Over 265 stimulating activities that "turn students on" to writing, while guiding their practice in the writing process - from prewriting and brainstorming, to first draft, revisions, and a final draft. Students get specific examples and step-by-step instructions that show them exactly how to write paragraphs, essays, letters, journals, and more. Best of all, students can complete all of these reproducible activities independently, with minimal direction from you!

 

. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 304 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Pearson Education (US) .

Carol H. Behrman has taught writing to students in grades 5--8 for more than 20 years. Author of numerous nonfiction books for children and young adults, she has conducted workshops on the writing process for students and teachers. In addition, Ms. Behrman is the author of three other resources on the writing process published by The Center, Hooked On Writing! (1990) Writing Activities for Every Month of the School Year (1997) and Writing Skills Problem Solver (1999).

This book has the following chapters: Preface. About This Resource. Unit One: Playing With Language. Examples: "The Timid Turtle (Fill--In Story)," "Contrary Mary," "Icky Squirmy," "Additional Alliteration," "Creating Critters". Unit Two: Paragraph Writing. Examples: "Scrambled Paragraphs," "Captain Hook," "Paragraph Seeds," "Stop That Chop," "Too, Too Much". Unit Three: Simple Essays. Examples: "I Didn't Know That Was There!" "One Hour in a Supermarket," "A Look at Me, Ten Years From Now". Unit Four: More Complex Essays. Examples: "Great Friends," "Who Collects Stamps?" "The Amazing Man From Milwaukee," "A Perfect World". Unit Five: Simple Letters. Examples: "Friends Across the Miles," "Guess What I'm Doing," "Dear Owner," "Dear Twentieth--Century Folks". Unit Six: Business Letters. Examples: "You've Got a Complaint!" "I Can Help," "Dear Box Number," "Team Business Manager," "Summer Cash". Unit Seven: Creative Writing. Examples: "Building Blocks," "Feeling Fine," "Say What?" "Irresistible Beginnings," "A Day in the Life of the Sillies" Unit Eight: Variety Pack. Examples: "Rhyme Time," "Feeling Happy/Feeling Sad," "Chasing the News," "Classroom Flash," "An Interview With Who?"