types of writing styles and provide examples and strategies to work through the writing process from opening sentence to conclusion.

160 pages each.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Teacher Created Resources

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Reading age ‏ : ‎ 5 years and up

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.3 x 10.8 inches

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The Write Stuff Grade 2 (Paperback)(11"x8.5"x0.35") by Tracie I. Heskett

Features:

*Explores Narrative, Opinion/Argumentative, and Informative/Explanatory Writing

*Introduces Diverse Writing Selections for Modeling and Analysis

*Targets Essential Paragraph Features and Critical Essay Components

*Encourages Feedback Through Peer Reviews, Self-Evaluations, and Teacher Input

*Lexile Levels and Standards Correlations Provided

160 Pages

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The Paragraph Book 4 TE. Strategies for struggling writers. The Paragraph Book provides effective strategies to guide students through the writing process from the ground up. Book 4 focuses on classifying, Comparing, Cause and Effect and Persuasive. Grades 5-8+. For use with The Paragraph Book 4 Student (item #0239)

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The Paragraph Book 4. Strategies for struggling writers. The Paragraph Book provides effective strategies to guide students through the writing process from the ground up. Book 4 focuses on classifying, Comparing, Cause and Effect and Persuasive. Grades 5-8+ Teacher's Guide available. (item #0240)

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The Creative Writer: Level Four. Building on the skills taught in the first three levels, the The Creative Writer, Level Four: Becoming a Writer guides young writers from idea to polished short story or poem in a single volume. Becoming a Writer also walks students through the transition from study to practice, broadening the series' focus by discussing the writing life--how to find and sumit literary journals, how to develop discipline, and how to persevere in the face of rejection. Designed for older students, the readings increase in maturity as well. Parents may wish to preview selections for younger students using this curriculum. The Creative Writer Level 4: Becoming a Writer will provide guide students towards becoming a true writer. 36 weeks of instruction, divided between fiction and poetry. 240 pages, softcover. Grades 8-10. From Peace Hill Press. Learn More

The Creative Writer, Level Three builds on the foundation laid in earlier volumes. Learn to use the fiction toolbox of plot, character, setting, point of view, and dialogue with even more assurance and skill; study the advanced application of meter, rhyme, line breaks, subject, and word choice in poetry. Each volume contains directions and instructions for the developing writer,a s well as detailed guidance for the mentor or teacher. Exercises scaffold on each other, building towards the completion of full creative pieces in both fiction and poetry. Grade recommendation: 7-9. From Peace Hill Press. Learn More

Grades 7-9. The Creative Writer: Level Two Essential Ingredients. The meat and potatoes of the writer's craft Learn to write riveting fiction by mastering the five vital parts of a story: plot, character dialogue, point of view, and setting. Study the five essential elements of spellbinding poetry: line breaks, rhyme, meter sound, sound, and word choice. Then blend it all together. The Creative Writer, Level Two guides you through an innovative, compelling series of exercises, each one designed to build your skill in the essential ingredients of fiction and poetry. Then, author Boris Fishman sets you free to create your own recipe for gripping ficiton and spellbinding poetry. Use as a follow-up to the inital volume, The Creative Writer, Level One: Five-Finger Exercises. Or begin with Level Two as a more advanced introduction to imaginative writing. Each volume contains directions and instruction for the developing writer, as well as guidance for the mentor or teacher. From Peace Hill Press. Learn More

p>In this new middle-grades creative-writing curriculum, young writers of fiction and poetry learn vital skills such as point of view, characterization, plotting, dialogue, and description. Simple but innovative exercises encourage young writers to strengthen their vocabulary and become aware of the patterns of sentences. The Creative Writer provides 36 weeks of lessons divided between fiction (organized as weeks 1-18) and poetry (weeks 1-18). Unlike most "how to write" books, The Creative Writer is designed to be used in a mentor/student relationship, with teaching, guidance, and evaluation tips provided for the mentor or teacher. The Creative Writer, Level One can be used as a complement to Peace Hill Press's non-fiction writing book, Writing With Skill, or it can be used on its own.

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