A practical series that provides over 540 stimulating, ready-to-use activity sheets to help teach and reinforce writing skills in middle/junior high and senior high school students, grades 6-12. Each unit in the series focuses on a different area of writing skills and is complete and self-contained, including 90 reproducible activities in a variety of formats, a brief teacher's guide to effective use of the activities and full answer keys. The activities can be used in any order in any developmental or corrective writing program to meet the specific needs of individual students, small groups, or an entire class.

Jack Umstatter, a master English teacher with over 25 years' experience, is a multiple winner of the Teacher of the Year award. He currently teaches English in the Cold Spring Harbor School District in New York and educationand literature at Dowling College in Oakdale, New York. He is the author of Brain Games!, Hooked on English! and other practical teacher resources published by The Center.

About The Writing Skills Curriculum Library

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About Unit 6

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Teacher's Correction Marks

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SECTION ONE WORKING ON THE BASICS

Your Portfolio Log

3

(1)

Portfolio Writing Considerations

4

(1)

Writing Conference Sheet

5

(1)

How Much Are You the Same?

6

(1)

Following the Brainstorm

7

(1)

Brainstorming Ideas

8

(1)

Vocabulary Journal

9

(1)

Vocabulary Dexterity

10

(1)

Grouping the Pieces of Information

11

(1)

You as the Editor

12

(1)

Don't Go Belly Up Here!

13

(1)

Sentence Warm-up

14

(1)

Punctuation Review

15

(1)

Punctuating Dialogue

16

(1)

Grammar, Mechanics, and Usage Review

17

(1)

Essential Terms

18

(1)

Half and Half

19

(1)

Playing with Words That Are Not Words

20

(1)

Time for a Break

21

(4)

SECTION TWO EXAMINING WRITING TECHNIQUES

Scooby Doo and Much More

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(1)

Airline Tickets (Part One)

26

(1)

Airline Tickets (Part Two)

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(1)

The Summer Tradition

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(1)

Imitating Another Student's Writing

29

(1)

Bricks

30

(1)

Before Thirty-Something (Part One)

31

(1)

Before Thirty-Something (Part Two)

32

(1)

Thinking and Writing Creatively

33

(1)

Something New (Part One)

34

(1)

Something New (Part Two)

35

(1)

Joey

36

(1)

Your Town (Part One)

37

(1)

Your Town (Part Two)

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(1)

Your Town (Part Three)

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(1)

Your Town (Part Four)

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(3)

SECTION THREE WRITING AWAY

Reaching Them

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(1)

Taylor's Bucket

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(1)

You Give and They Follow

45

(1)

French or Spanish?

46

(1)

The Poet in You

47

(1)

The Neighbor

48

(1)

Meet the Tripps

49

(1)

Story Starters

50

(1)

New York and Paris

51

(1)

Interpreting Quotations

52

(1)

Humpty Dumpty

53

(1)

Kids' TV

54

(1)

Andrea Bocelli

55

(1)

American Gothic

56

(1)

A Teenger's Stressful Life

57

(1)

The Recall

58

(1)

An Unpleasant Situation

59

(1)

A Real Problem

60

(3)

SECTION FOUR LOOKING AT LITERATURE

The Literary Me

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(1)

Tragic Characters

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(1)

Sketching a Literary Character

65

(1)

Matching the Character and the Quote

66

(1)

Personal Characteristics

67

(1)

To Follow or Not to Follow---That Is the Question

68

(1)

More Than a Peep of Bo-Peep

69

(1)

The Crucible

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(1)

Evaluation Strategies

71

(1)

A Worthwhile Conversation

72

(1)

Hamlet---A Man of Action

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(1)

Hammer or Anvil?

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(1)

The Reader's Mind

75

(1)

Stepping into the Work

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(1)

Dead Poets Society

77

(1)

The Grammatically Correct Poem

78

(1)

Romeo and Juliet

79

(1)

Paraphrasing the Constitution

80

(1)

Shaping Up Your Shakespeare

81

(4)

SECTION FIVE LIVING AND WRITING IN TODAY'S WORLD

Advice Columnist

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(1)

Ten Tough Proposals

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(1)

Three Favorites

87

(1)

The Very Necessary-----

88

(1)

Clever Advertising Lines

89

(1)

Puns

90

(1)

The Personal Crossword Puzzle

91

(1)

Mr. Peacock

92

(1)

Clothes Make the Man (or Woman or Boy or Girl)

93

(1)

If I Were-----for a Day

94

(1)

It Does Not Work and So...

95

(1)

Dear Mrs. Wilker

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(1)

Journal entry

97

(1)

Just as the Editor Ordered

98

(1)

What's in a Name?

99

(1)

Researching the Awards

100

(1)

What's Going on Around You

101

(1)

Words to Live By

102

(1)

Answer Key

103

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