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Editorial Skills: Ready-to-Use Writing Workshop Activities Kits. A Practical and Systematic Way To Build Basic Writing Skills and Teach the Entire Writing Process in Grades 4 through 8. Kit IV.
Schifferle, Judith – 1985
This handbook is one of a set of six which provide a systematic means to help students in grades 4 through 8 learn the process of writing while building specific writing skills. The handbook focuses on editorial skills, and offers 25 reproducible lessons, in a variety of formats, which focus on a specific writing improvement skill, such as writing…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Editing, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
The Influence of Teaching the Main Idea, Drawing Conclusions, and Making Inferences on the Improvement of Writing Skills.
Covey, Donna G. – 1991
A practicum addressed fifth and sixth graders' deficiencies in writing and comprehension skills with the implementation of diagnostic-prescriptive teaching techniques. The Multi Level Academic Skills Inventory and interest inventories aided in defining students' specific strengths and weaknesses in the areas of reading and language arts. Among the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Grade 5, Grade 6
Billy's Story: Grammar in Context (Rainbow Teachers/Rainbow Students).
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Haddox, Gretchen – English Journal, 1998
Shows how teaching grammar through writing can be a successful strategy. Points out the steps one teacher used in teaching a writing and grammar process with her sixth graders and illustrates its effectiveness, both with one high-risk student and also through a school disruption caused by fire. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Grade 6, Grammar, High Risk Students
Sentence Skills: Ready-to-Use Writing Workshop Activities Kits. A Practical and Systematic Way To Build Basic Writing Skills and Teach the Entire Writing Process in Grades 4 through 8. Kit II.
Schifferle, Judith – 1985
This handbook is one of a set of six which provide a systematic means to help students in grades 4 through 8 learn the process of writing while building specific writing skills. The handbook focuses on sentence skills, and offers 30 reproducible lessons, in a variety of formats, to help students write simple, compound, and complex sentences. The…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Figurative Language, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Notetaking and Outlining Skills: Ready-to-Use Writing Workshop Activities Kits. A Practical and Systematic Way To Build Basic Writing Skills and Teach the Entire Writing Process in Grades 4 through 8. Kit VI.
Schifferle, Judith – 1985
This handbook is one of a set of six which provide a systematic means to help students in grades 4 through 8 learn the process of writing while building specific writing skills. The handbook focuses on notetaking and outlining skills, and offers 25 reproducible lessons, in a variety of formats, which give students practical experience in…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Notetaking
Word Skills: Ready-to-Use Writing Workshop Activities Kits. A Practical and Systematic Way To Build Basic Writing Skills and Teach the Entire Writing Process in Grades 4 through 8. Kit I.
Schifferle, Judith – 1985
This handbook is one of a set of six which provide a systematic means to help students in grades 4 through 8 learn the process of writing while building specific writing skills. The handbook focuses on word skills, and offers 30 reproducible lessons, in a variety of formats, to help students improve their use of vocabulary, different parts of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Process Approach (Writing)
Letter and Report Writing Skills: Ready-to-Use Writing Workshop Activities Kits. A Practical and Systematic Way To Build Basic Writing Skills and Teach the Entire Writing Process in Grades 4 through 8. Kit V.
Schifferle, Judith – 1985
This handbook is one of a set of six which provide a systematic means to help students in grades 4 through 8 learn the process of writing while building specific writing skills. The handbook focuses on letter and report writing skills, and offers 25 reproducible lessons, in a variety of formats, which give students practical experience in writing…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Letters (Correspondence)
Write! Write! Write! Ready-to-Use Writing Process Activities for Grades 4-8.
Behrman, Carol H. – 1995
This handbook contains over 265 reproducible writing process activities that help make writing fun for students in grades 4-8. The handbook provides stimulating activities to give students the directed practice they need to learn to write clearly and competently. Designed for minimal teacher input, activities are complete with directions geared to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
Classroom Applications: Will Taping and Replaying Their Speeches Help My Fourth Grade Students with Organizing Their Written Work?
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Wirth, Harold E. – 1993
A fourth-grade teacher developed a unit on writing designed to help his students go from oral to written text after finding that only 4 of the 22 in his classroom had the organizational and writing skills to get their ideas on paper. The basis of the unit was a unique problem which the teacher himself was trying to solve in real life; namely, how…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Class Activities, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Hooked on Writing: Ready-to-Use Writing Process Activities for Grades 4-8.
Behrman, Carol H. – 1990
Compiled by a classroom teacher for classroom teachers, this book presents over 75 activities and over 140 associated worksheets designed to implement the process approach to writing in the fourth through eighth grade classroom. The book notes that process writing provides the student not only with a "recipe" for writing, but also with two…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Essays, Intermediate Grades
Ease into Writing. Volume 1.
Lott, Carolyn, Ed.; Stone, Janet, Ed. – 1997
Addressing the expressed needs of the writing community, this book presents writing lessons for intermediate, middle school, and secondary school students that incorporate the 5-step writing process into content areas as a natural part of the curriculum. The 30 lessons in this book involve students in large and small groups and in individual…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Fairy Tales, Intermediate Grades, Lesson Plans
Story Starters on the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas. A Creative Writing Program.
Henrich, Steve; Henrich, Jean – 1991
Designed to supplement an established language arts and social studies program, this books deals with the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas of Latin America. All of the "Story Starter" books are intended to give a variety of vocabulary and story ideas to help with the writing process. Each of the books is divided into four main sections: (1) an…
Descriptors: Characterization, Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Creative Writing
Paragraph Writing Skills: Ready-to-Use Writing Workshop Activities Kits. A Practical and Systematic Way To Build Basic Writing Skills and Teach the Entire Writing Process in Grades 4 through 8. Kit III.
Schifferle, Judith – 1985
This handbook is one of a set of six which provide a systematic means to help students in grades 4 through 8 learn the process of writing while building specific writing skills. The handbook focuses on paragraph writing, and offers 25 reproducible lessons, in a variety of formats, to help students improve their use of descriptive, narrative,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Descriptive Writing, Expository Writing, Intermediate Grades
Recognition: The Engine that Drives the Writing Process. Report No. 17.
Miller-Souviney, Barbara; Souviney, Randall – 1987
Computers and networks have opened new opportunities for recognition experiences in schools. Students gain the potential for increased recognition through the exchange of their writing with students in other classrooms in their own school, in other parts of the country, or in other parts of the world. Reorganizing and editing text for publication…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Intermediate Grades
Ease into Writing. Volume 2.
Lott, Carolyn, Ed.; Stone, Janet, Ed. – 1997
Addressing the expressed needs of the writing community, this book presents writing lessons for intermediate, middle school, and secondary school students that incorporate the 5-step writing process into content areas as a natural part of the curriculum. The 30 lessons in this book involve students in large and small groups and in individual…
Descriptors: Advertising, Characterization, Childrens Literature, Class Activities