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.
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Dave Leochko is a teacher at the Victoria-Albert school in Winnipeg, Canada. This is his first book from Scholastic Teaching Resources.
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Writing process has been given much attention lately, but many people-especially parents-wonder how this style of writing is different from the writing students have always done in school. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Where It All Happens, Boy Saves Town, Finishing Touch, Proofreader's Challenges, Putting Together New!
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Writing process has been given much attention lately, but many people-especially parents-wonder how this style of writing is different from the writing students have always done in school. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
interlocking stories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Where It All Happens, Boy Saves Town, Finishing Touch, Proofreader's Challenges, Putting Together New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Tall Tales by Karen Day on page 18
- Snow White in New York by Fiona French on page 18
- Animal Poems by Ladybird Books in Back Matter
- Snow White by McGraw-Hill Childrens Publishing on page 18
- "Could Be Worse!" by James Stevenson on page 18
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