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Classroom-tested methods for boosting secondary students' writing skillsThe 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 skillsDesigned for English language arts teachers in grades 6-12, tutors, parents, learning specialists, homeschoolers, and consultants.

What Makes This Book Different
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Action Verbs as a Method of Elaboration
Adages
Adjectives as a Method of Elaboration
Adverbs as a Method of Elaboration: Practice #1
Adverbs as a Method of Elaboration: Practice #2
Allegory
Alliteration
Allusion
Analogy
Anecdote
Antagonist
Application and Synthesis
Assessing Prompts: Determining Mode of Writing
Assonance
Autobiographical Collage
Biography
Brainstorming
Brainstorming: Web
Brainstorming: Web Subpoints
Business Letter
Character Sketch
Characterization: Actions
Characterization: Contrasting Actions
Characterization: Appearance
Characterization: Environment
Characterization: Inner Thoughts and Feelings (First Person)
Characterization: Inner Thoughts and Feelings (Third Person Omniscient)
Characterization: Speech
Characterization: What Others Say
Cliches
Climax
Choppy Style
Commas (Individualized Practice #1)
Commas (Individualized Practice #2)
Comparison/Contrast Essay (Introduction)
Comparison/Contrast Essay (First Body: First Part of Contrast/Comparison of Actions)
Comparison/Contrast Essay (First Body: Second Part of Contrast/Comparison of Actions)
Comparison/Contrast (Second Body)
Comparison/Contrast Essay (Third Body)
Comparison/Contrast Essay (Conclusion)
Conflict: External
Conflict: Internal
Connectives
Connotation or Denotation
Definition as a Method of Elaboration
Definitions: Specialized
Denouement
Description as a Method of Elaboration
Descriptive Essay (Introduction)
Descriptive Essay (First Body)
Descriptive Essay (Second Body)
Descriptive Essay (Third Body)
Descriptive Essay (Conclusion)
Dialect
Dialogue as a Method of Elaboration
Editing for Grammar Mistakes
Elaboration
Elaboration: Examples and Explanation as a Method
Elaboration: Researchable Fact as a Method
Euphemisms
Expanded Moment
Expository Writing (Introduction)
Expository Writing (First Body)
Expository Writing (Second Body)
Expository Writing (Third Body)
Expository Writing (Conclusion)
Extended Metaphor (Part #1)
Extended Metaphor (Part #2)
Famous Quotations Blending into Author's Own Words
Famous Quotations as Methods of Elaboration
Famous Quotations (Top Ten)
Fantasy
Figurative Language Fill-Ins
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Fragments
Friendly Letter (Heading, Salutation, Introduction)
Friendly Letter (Body, Part #1)
Friendly Letter (Body, Part #2)
Full-Circle Ending in Narratives and Quick Writes
Full-Circle Ending in Free Verse Poems
Hooks (Part #1)
Hooks (Part #2)
Hooks (Part #3)
Hooks (Part #4)
How-To Vignette
How-To or Process Writing (Introduction)
How-To or Process Writing (First Body)
How-To or Process Writing (Second Body)
How-To or Process Writing (Third Body)
How-To or Process Writing (Conclusion)
Humor
Hyperbole
Hyphenated Modifier
Idioms
Inference
Irony of Situation
Interview Questions (Get-Acquainted Exercise)
Literary Analysis (Introduction)
Literary Analysis (First Body)
Literary Analysis (Second Body)
Literary Analysis (Third Body)
Literary Analysis (Conclusion)
Magic Three as a Method of Elaboration and Voice
Metaphor
Metaphor Quick Write
Mood (Part #1)
Mood Prediction (Part #2)
Motif
Motivation
Name
Narrative (Setting, Characters, Conflict)
Narrative (Furthering Conflict in Rising Action)
Narrative (Introduction of Second Conflict and More Insight into Characters)
Narrative (Characters' Reaction to Conflict)
Narrative (Introduction of Minor Character and Continued Conflict)
Narrative (Climax and Falling Action)
Onomatopoeia
Open-Ended Questions
Open-Ended Question ("The Physicians of Trinidad")
Paradox
Pathetic Fallacy (Part #1)
Pathetic Fallacy (Part #2)
Peer Editing
Personalizing Current Events: Turning Nonfiction into Fiction
Personification
Persuasive Writing (Introduction)
Persuasive Writing (First Body)
Persuasive Writing (Second Body)
Persuasive Writing (Third Body)
Persuasive Writing (Conclusion)
Picture Prompt Writing
Picture Prompt Rubric: Student-Interactive (Beginning)
Picture Prompt Rubric: Student-Interactive (Details)
Picture Prompt Rubric: Student-Interactive (Editing)
Play-Doh Writing Game
Poem Cut-Ups
Poignancy
Point of View: Omniscient
Prediction (Part #1)
Prediction (Part #2)
Redundancy
Repetition for Effect: One Trick for Voice (From Excerpt of Short Story)
Repetition for Effect (Sentence Practice)
Run-On Sentences
Science Fiction (Setting and Characters)
Science Fiction (Unfolding of Plot: Rising Action #2)
Science Fiction (Establishing Conflict: Rising Action Introducing Conflict )
Science Fiction (Establishing Connection Between Characters)
Science Fiction (Plan Purposed: Plan of Action Revealed )
Science Fiction (Rising Action Leading to Climax)
Science Fiction (Climax and Falling Action)
Sensory Images as a Method of Elaboration (Sight)
Sensory Images (Sound)
Sensory Images (Touch)
Sensory Images (Taste)
Sensory Images (Smell)
Sentence Variety: Sentence Combining (Noun Absolutes)
Sentence Variety: Noun Absolutes Practice
Sentence Variety: Sentence Combining (Participial Phrase)
Sentence Variety: Participial Phrase Practice
Sentence Variety: Sentence Combining (Adverb Clause)
Sentence Variety: Adverb Clause Practice
Sentence Variety: Sentence Combining (Adjective Clause)
Sentence Variety: Adjective Clause Practice
Similes as Methods of Voice in a Paragraph
Similes as Practice in Developing Voice
Snapshot Poem
Structure Rubric for One-Paragraph Essay
Subjunctive Mood of Verbs
Summary
Symbol
Thank-You Note
Theme: Building Themes into Essays
Themes: Works Built Around a Theme
Transitions: More Sophisticated Methods (Persuasive Essay)
Transitions: More Sophisticated Methods (Expository Essay)
Verb Tense Shift
Vocabulary: I Don't Think So
Vocabulary: Which Word?
Vocabulary: What If?
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