Teaching Writing in Middle School: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques »

Classroom-tested lessons, practice problems, examples, games, and resources cover fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as all aspects of writing (including prewriting, editing, and technique). With step-by-step guidelines, helpful tips from the authors, and numerous writing activities, this book offers myriad options for inspiring your students.

Everything you need to make your writing program a success has been incorporated into this treasury. Classroom-tested lessons, practice problems, examples, games, and resources cover fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as all aspects of writing (including prewriting, editing, and technique). With step-by-step guidelines, helpful tips from the authors, and numerous writing activities, this book offers myriad options for inspiring your students.

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Offers lessons, practice problems, examples, games, and activities for teaching writing to students in grades six though eight. Activities are organized by steps in the writing process, from deciding what to write about to editing. Coverage includes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Revised and updated from the authors' previous work (, Libraries Unlimited, 1988), this edition has a new chapter on nonfiction and expository writing and an expanded chapter on fiction. Useful for teachers and homeschooling parents. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.