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Writing Process Activities Kit

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As an English teacher, I had tried to institute peer review into my classes but was never successful until I read this book. Brandvik provides 75 sequential writing lesson plans that built a writing community in my classroom. My students now know how to serve as peer editiors for their fellow students.

A good portion of the book's assignments focus on narrative type writing though some space is devoted to poetry writing and word play. I was wishing for some of the lessons to focus on other modes--persuasive, expository, etc. However, after teaching a couple of units from Brandvik's book, I was able to apply her techniques to my own units. Her modeling was a good teacher!

I cannot say enough about this book! Last summer, I was asked to teach a creative writing class for incoming high school freshmen. I panicked--until I found this manual. What a lifesaver! Filled with fabulous ideas and neatly organized into 75 lessons (I use 3 per day during 2 hour classes), this book is easy to use, and my students love it. It is challenging enough for gifted writers, but it encourages reluctant writers as well. All of them have fun. Students move through journaling, freewriting, revisions, even publishing booklets of their own poetry and prose. Solid learning; encouragement of peer editing; great progression of difficulty levels. You will not be disappointed in this book. A lot of hard work went into it--thanks to Ms. Brandvik.

I feel like I owe the authors a part of my salary; I rely on this resouce so much. It's vey easy to use, effective, and the students love the activities.

I've found the book to be invaluable in the classroom. I have only used the creative writing section and the poetry writing section thus far, but both sections have saved me countless hours of research and preparation. The book was recommended by our department chair who uses it in the upper grades -- I teach 9th and 10th grade English. The book is definitely one I would recommend and one I will turn to time and time again for ideas.

This book takes you step by step in teaching writing. If you have no clue, just follow lesson by lesson and read the instructions. You can't go wrong. The only other advice I can give you is to plan ahead and know what you will be teaching so that you can answer all the questions the students will have for you.

A great kit for beginers in the process of writing very meaningful for EFL teachers