Brighten Up Boring Beginnings and Other Quick Writing Lessons

Brighten Up Boring Beginnings and Other Quick Writing Lessons
Author: Laura Robb
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1999-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439073516

Students become better writers when they have the techniques at their fingertips. With this book, you'll have the ready-to-go mini-lessons and follow-up practice sheets that target the writing skills students need most. Combine sentences, cut out clutter, remedy run-ons, show-don't-tell, doctoring dialogue, punching up passive sentences, and more! Fully reproducible! Perfect for daily quick-writes! For use with Grades 4 & Up.

Literature-Based Mini-Lessons

Literature-Based Mini-Lessons
Author: Susan Lunsford
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439086820

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.

25 Terrific Literature Activities

25 Terrific Literature Activities
Author: Lori Licciardo-Musso
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1995
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780590599320

Easy, motivating activities take students "into," "through," and "beyond" literature. Students will love and learn from these classroom-tested response projects. With rubrics for assessing written responses. For use with Grades 4-8.

Literature-Based Mini-Lessons to Teach Writing

Literature-Based Mini-Lessons to Teach Writing
Author: Susan Lunsford
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1998-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780590433723

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.

Teaching with Favorite Newbery Books

Teaching with Favorite Newbery Books
Author: Lori Licciardo Musso
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1999
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780590019750

Contains engaging discussion questions, vocabulary builders, writing prompts, and great literature response activities.

Teaching Writing with Picture Books as Models

Teaching Writing with Picture Books as Models
Author: Rosanne Kurstedt
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439135160

Presents lessons designed to show teachers how to use picture books to teach writing skills to students in grades four through eight, and includes recommended reading lists.

Grammar Works!

Grammar Works!
Author: Jim Halverson
Publisher: Scholastic
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780590604208

Grade level: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, e, i, s, t.

Language Arts Mini-lessons

Language Arts Mini-lessons
Author: Joan Clemmons
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1995
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780590496438

Step-by-Step Skill-Builders for Your Classroom. make reading and writing more meaningful to children, with author studies! This photo-filled guide supports you through every step in the process: choosing author, nurturing independent readers, celebrating writers with innovative projects, setting up author visits, assessment, and more.