Building Writing Skills: Essential Tips & Techniques Workbook - Using a 5-Step Writing Process to Teach Writing (Grades 6-12+) - Softcover

Noreen Conte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1601449631 ISBN 13: 9781601449634

Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co., 2019

Synopsis

This 88-page book teaches students techniques to strengthen their writing.

In order to express thoughts clearly and precisely to make writing come alive, the students will:

- Use vivid verbs, specific nouns, and strong adjectives
- Spot unnecessary adjectives and adverbs
- Recognize and correct pronoun antecedent confusion
- Use the active voice rather than the passive voice
- Be careful of qualifiers
- Correct issues with point of view
- Show, not tell
- Use sensory details

To write more interesting sentences that make writing flow in a logical manner, the students will:

- Vary sentence types: simple, compound, and complex
- Vary sentence beginnings
- Use effective transition words and phrases
- Use appositives to add meaning to sentences

To make writing more appealing to readers, students will use the following literary devices:

- Similes
- Metaphors
- Hyperbole
- Alliteration
- Repetition
- Personification
- Anthropomorphism
- Onomatopoeia

Edition details

• Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co.
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1601449631
• ISBN 13: 9781601449634
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 88