Description
The 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 skills
Designed for English language arts teachers in grades 6-12, tutors, parents, learning specialists, homeschoolers, and consultants.
Author: Mary Ellen Ledbetter
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 01/01/2010
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 7.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780470461327
ISBN10: 0470461322
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Teaching | Subjects | Language Arts
- Education | Schools | Levels | Secondary
- Education | Teaching | Subjects | Reading & Phonics
About the Author
MARY ELLEN LEDBETTER, M.A., is a noted presenter and educational consultant specializing in boosting language arts skills in K-12 students. She has extensive teaching experience in public schools as well as at the college level. Her previous books include Ready-To-Use English Workshop Activities Writing Portfolio Activities Kit Something for Every Day, All About Me, and You Say--I Say.