By Mary Ellen Ledbetter
Classroom-tested tools for enhancing secondary scholars' writing skills
The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day deals academics, homeschoolers, and oldsters one hundred eighty ready-to-use, reproducible actions that increase writing talents in secondary scholars. in line with Ledbetter's vast event consulting to language arts academics and faculty districts around the nation, the classroom-tested actions incorporated during this booklet train scholars key literary and writing phrases like allegory, elaboration, irony, personification, propaganda, voice, and more--and offer them with attractive examples that function types for his or her personal quickly Writes.
- Contains writing activates and pattern passages in student-friendly language that connects summary literary options to scholars' personal lives
- Written by means of renowned workshop presenter and veteran educator Mary Ellen Ledbetter
- Offers a straightforward, value-packed source for instructing writing skills
Designed for English language arts lecturers in grades 6-12, tutors, mom and dad, studying experts, homeschoolers, and consultants.
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Just once. That’s all. ACTIVITY Write an adjective to describe the narrator’s father. Underline the actions that prove your theory. The Writing Teacher’s Activity-a-Day 25 Characterization: Appearance One method of characterization is to describe the appearance of a person. EXAMPLE: Maybe it was because someone had to lift the massive objects from the pickup truck, and Virgil was always on hand. Or maybe it was all that chinning and monkey-climbing and rope-swinging Virgil and his brothers did all the time—like any kids passing long, hot days together.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Don’t cry over spilt milk. Easy come, easy go. Knowledge is power. Slow but steady wins the race. Little pitchers have big ears. Finders keepers, losers weepers. Misery loves company. ACTIVITY 1. List at least three other adages. 2. Choose three adages and in your own words explain their meaning. 2 The Writing Teacher’s Activity-a-Day Copyright © 2010 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. Rome wasn’t built in a day. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.
3. I won’t swat a fly because it could be my great, great, even-greaterthan-that Aunt Bertha. 4. When someone puts someone down, I want to help him back up. 5. Sleep is the best—I can fast-forward, pause, or rewind. 6. I’ve always wanted to be a cat to stretch out all day in that one special shaft of sunlight. 8. When I’m upset, I read a book and become any character I choose. 9. My mother told me when I was a child that practicing balancing books on my head would make me look regal and chic; I still do it.
