Writing Frames: 40 Activities for Learning the Writing Process

By Jean L. Pottle

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0825137373
• ISBN13: 9780825137372
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Walch Education
• Length: 137 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent homeschool writing tool

I have been using this book with my two older sons (grades 6 and 8) this year. It's kinda like Mad-Libs for older kids, in paragraph form. In the early lessons, they fill in the blanks in the frame and then edit and revise to produce a final draft. Later, the students are taught to use webbing to brainstorm before filling in the frame. Both my sons were reluctant writers and I was a reluctant writing teacher, but this book, along with the Writing Strands books, has made a huge difference in their approach to writing. One now loves to write and the other, well, he doesn't hate it anymore. I'm ordering the follow-up Writing Frames book for 7-9th graders to use next year. I highly recommend Writing Frames (especially if you use it in tandem or the year before Writing Strands). It's almost painless!

I hope this helps!

I was told about this book at a workshop. It looks great! It is a good book to use at the beginning of the school year because it gives students a chance to build up their writing ego! :-)