Looking for great ideas that will help your students become better and more imaginative writers? Everything you need to teach them how to tell a story—whether it's fiction or nonfiction—is here: literary models, pre-writing activities, mini-lessons on plot development and story resolution, editing and revising tips, plus rubrics and evaluation ideas. As students complete fun, yet challenging writing explorations, they'll be setting goals for their writing and learning how to target their writing for a specific audience. Includes reproducibles, checklists, and evaluation forms. 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 review is from: Narrative Writing (Grades 4-8) (Paperback)
Not quite what I expected, but it is ok. Talks about journal writing, writing narratives about other people and about literature, writing stories, and composition skills (verbs, nouns, transitions, ett.) It is very brief, and doesn't really present any new ideas.
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Almost every day, students narrate aloud many stories based on their personal experiences, often beginning with tried-and-true story-openers like these: "Guess what happened to me on the way to school!" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mental movies, writing folder, class brainstorm, transitional words, story steps Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Writing Prompt, Composition Skills, Writing Folder, Lone Ranger, Observation Diary, Reading Tree New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Almost every day, students narrate aloud many stories based on their personal experiences, often beginning with tried-and-true story-openers like these: "Guess what happened to me on the way to school!" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mental movies, writing folder, class brainstorm, transitional words, story steps Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Writing Prompt, Composition Skills, Writing Folder, Lone Ranger, Observation Diary, Reading Tree New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Wright Brothers by Hb on page 27
- My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier on page 32
- The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales (Signet Classics) by Edgar Allan Poe on page 27
- Animal Poems by Ladybird Books in Back Matter
- The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman on page 27
- Stretching Students' Vocabulary (Teaching Strategies) by Karen D'Angelo Bromley on page 111, and Back Matter
- Differentiated Instruction: Different Strategies for Different Learners by Char Forsten in Back Matter
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