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

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Mary Ellen Ledbetter

The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day

180 Reproducible Prompts and Quick-Writes for the Secondary Classroom

Mary Ellen Ledbetter

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Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
09 December 2009

Secondary schools; Teaching of a specific subject; Educational: English language: reading & writing skills

Series: JB-Ed: 5 Minute FUNdamentals

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.

By: Mary Ellen Ledbetter
Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 231mm, Width: 185mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 386g
ISBN: 9780470461327
ISBN 10: 0470461322
Series: JB-Ed: 5 Minute FUNdamentals
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 09 December 2009
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

MARY ELLEN LEDBETTER, M.A., is a noted presenter and educational consultant specializing in boosting language arts skills in K12 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 SayI Say.