Hands-on Writing Activities That Get Kids Ready for the Writing Assessments Mini-Lessons and Learning-Rich Activities That Build on the Multiple Intelligences to Teach Narrative, Persuasive, and Informational Writing?and Engage Each and Every Student!

by Zile, Susan Van

• ISBN13: 9780439175425
• ISBN10: 0439175429
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Teaching Resources

Summary

An award-winning teacher shares the 8 hands-on lessons she developed to prepare her students for the writing assessments. Lessons include the Great Paragraph Race, Super-Size Paragraphs, Building Paragraph Models, and lots more. These motivating activities will help every student learn to write narrative, persuasive, and informational paragraphs-and love doing it. For use with Grades 4-8.

Table of Contents

Introduction	4	(1)
What's Inside--and Why	4	(4)
The Writing Process	8	(13)
The Writing Autobiography	8	(4)
Visualizing the Writing Process Through Guided Imagery	12	(2)
Multiple Intelligences Projects	14	(3)
Direct Instruction and Technology	17	(4)
The Paragraph	21	(33)
Cookies and Paragraph Structure	21	(2)
The Great Paragraph Race	23	(5)
Paragraph Detectives	28	(2)
Building Paragraph Models with Legos	30	(3)
Super Size Paragraphs	33	(5)
Using ARMS: A Revision Strategy	38	(16)
The Three Modes of Writing	54	(12)
Making Food Inventions	54	(3)
Using Food Inventions as Springboards for Writing	57	(3)
Drafting, Peer Conferencing, Editing, and Assessing Food Invention Compositions	60	(3)
Reflections on Food Invention Activity	63	(1)
Examples of Student Food Invention Papers	64	(2)
Conclusion	66	(14)
Bibliography	80