This complete resource includes great activities, models, and reproducibles for helping students develop expository writing skills. Offers complete how-to's for presenting ideas in an orderly way, supporting ideas with essential facts, and writing to a specific audience. Includes independent learning ideas, reinforcement activities, and self-assessment pages. For use with Grades 4-8.
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Tara McCarthy, an author who lives in Woodstock, NY, has written several books for Scholastic Teaching Resources. Her other titles include Teaching Literary Elements, Teaching Genre, The Middle Ages, Multicultural Myths and Legends, Multicultural Fables and Fairy Tales, 150 Thematic Writing Activities, and Literature-Based Geography.
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This book captures the emotions of expository writing. It really motivates my writing because I am a sensitive guy. I think that this book does not give new and interesting ways to write expository papers. If you are looking for a general idea this is the book for you.
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For each student, make a copy of An Invitation (page 20). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
publishing options, topic sentence, supporting facts, expository writing, ask partners Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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For each student, make a copy of An Invitation (page 20). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
publishing options, topic sentence, supporting facts, expository writing, ask partners Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Birch Lane, Family Festival Calendar, Fourth of July, Billie Wind, Main Street, American History, Book Brief, School Fair New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat on page 65
- Animal Poems by Ladybird Books in Back Matter
- Stretching Students' Vocabulary (Teaching Strategies) by Karen D'Angelo Bromley on page 111, and Back Matter
- Making the Grade: Everything Your 4th Grader Needs to Know by Robert R. Roth on page 52, and page 60
- The Crucible Literature Guide (Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned Teaching Guide) by Kristen Bowers in Back Matter
- Making the Grade: Everything Your 3rd Grader Needs to Know by Micki Pflug on page 68
- Differentiated Instruction: Different Strategies for Different Learners by Char Forsten in Back Matter
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