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Writing Whizardry: 60 Mini-Lessons to Teach Elaboration and Writer's Craft

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In Writing Whizardry: 60 Mini-Lessons To Teach Elaboration & Writer's Craft, Maity Schrecengost provides classroom teachers with sixty self-contained "mini-lessons" targeting a specific writer's techniques or elaboration skills, as well as teaching the tips, tricks and techniques for successful writing. Illuminated with examples of polished writing and writing that needs revision, Writing Whizardry enables students to practice the skills they need to write clear and well-elaborated narrative and expository writing. Writing Whizardry is an ideal classroom curriculum supplement and is highly recommended for home schooling studies as well.

This book is fabulous!! We just started "The Writer's Workshop" at our school. The 'Writing Whizardry' has helped me start and stay on track. It has an example lesson and extra resourse on the bottom of each page. If you're having difficulty finding fun ways to teach various writing activities, this is the book for you.

Whizard Whizardry is great for preraring mini lessons for any middle school writing class. The lessons are very teacher friendly and can be used and reused throughout the year to review writing craft. I would consider this book a must have for any writing teacher.

I am a teacher in LAUSD and use this instead of some of the literacy programs we use. A very easy to use system.

Lots of great mini-lessons for teaching writing. I like the format of "non-example"/"example" to explicitly show students what you want from their writing. I'd recommend this to middle school language arts teachers.

This is a great book for getting beginning writer's craft lesson ideas. A great help to writing teachers who are always looking for lesson ideas.