Real-Life Writing Activities for Young Authors: Ready-to-Use Writing Process Activities for Grades 4-9 [Spiral-bound]

Cherlyn Sunflower (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 3, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0876284489 | ISBN-13: 978-0876284483

This terrific resource for elementary teachers of grades 4 9 will help you reinforce your language arts curriculum and meet state and national standards, and at the same time ties into units in science, health, math, social studies, and literature. Real-Life Writing Activities for Young Authors contains 40 complete model writing lessons and over 100 reproducibles that capture students? attention, build their writing skills, and teach them the writing process. Each lesson involves practical writing tasks students can easily relate to in their own lives from writing a movie review to writing an advice column solution letter. This useful resource is divided into five sections Descriptive Compositions, Directional Compositions, Persuasive Compositions, Narrative Compositions, and Poems & Songs. It outlines for you step-by-step lesson instructions, examples of what to write on the chalkboard, and suggestions for responding to students? writing in encouraging ways. Printed in a big 8 1/4" x 11" spiral-bound format, this idea-filled book folds flat for easy photocopying.

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This read-to-use resource provides 40 complete model writing lessons that capture students' attention, build their writing skills, and teach them a writing process (motivation, brainstorming, composing, revising, and publishing) that will serve them throughout their lives.

The lessons/activities are designed for young authors in grades 4 through 9 who are just learning the composing process, as well as for advanced writes who are ready to experiment with a variety of writing and speaking genres. They feature a wide range of practical writing tasks students can easily relate to their own lives.

For easy use, all materials are printed in a big 8-1/4" x 11" spiral-bound format that folds flat for photocopying of the writing formats and evaluative checklists that accompany many of the lessons, and are arranges developmentally into five sections. Here's just a sample of what each section offers:

1. DESCRIPTIVE COMPOSITIONS FOR YOUNG AUTHORS: "People/Fact Hunt" ... "Consumer Survey" ... "Captions" ... "Letter of Introduction to My Next Teacher" ... "Restaurant Review Checklist" ... "Horoscope"
2. DIRECTIONAL COMPOSITIONS FOR YOUNG AUTHORS: "Advice to Next Years Class" ... "Treasure map Directions" ... "Friendship Recipe" ... "Cheer-Up Checklist" ... "Medical Guide" ... "Advice Column Solution Letter"
3. PERSUASIVE COMPOSITIONS FOR YOUNG AUTHORS: "Apology/Apology Note" ... "Travel Brochure" ... "Movie/Video Review" ... "Sympathy Message" ... "Bill of Rights" ... "Letter of Complaint" ... "Eulogy"
4. NARRATIVE COMPOSITIONS FOR YOUNG AUTHORS: "Good News/Bad News Tale" ... "Mystery/Whodunit"
5. POEMS & SONGS FOR YOUNG AUTHORS: "Simple Chant" ... "Five-Line Poem" ... " Comparison Poem" ... "Auto-Bio Poem" ... "Modern Nursery Rhymes"

All lessons provide step-by-step instructions, including alternative motivators, examples of what to say to elicit student' response and what to write on the chalkboard, and suggestions for responding to students' writing in a way that will encourage them.

You'll also find the lessons are ideally flexible. You may follow the steps in each Real-Life Writing lessons just as described or add, omit, and/or change parts to fit your student' knowledge, skills, or interests and/or your curriculum needs.

About the Author

Cherlyn Sunflower, B.A., M.Ed., PH.D. is Associate Professor of Education at Moorhead State University in Minnesota where she teaches elementary language arts methods courses. She also taught grades K-6 and resource room in the Austin, Texas, schools. Dr. Sunflower is the author of 75 Creative Ways to Publish Students' Writings, URICA - Using Reading in Creative Activities, and LATTS - Learning Aids and Teaching Tools as well as many journal articles. She resides in Moorhead, MN.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 457 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass (October 3, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0876284489
• ISBN-13: 978-0876284483
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,851,796 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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