Real-Life Writing Activities for Young Authors: Ready-to-Use Writing Process Activities for Grades 4-9

By Cherlyn Sunflower

This terrific resource for elementary teachers of grades 4 9 will help you reinforce your language arts curriculum and meet state and national standards, and at the same time ties into units in science, health, math, social studies, and literature. Real-Life Writing Activities for Young Authors contains 40 complete model writing lessons and over 100 reproducibles that capture students attention, build their writing skills, and teach them the writing process. Each lesson involves practical writing tasks students can easily relate to in their own lives from writing a movie review to writing an advice column solution letter. This useful resource is divided into five sections Descriptive Compositions, Directional Compositions, Persuasive Compositions, Narrative Compositions, and Poems & Songs. It outlines for you step-by-step lesson instructions, examples of what to write on the chalkboard, and suggestions for responding to students writing in encouraging ways. Printed in a big 8 1/4" x 11" spiral-bound format, this idea-filled book folds flat for easy photocopying.

• Format: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876284489
• ISBN13: 9780876284483
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 457 Pages