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ISBN 10:  0470461322

ISBN 13: 978-0470461327

Author: Mary Ellen Ledbetter

Classroom-tested methods for boosting secondary students’ writing skills

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.

Table of contents: 

1. What Makes This Book Different

2. About the Author

3. Acknowledgments

4. Action Verbs as a Method of Elaboration

5. Adages

6. Adjectives as a Method of Elaboration

7. Adverbs as a Method of Elaboration: Practice #1

8. Adverbs as a Method of Elaboration: Practice #2

9. Allegory

10. Alliteration

11. Allusion

12. Analogy

13. Anecdote

14. Antagonist

15. Application and Synthesis

16. Assessing Prompts: Determining Mode of Writing

17. Assonance

18. Autobiographical Collage

19. Biography

20. Brainstorming

21. Brainstorming: Web

22. Brainstorming: Web Subpoints

23. Business Letter

24. Character Sketch

25. Characterization: Actions

26. Characterization: Contrasting Actions

27. Characterization: Appearance

28. Characterization: Environment

29. Characterization: Inner Thoughts and Feelings (First Person)

30. Characterization: Inner Thoughts and Feelings (Third Person Omniscient)

31. Characterization: Speech

32. Characterization: What Others Say

33. Clichés

34. Climax

35. Choppy Style

36. Commas (Individualized Practice #1)

37. Commas (Individualized Practice #2)

38. Comparison/Contrast Essay (Introduction)

39. Comparison/Contrast Essay (First Body: First Part of Contrast/Comparison of Actions)

40. Comparison/Contrast Essay (First Body: Second Part of Contrast/Comparison of Actions)

41. Comparison/Contrast (Second Body)

42. Comparison/Contrast Essay (Third Body)

43. Comparison/Contrast Essay (Conclusion)

44. Conflict: External

45. Conflict: Internal

46. Connectives

47. Connotation or Denotation

48. Definition as a Method of Elaboration

49. Definitions: Specialized

50. Denouement

51. Description as a Method of Elaboration

52. Descriptive Essay (Introduction)

53. Descriptive Essay (First Body)

54. Descriptive Essay (Second Body)

55. Descriptive Essay (Third Body)

56. Descriptive Essay (Conclusion)

57. Dialect

58. Dialogue as a Method of Elaboration

59. Editing for Grammar Mistakes

60. Elaboration

61. Elaboration: Examples and Explanation as a Method

62. Elaboration: Researchable Fact as a Method

63. Euphemisms

64. Expanded Moment

65. Expository Writing (Introduction)

66. Expository Writing (First Body)

67. Expository Writing (Second Body)

68. Expository Writing (Third Body)

69. Expository Writing (Conclusion)

70. Extended Metaphor (Part #1)

71. Extended Metaphor (Part #2)

72. Famous Quotations Blending into Author’s Own Words

73. Famous Quotations as Methods of Elaboration

74. Famous Quotations (Top Ten)

75. Fantasy

76. Figurative Language Fill-Ins

77. Flashback

78. Foreshadowing

79. Fragments

80. Friendly Letter (Heading, Salutation, Introduction)

81. Friendly Letter (Body, Part #1)

82. Friendly Letter (Body, Part #2)

83. Full-Circle Ending in Narratives and Quick Writes

84. Full-Circle Ending in Free Verse Poems

85. Hooks (Part #1)

86. Hooks (Part #2)

87. Hooks (Part #3)

88. Hooks (Part #4)

89. How-To Vignette

90. How-To or Process Writing (Introduction)

91. How-To or Process Writing (First Body)

92. How-To or Process Writing (Second Body)

93. How-To or Process Writing (Third Body)

94. How-To or Process Writing (Conclusion)

95. Humor

96. Hyperbole

97. Hyphenated Modifier

98. Idioms

99. Inference

100. Irony of Situation

101. Interview Questions (Get-Acquainted Exercise)

102. Literary Analysis (Introduction)

103. Literary Analysis (First Body)

104. Literary Analysis (Second Body)

105. Literary Analysis (Third Body)

106. Literary Analysis (Conclusion)

107. Magic Three as a Method of Elaboration and Voice

108. Metaphor

109. Metaphor Quick Write

110. Mood (Part #1)

111. Mood Prediction (Part #2)

112. Motif

113. Motivation

114. Name

115. Narrative (Setting, Characters, Conflict)

116. Narrative (Furthering Conflict in Rising Action)

117. Narrative (Introduction of Second Conflict and More Insight into Characters)

118. Narrative (Characters’ Reaction to Conflict)

119. Narrative (Introduction of Minor Character and Continued Conflict)

120. Narrative (Climax and Falling Action)

121. Onomatopoeia

122. Open-Ended Questions

123. Open-Ended Question (“The Physicians of Trinidad”)

124. Paradox

125. Pathetic Fallacy (Part #1)

126. Pathetic Fallacy (Part #2)

127. Peer Editing

128. Personalizing Current Events: Turning Nonfiction into Fiction

129. Personification

130. Persuasive Writing (Introduction)

131. Persuasive Writing (First Body)

132. Persuasive Writing (Second Body)

133. Persuasive Writing (Third Body)

134. Persuasive Writing (Conclusion)

135. Picture Prompt Writing

136. Picture Prompt Rubric: Student-Interactive (Beginning)

137. Picture Prompt Rubric: Student-Interactive (Details)

138. Picture Prompt Rubric: Student-Interactive (Editing)

139. Play-Doh Writing Game

140. Poem Cut-Ups

141. Poignancy

142. Point of View: Omniscient

143. Prediction (Part #1)

144. Prediction (Part #2)

145. Redundancy

146. Repetition for Effect: One Trick for Voice (From Excerpt of Short Story)

147. Repetition for Effect (Sentence Practice)

148. Run-On Sentences

149. Science Fiction (Setting and Characters)

150. Science Fiction (Unfolding of Plot: Rising Action #2)

151. Science Fiction (Establishing Conflict: Rising Action Introducing Conflict)

152. Science Fiction (Establishing Connection Between Characters)

153. Science Fiction (Plan Purposed: Plan of Action Revealed)

154. Science Fiction (Rising Action Leading to Climax)

155. Science Fiction (Climax and Falling Action)

156. Sensory Images as a Method of Elaboration (Sight)

157. Sensory Images (Sound)

158. Sensory Images (Touch)

159. Sensory Images (Taste)

160. Sensory Images (Smell)

161. Sentence Variety: Sentence Combining (Noun Absolutes)

162. Sentence Variety: Noun Absolutes Practice

163. Sentence Variety: Sentence Combining (Participial Phrase)

164. Sentence Variety: Participial Phrase Practice

165. Sentence Variety: Sentence Combining (Adverb Clause)

166. Sentence Variety: Adverb Clause Practice

167. Sentence Variety: Sentence Combining (Adjective Clause)

168. Sentence Variety: Adjective Clause Practice

169. Similes as Methods of Voice in a Paragraph

170. Similes as Practice in Developing Voice

171. Snapshot Poem

172. Structure Rubric for One-Paragraph Essay

173. Subjunctive Mood of Verbs

174. Summary

175. Symbol

176. Thank-You Note

177. Theme: Building Themes into Essays

178. Themes: Works Built Around a Theme

179. Transitions: More Sophisticated Methods (Persuasive Essay)

180. Transitions: More Sophisticated Methods (Expository Essay)

181. Verb Tense Shift

182. Vocabulary: I Don’t Think So

183. Vocabulary: Which Word?

184. Vocabulary: What If?

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