Authors: Gary Robert Muschla
ISBN-13: 9780071463164, ISBN-10: 007146316X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Date Published: June 2006
Edition: 1ST
Gary Robert Muschla has taught grades four through six for twenty-five years and has written dozens of teacher resource guides.
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 activitiesincluding an answer keyversatile 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:
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.
Pt. 1 | Finding and developing ideas for writing | 1 |
Discovering ideas | 1 | |
Personal experience : the source | 1 | |
The value of keeping a journal | 3 | |
The value of reading | 3 | |
Seeing life through the eyes of a writer | 4 | |
Focusing ideas | 5 | |
Developing ideas | 6 | |
Organizing ideas | 9 | |
Helping students who have trouble finding ideas | 10 | |
Reproducible worksheets | ||
Personally speaking | 12 | |
Among friends | 27 | |
School days | 37 | |
Near and far | 51 | |
Leisure time | 65 | |
Recreation | 79 | |
Weird, strange, and unbelievable | 94 | |
Pt. 2 | Writing the draft | 113 |
Sentences : the foundation of the draft | 114 | |
Building paragraphs | 116 | |
Showing and not telling | 117 | |
Using adjectives and adverbs wisely | 118 | |
Order and sequence | 119 | |
Using active constructions | 119 | |
Using strong verbs | 120 | |
Verb tenses | 121 | |
Subject-verb agreement | 121 | |
Point of view | 122 | |
Comparison and contrast | 123 | |
Figurative language | 124 | |
Reproducible worksheets | 126 | |
Pt. 3 | Revision | 147 |
What is revision? | 147 | |
Nurturing skills in revision | 148 | |
Plan for revision | 149 | |
Revision peer consultants | 151 | |
Reproducible worksheets | ||
Guidelines for revision | 154 | |
Pt. 4 | Proofreading | 181 |
Proofreading strategies | 181 | |
Proofreading and computer screens | 182 | |
The value of proofreading partners | 183 | |
Reproducible worksheets | ||
Guidelines for proofreading | 186 |