25 Mini-Lessons for Teaching Writing

25 Mini-Lessons for Teaching Writing
Author: Adele Fiderer
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1997
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780590209403

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.
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439063968

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.

Writing Strategies for All Primary Students

Writing Strategies for All Primary Students
Author: Janet C. Richards
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2011-02-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0470937203

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.

50 Writing Lessons That Work!

50 Writing Lessons That Work!
Author: Carol Rawlings Miller
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1999
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780590522120

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

What's Next for this Beginning Writer?

What's Next for this Beginning Writer?
Author: Janine Reid
Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1551381877

Answers questions teachers often ask about teaching writing to young children, and features a series of craft lessons, with step-by-step instructions, for writing workshops designed to take move children up the ladder of writing development.

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.

Getting to the Core of Writing: Essential Lessons for Every First Grade Student

Getting to the Core of Writing: Essential Lessons for Every First Grade Student
Author: Gentry, Richard
Publisher: Shell Education
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1618137891

Inspire students to develop as writers in the first grade classroom with these engaging and creative writing lessons. This classroom-tested resource shows positive results in students' writing and simplifies the planning of writing instruction. It contains detailed information on how to establish and manage daily Writer's Workshop and includes consistent, structured instruction to encourage students to actively participate in the writing process. Specific lessons to help students develop the traits of quality writing are also included. This resource develops college and career readiness skills and is aligned to today's standards.

Writing Whizardry

Writing Whizardry
Author: Maity Schrecengost
Publisher: Maupin House Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0929895452

Provide young writers with skills that expand their creativity and writer's craft vocabulary. Each self-contained lesson targets a specific technique or skill that teaches craft and author's devices, and encourages elaboration.Sixty mini-lessons give your students practice in applying the skills they need to write well-developed narrative and expository pieces. Best of all, each mini-lesson provides examples of polished writing and writing that need revision, as well as reference to other books to use as models -- all you need to teach show me writing effectively.

Getting to the Core of Writing: Essential Lessons for Every First Grade Student

Getting to the Core of Writing: Essential Lessons for Every First Grade Student
Author: Richard McNeel
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2012-06-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1425895026

This resource helps teachers to incorporate writing instruction in the first grade classroom as an essential element of literacy development while implementing best practices. As a classroom-tested resource, Getting to the Core of Writing shows positive results in students' writing and simplifies the planning of writing instruction. It assists teachers in becoming familiar with the Common Core State Standards of Writing and provides resources to support the implementation of these standards. The included ZIP file contains information on how to establish a daily writing workshop that includes consistent, structured instruction to engage students in the writing process. This resource was developed with Common Core State Standards as its foundation and is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.