Ready-to-Use Word Activities Unit 1, Includes 90 Sequential Activities for Building Better Word Skills in Grades 6 through 12

by Umstatter, Jack

• ISBN13: 9780876284827
• ISBN10: 0876284829
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-02
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

About the Writing Skills Curriculum Library	ix
About Unit 2	xi
Teacher's Correction Marks	xviii
SECTION ONE BEGINNING WITH THE BASICS
What Will a Mouse Do?
Sentence classifications	3	(1)
Three of a Kind
Parts of speech	4	(1)
Looking Into the Heart of the Sentence
Parts of speech crossword puzzle	5	(1)
The Terms of the Sentence
Parts of spech crossword puzzle	6	(1)
Fitting the Pieces Together
Parts of speech	7	(1)
Putting it All Together
Phrases and clauses	8	(1)
We Have Attitudes! Fifteen of Them!
Illustrative sentences	9	(1)
Mood Sentences
Mood of the sentence	10	(1)
The Periodic Sentence
Periodic sentences	11	(1)
A Starter Sentence's Purpose
Opening sentences	12	(1)
Strengthening Your Sentences
Sentence details	13	(1)
Cop an Attitude
Topic sentences	14	(1)
Making Observations
Describing people	15	(1)
Descriptions of People
Describing people	16	(1)
More Descriptions of People
Descriptive adjectives	17	(1)
Poetic Descriptions
Writing poetry	18	(1)
Making Sense (And Sentences) Out of Poetry
Interpreting poetry	19	(1)
Structuring Your Sentences
Sentence classifications	20	(1)
How Simple? How Compound? How Complex?
Sentence classifications	21	(4)
SECTION TWO MOVING ONWARD AND UPWARD
Staying Simple for Starters
The simple sentence	25	(1)
Main Verbs
Main verbs crossword puzzle	26	(1)
Life's Big Question
Subjects and predicates	27	(1)
Parts-of-Speech Trios
Parts of speech	28	(1)
Five Each
Parts of speech word find	29	(1)
Double-Duty Words
Verbs and nouns word find	30	(1)
Sentence Associates
Grammar terms word find	31	(1)
Adjectives, Adverbs, and Spelling
Description and spelling	32	(1)
Parts-of-Speech Fill-Ins
Parts of speech	33	(1)
Working Your Way Through the Parts of Speech
Sentence construction	34	(1)
More Parts-of-Speech Fill-Ins
Sentence construction	35	(1)
Match the Sentence With Its Description
Parts of speech	36	(1)
Dissecting the Sentence
Parts of speech crossword puzzle	37	(4)
SECTION THREE SENTENCE ESSENTIALS
Finding the 21 Verb Phrases
Verb phrases word find	41	(1)
Placing the Prepositional Phrases
Prepositional phrases	42	(1)
Locating Verbal Phrases
Verbal phrases	43	(1)
Verbals Vying for Victory
Participles, gerunds, and infinitives	44	(1)
Finding the 15 Phrases
Phrases	45	(1)
An Olympian Experience
Phrases	46	(1)
Showing Variety Within Your Sentences
Phrases and clauses	47	(1)
The Clause Course
Clauses	48	(1)
Finding the Dependent or Subordinate Clauses
Clauses word find	49	(1)
Making Two Into One
Clauses	50	(1)
Wise Words From Wise Women
Sentence building	51	(1)
Double the Score
Phrases and clauses	52	(1)
Developing a Story Through Phrases
Story writing	53	(1)
Filling in the Fragments
Sentence building	54	(1)
Add to, Take From, or Make Another Change
Fragments and run-ons	55	(1)
Jive With Five
Fragments and run-ons	56	(1)
Knowing When a Group of Words Is a Sentence
Fragments and run-ons	57	(1)
Running Down the Run-On Sentence
Sentence corrections	58	(1)
Where Did the Other Words Go?
Sentence building	59	(4)
SECTION FOUR IMPROVING YOUR SENTENCES
Too Many Words
Writing concise sentences	63	(1)
Keep It Simple
Writing concise sentences	64	(1)
Wordiness Is Out
Writing concise sentences	65	(1)
Let's Not Overstate It
Illustrative sentences	66	(1)
One's Right and One's Wrong
Sentence correction	67	(1)
The 49'ers
Commas	68	(1)
Detecting Sentence Errors
Sentence correction	69	(1)
Cutting Out the Confusion
Words often confused crossword puzzle	70	(1)
Avoiding the Passive Voice
Voice	71	(1)
Animals in Similes
Similes	72	(1)
Kicking Out the Cliches
Cliches	73	(1)
Explaining the Idioms
Idioms	74	(5)
SECTION FIVE SHAPING SENSATIONAL SENTENCES
Three-Word Sentences
Parts of speech and sentence building	79	(1)
Scrambled Sentences
Sentence building	80	(1)
Joining Words to Make Sentences
Sentence building	81	(1)
Constructing the Sentences
Sentence building	82	(1)
Consecutive Letters
Sentence building	83	(1)
The Proper Arrangement
Rearranging words	84	(1)
CPR For These Sentences!
Description	85	(1)
Using Modifiers Effectively
Description	86	(1)
Matching the Dependents With the Independents
Clauses	87	(1)
Matching the Cause and the Effect
Clauses	88	(1)
Adding to the Sentence Base
Improving sentences	89	(1)
Follow-Up Sentences
Combining sentences	90	(1)
Details Never Hurt
Improving sentences	91	(4)
SECTION SIX WRITING MORE MATURELY
Connecting the Words
Word and sentence order	95	(1)
Putting Them Back Together
Word and sentence order	96	(1)
Following a Harder Path
Word and sentence order	97	(1)
Four Sentences
Sentence building	98	(1)
Transitional Words Word-Find
Transitions word find	99	(1)
Subordinating Conjunctions Word-Find
Conjunctions word find	100	(1)
Cryptic Conjunctions
Conjunctions puzzle	101	(1)
Transitional Words and Phrases
Transitions and their uses	102	(1)
Combining Sentences
Using transitions	103	(1)
More Sentence Combinations
Using transitions	104	(1)
Subordination
Constructing sentences	105	(1)
Coordinating the Ideas
Combining ideas	106	(2)
Fifty Percent of the Time
Sentence combining	108	(1)
Showing Your Versatility
Sentence construction	109	(2)
Answer Key	111