The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day: 180 Reproducible Prompts and Quick-Writes for the Secondary Classroom

Ledbetter, Mary Ellen

ISBN 10: 0470461322 / ISBN 13: 9780470461327

Published by Jossey-Bass, 2010

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Synopsis:

Classroom-tested methods for boosting secondary students' writing skills

The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day offers teachers, homeschoolers, and parents 180 ready-to-use, reproducible activities that enhance writing skills in secondary students. Based on Ledbetter's extensive experience consulting to language arts teachers and school districts across the country, the classroom-tested activities included in this book teach students key literary and writing terms like allegory, elaboration, irony, personification, propaganda, voice, and more--and provide them with engaging examples that serve as models for their own Quick Writes.

• Contains writing prompts and sample passages in student-friendly language that connects abstract literary concepts to students' own lives
• Written by popular workshop presenter and veteran educator Mary Ellen Ledbetter
• Offers a user-friendly, value-packed resource for teaching writing skills

Designed for English language arts teachers in grades 6-12, tutors, parents, learning specialists, homeschoolers, and consultants.

About the Author:

MARY ELLEN LEDBETTER, M.A., is a noted presenter and educational consultant specializing in boosting language arts skills in K–12 students. She has extensive teaching experience in public schools as well as at the college level. Her previous books include Ready-To-Use English Workshop Activities Writing Portfolio Activities Kit Something for Every Day, All About Me, and You Say—I Say.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day: 180 ...
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Acceptable