Write On!: 42 Lessons for Acquiring Writing Skills and Thinking Creatively

by Myers, R. E.

• ISBN13: 9781596474222
• ISBN10: 159647422X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-01
• Publisher: Social Studies School Service

Summary

Challenge students to flex their analytical and creative abilities in the process of learning to write. This sequel to "Time to Write" builds upon its predecessors innovation, reaching beyond the national standards with additional lessons and activities ranging from sentence structure to composing limericks, and from writing a letter to the editor to writing a personal anecdote. Each lesson begins with a page for teachers that outlines teaching suggestions, then presents an informative and challenging creative activity for students to complete. Many lessons also contain extension activities for students gifted in other areas, i.e., mathematical/logical, visual, intrapersonal, and so on. Grades 5-8.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Scrambled Syntax: Identifying Subjects and Predicates	p. 5
Sentence Sense: Distinguishing between Complete and Incomplete Sentences	p. 9
Pure Vanity: Writing Complete Sentences	p. 11
Getting a Fortune: Writing Complete Sentences (Continued)	p. 14
For the Fun of It: Writing Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences	p. 17
Sound It Twice: Writing a Paragraph with Alliteration	p. 19
"Quick Milk": Solving Riddles	p. 23
Sporting Riddles: Composing Riddles	p. 26
Jumbled: Writing a Paragraph with Uncluttered Sentences	p. 29
Shoo, Fly!: Composing Limericks	p. 32
Music for Life; Writing Descriptions of Sounds	p. 34
A Letter from Harry: Writing a Friendly Letter	p. 37
"Dear Editor": Writing Opinion Pieces	p. 40
Traitors and Patriots: Composing a Definition	p. 43
Oxymorons: Writing Oxymorons	p. 46
Are You Aware?: Writing a Report	p. 50
Can We Coax a Hoax from You?: Writing a Newspaper Story	p. 53
The Paws That Refreshes: Inventing Funny Names	p. 55
Name That Occupation: Naming	p. 58
Fitting Partners: Naming	p. 62
Pete and Friends: Writing Dialogue	p. 64
They Don't Talk Back (or Do They?): Writing Dialogue	p. 67
Playing Ball and Making Stitches: Writing Dialogue with Metaphors	p. 70
Six: Writing a Character Sketch	p. 73
Life's Paradoxes: Relating a Personal Experience	p. 77
What's Going on Here?: Writing an Anecdote	p. 80
Wordsmiths: Composing a Cinquain	p. 83
Naturally Five: Composing Tanka and Haiku	p. 86
Couplets: Composing Couplets	p. 89
Going Nowhere Fast: Writing a Short Story	p. 92
Lines: Writing an Essay	p. 95
What's Your Answer?: Writing a Short Story	p. 99
Campaign Slogans and Songs: Writing Song Lyrics	p. 102
Make Us Free: Writing an Essay	p. 105
You, the Magician: Writing an Essay	p. 108
Preservation: Writing an Essay	p. 111
Here's Some Advice: Writing a Personal Anecdote	p. 115
Only Three: Composing Questions	p. 117
Take Your Choice!: Writing an Exciting Story	p. 120
Putting It Briefly: Writing Punny Questions	p. 123
Big Game: Recognizing Clichés	p. 126
Game Shows: Recognizing Malapropisms	p. 128
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