25 Mini-Lessons for Teaching Writing

25 Mini-Lessons for Teaching Writing
Author: Adele Fiderer
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1997
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780590209403

Each ten-minute lesson in this guide offers proven methods for strengthening a wide variety of writing skills. Students learn good writing techniques such as finding strong verbs, using details, crafting great endings, selecting good topics, and much more.

25 Quick Mini-Lessons to Teach Narrative Writing

25 Quick Mini-Lessons to Teach Narrative Writing
Author: Dave Leochko
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439063968

In this collection of engaging mini-lessons and companion reproducible pages, teacher Dave Leochko shares his favorite writing lessons--ones that have really helped his students become better writers. The classroom-tested lessons in this book take young writers through all the steps of the writing process, including getting an idea, revising a story, and conferencing with other writers, while also targeting specific skills, such as using punctuation correctly, varying sentence structure, making characters believable, and developing a plot. The reproducible pages feature activities that let students apply new skills, as well as writing tips and strategies they can collect and use a reference. For use with Grades 4-8.

Writing Strategies for All Primary Students

Writing Strategies for All Primary Students
Author: Janet C. Richards
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2011-02-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0470937203

A guide for teaching all your students the skills they need to be successful writers The 25 mini-lessons provided in this book are designed to develop students’ self-regulated writing behaviors and enhance their self-perceived writing abilities. These foundational writing strategies are applicable and adaptable to all primary students: emergent, advanced, English Language Learners, and struggling writers. Following the SCAMPER (Screen and assess, Confer, Assemble materials, Model, Practice, Execute, Reflect) mini-lesson model devised by the authors, the activities show teachers how to scaffold the writing strategies that students need in order to take control of their independent writing. Reveals helpful writing strategies, including making associations, planning, visualizing, accessing cues, using mnemonics, and more Offers ideas for helping students revise, check, and monitor their writing assignments Explains the author's proven SCAMPER model that is appropriate for students in grades K-3 Let Richards and Lassonde—two experts in the field of childhood education—guide you through these proven strategies for enhancing young children's writing skills.

Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing

Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
Author: Chris Jennings Dixon
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Why do students often graduate from high school unprepared for college writing? And what can we do about it? These are the questions that a group of classroom teachers set out to explore. Over the course of seven years, a group of middle, high school, college, and university teachers participated in a federally funded writing coalition project to implement innovative approaches to teaching writing. Together they developed this series of lesson plans designed to make writing both fun and an integral part of diverse curricula. "Practical" is the recurrent motif of each teaching strategy. Developed by real teachers in real classrooms, the lessons are grouped into seven categories: writing process, portfolios, literature, research, grammar, writing on demand, and media. Each lesson follows a standard format that includes purpose of the activity; necessary preparation; required props and materials; process and procedure for implementation; instructional pointers and/or possible pitfalls; and reflections from the teacher that provide "behind the scenes" insights.

Literature-Based Mini-Lessons to Teach Writing

Literature-Based Mini-Lessons to Teach Writing
Author: Susan Lunsford
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1998-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780590433723

Using favorite picturebooks for her mini-lessons models, teacher Susan Lunsford shares 15 easy-to-do writing lessons. Mini-lessons include: Where do story ideas come from? Great First Lines, Exploring Settings, Painting Pictures with Words, Writing a Complete Story, and Great Endings. Her teacher-student dialogues make it all easy to replicate in your own classroom. Each mini-lessons includes follow-up strategies and activities and picturebook suggestions. Writing conference and management tips too! For use with Grades 1-3.

Writing Mini-Lessons for Kindergarten

Writing Mini-Lessons for Kindergarten
Author: Dorothy P. Hall
Publisher: Four Blocks (a Division of Carson-Dellosa)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-03
Genre: Composition (Language arts)
ISBN: 9780887241192

This resource demonstates a range of mini-lessons for the writing block of the Four Block Literacy Model.

Teaching Writing in Kindergarten

Teaching Writing in Kindergarten
Author: Randee Bergen
Publisher: Teaching Resources
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780545054003

This smart, simple approach ensures that kindergarteners write at or above a first-grade level by the end of the year. Master teacher Randee Bergen shares her yearlong plan for daily writing, providing complete lessons and tips for motivating all learners, managing writing time, and assessing children's work effectively and efficiently. Includes guided lessons for the whole group as well as individualized mini-lessons to support learners exactly where they need help. For use with Grade K.

Launching the Writing Workshop

Launching the Writing Workshop
Author: Lucy Calkins
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2023
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780325128504

"In this resource, you'll find four units of study for each grade level that fit tongue-in-groove alongside each other, each accounting for about five weeks of teaching. Each new unit in the sequence helps students consolidate, use, and build upon what they have already learned. Each of the four units offers a sequenced set of daily sessions that invite students along a path of writing development in one of three genres: narrative, information or explanation, and opinion or argument writing. This is unit 1 of the series is intended for Grade K"--