At last! A companion activity book to the immensely popular Four Square Writing Method.
Chock-full of projects and ideas that are tailor-made to work with the Four Square Writing Method, this volume includes age-appropriate activities designed to:
take advantage of the language-learning connection and help students use what they know to learn new things; introduce ideas for a total writing classroom including management tools and techniques; provide mini lessons, warm-ups and other projects for writing experiences which also address some of the more troublesome student writing habits; improve compositions with examples and exercises drawn from actual student work and classroom experiences!
Judith S. Gould is an experienced classroom teacher. She is a writing resource teacher for grades K-5 at Windy Hill Elementary School in Florida. As a teacher consultant to the National Writing Project, she has been a frequent workshop presenter on methods to improve writing scores.
Evan Gould has been teaching music and drama for over 10 years. He teaches at Paterson Elementary School in Florida where he has been named teacher of the year. He has had great success integrating the basic subject areas into his hands-on art program. He is currently enrolled at the University of Florida in a program for Educational Leadership in Administration.