The Writing Teacher’s Activity-a-Day: 180 Reproducible Prompts and Quick-Writes for the Secondary Classroom (JB-Ed: 5 Minute FUNdamentals)

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Classroom-tested methods for boosting secondary students’ writing skills

The Writing Teacher’s Activity-a-Day offers teachers, homeschoolers, and parents 180 ready-to-use, reproducible activities that enhance writing skills in secondary students. Based on Ledbetter’s extensive experience consulting to language arts teachers and school districts across the country, the classroom-tested activities included in this book teach students key literary and writing terms like allegory, elaboration, irony, personification, propaganda, voice, and more–and provide them with engaging examples that serve as models for their own Quick Writes.

Contains writing prompts and sample passages in student-friendly language that connects abstract literary concepts to students’ own livesWritten by popular workshop presenter and veteran educator Mary Ellen LedbetterOffers a user-friendly, value-packed resource for teaching writing skills

Designed for English language arts teachers in grades 6-12, tutors, parents, learning specialists, homeschoolers, and consultants.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Jossey-Bass
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 7, 2010
Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0470461322
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0470461327
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.3 x 0.6 x 9.1 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #23,116 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #60 in Reading & Writing Materials
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