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Authors: Gary Robert Muschla
ISBN-13: 9780071463164, ISBN-10: 007146316X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Date Published: June 2006
Edition: 1ST

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Author Biography: Gary Robert Muschla

Gary Robert Muschla has taught grades four through six for twenty-five years and has written dozens of teacher resource guides.

Book Synopsis

Help your students develop their writing and proofreading skills with hundreds of creative hands-on activities

If you are looking for supplemental material for your writing program or are in search of practical exercises to boost your pupils’ proofreading abilities, this invaluable resource has it all!

Teach Terrific Writing, Grades 4–5 features 170 activities—including an answer key—versatile enough to be adapted to any existing program or approach. This book provides you with all the guidelines and tools you need to develop a classroom of great writers.

With help from Teach Terrific Writing, Grades 4–5

your students will learn how to:

  • Focus their topics
  • Organize ideas
  • Write a draft
  • Construct paragraphs
  • Understand the order of ideas
  • Recognize good writing
  • Use proofreading strategies
  • and much more

Soon your students will become masters at producing complete pieces of writing as well as polishing their work.

Gary Robert Muschla has taught grades four through six for twenty-five years and has written dozens of teacher resource guides.

Table of Contents

Pt. 1Finding and developing ideas for writing1
Discovering ideas1
Personal experience : the source1
The value of keeping a journal3
The value of reading3
Seeing life through the eyes of a writer4
Focusing ideas5
Developing ideas6
Organizing ideas9
Helping students who have trouble finding ideas10
Reproducible worksheets
Personally speaking12
Among friends27
School days37
Near and far51
Leisure time65
Recreation79
Weird, strange, and unbelievable94
Pt. 2Writing the draft113
Sentences : the foundation of the draft114
Building paragraphs116
Showing and not telling117
Using adjectives and adverbs wisely118
Order and sequence119
Using active constructions119
Using strong verbs120
Verb tenses121
Subject-verb agreement121
Point of view122
Comparison and contrast123
Figurative language124
Reproducible worksheets126
Pt. 3Revision147
What is revision?147
Nurturing skills in revision148
Plan for revision149
Revision peer consultants151
Reproducible worksheets
Guidelines for revision154
Pt. 4Proofreading181
Proofreading strategies181
Proofreading and computer screens182
The value of proofreading partners183
Reproducible worksheets
Guidelines for proofreading186

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