Ready-To Use Sentence Activities - Couverture souple

Umstatter, Jack

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ISBN 10 : 0876284837 ISBN 13 : 9780876284834

Editeur : Centre for Applied Research in Education, 1999

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Ready to Use Sentence Activity: Vol 2 A practical series that provides over 540 stimulating, ready-to-use activity sheets to help teach and reinforce writing skills in middle/junior high and senior high school students, grades 6-12. Each unit in the series focuses on a different area of writing skills and is complete and self-contained, including 90 reproducible activities in a variety of formats, a brief teacher's guide to effective ... Full description

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This resource is one of six units in the Writing Skills Curriculum Library, a practical series that provides over 540 stimulating, ready–to–use activity sheets to help you teach and reinforce writing skills in middle/junior high and senior high school students, grades 6–12.

Each unit in the series focuses on a different area of writing skills and is complete and self–contained, including 90 reproducible activities in a variety of formats, a brief teacher′s guide to effective use of the activities, and full answer keys. The activities can be used in any order in any developmental or corrective writing program to meet the specific needs of individual students, small groups, or an entire class.

For quick selection, each unit includes a detailed table of contents listing the major skills/topics covered in that unit followed by the activities for teaching and reinforcing each skill. Here′s just an overview of what you′ll find in each unit:

Unit 1 READY–TO–USE WORD ACTIVITIES provides 90 activity sheets to help students learn the importance of word selection and precision in the writing process. Topics covered include connotation and denotation, roots, prefixes and suffixes, synonyms and antonyms, and expressions that heighten students′ awareness of making correct word choices.

Unit 2 READY–TO–USE SENTENCE ACTIVITIES presents 90 activities that involve students in the essentials of sentence construction, subjects and predicates, complements phrases, clauses, types of sentences, agreement, and mechanics as well as problems of wordiness, transition, ambiguity, and more.

Unit 3 READY–TO–USE PARAGRAPH WRITING ACTIVITIES features 90 stimulating activities that lead students through the steps of writing clear, convincing paragraphs. Topics range from brainstorming techniques and topic sentences to using supporting idea and introducing, organizing, and concluding the paragraph.

Unit 4 READY–TO–USE PREWRITING & ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES offers 90 reproducible activities that explore ways of gathering and using information intelligently. Activities cover a wide range of topics such as information sources, categorizing, topic and subtopic summaries, outlines, and term paper ideas and formats.

Unit 5 READY–TO–USE REVISION & PROOFREADING ACTIVITIES presents 90 high–interest activities to guide students through the problem areas of writing including verb tense, words often confused, superfluity, issues of clarity, and proofreading techniques used by professional writers.

Unit 6 READY–TO–USE PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES includes 90 activities that expose students to different types of writing such as literary analysis, stories and sketches, narratives, reviews, letters, journal entries, newspaper articles, character analysis, stories and sketches, narratives, reviews, letters, journal entries, newspaper articles, character analysis, dialogue writing, essays, and commercials.

Together, the six units in the Writing Skills Curriculum Library give you an unparalleled store of tested, ready–to–use exercises for building skills in al aspects of writing. They will help your students learn the elements of effective writing and enjoy the experience at the same time.

Présentation de l'éditeur

A practical series that provides over 540 stimulating, ready–to–use activity sheets to help teach and reinforce writing skills in middle/junior high and senior high school students, grades 6–12. Each unit in the series focuses on a different area of writing skills and is complete and self–contained, including 90 reproducible activities in a variety of formats, a brief teacher′s guide to effective use of the activities and full answer keys. The activities can be used in any order in any developmental or corrective writing program to meet the specific needs of individual students, small groups, or an entire class.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Centre for Applied Research in Education
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0876284837
• ISBN 13: 9780876284834
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible