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Writing Skills (14 products)
Grade Level: First Grade, Second Grade,
Third Grade 
-Creative ideas for daily writing practice Get your students started on the "write" foot with this teaching resource book. Inside you'll find skill-building activities and reproducibles, seasonal writing ideas, writing-based bulletin boards, and more. It's everything you need to improve students' writing and make writing more fun in one tremendous resource from THE MAILBOX® magazine. Each idea is teacher tested, practical, fun, and -best of all-guaranteed to successfully build your students' writing skills. In this book you'll find ideas for the following:
If you want your students to love learning the essentials of writing, then this teaching resource is for you! 112 pages.
Grade Level: Second Grade
Finally...a resource that gives you exactly what you need for differentiation! It takes a variety of activities to keep second graders engaged. No two learners are the same! Grade-specific reproducible activities address a variety of learning styles and abilities. The activities are flexible and easy to manage—just choose the right page for every learner. 80 pages.
Grade Level: Third Grade
Finally...a resource that gives you exactly what you need for differentiation! It takes a variety of activities to keep third graders engaged. No two learners are the same! Grade-specific reproducible activities address a variety of learning styles and abilities. The activities are flexible and easy to manage—just choose the right page for every learner. 80 pages. Grade Level: First, Second, Third Grade
3 Levels of Learning! Features:
Enhance your writing program with this standards-based writing resource or use as a stand-alone teaching tool for young writers! Reach each student with a step-by-step, systematic approach to teaching writing. 36 standards-based mini-lessons develop a structure of good writing habits—organization, ideas and content, word choice and voice, and conventions—and can be used either in sequential order or to strengthen specific writing weaknesses. The lessons give clear examples of strong writing, offer corresponding book lists based on authentic literature, and provide tips for emergent readers. Included are a skills matrix that identifies modes (narrative, expository, descriptive, persuasive, letter writing, and poetry) and reproducible activity sheets for writing skills at three different levels—basic, intermediate, and challenging. Use this teacher resource book to increase student motivation, reinforce core skills and offer practice to students preparing for writing assessments. Supports NCTE standards. Pages: 160
Grade Level: Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd Grade
This resource includes many quick, easy, colorful, and fun literacy activities and games for you to use with your students. Whether you are a first-year teacher or a seasoned veteran, you will be overjoyed at the wealth of materials included in this book to supplement your literacy program. This book provides a variety of unique hands-on activities and games that encourage language exploration. Students will participate in activities that focus on reading and writing. As a result, students develop literacy skills in ways that meet individual learning needs. Each lesson defines the literacy skill and the different ways of student grouping. The lesson states clear and simple directions to allow you to quickly assemble the learning activities for your students, substitute teachers, and/or take-home activities. Most of the materials needed for the activities are included in the book. Since many of the activities are generic, they can be adapted to meet a variety of individual needs. This book offers new and creative ideas and a fresh twist on commonly-used activities to help teachers save time and assist children in being successful literacy students. Pages: 176 Grade Level: Kindergarten, First - Second
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This teaching resource book includes a variety of activities including:
The activities target standards in these areas:
Pages: 80 Grade Level: Second Grade
Includes practice for Standardized Tests! Both teachers and parents appreciate how effectively this resource book helps students master skills in writing. It provides activities that are great for independent work in class, homework assignments, or extra practice to get ahead. This is a resource to help students practice and reinforce skills taught in the classroom. This book presents paragraph skills that are appropriate for second graders. It is divided into 7 main sections. Each of those sections is based on one of the following objectives that second grade students should meet:
A review section at the beginning of the book covers some of the basics of writing: kinds of sentences; the correct use of punctuation, grammar, and capitalization; and spelling. Following the review, there are exercises that provide practice in paragraph planning and organizing, revising, proofing, and editing. Attention is also given to individual sentence structure and content within paragraphs as well as the mechanics of writing: grammar, punctuation capitalization, and spelling. At the end of each section, there are assessments to evaluate a student's progress in each of the skills practiced (planning, organizing, revising, proofing, and editing). At the end of the book, a final assessment covers all five skills. It is in standardized test format to help students practice test-taking as well as paragraph writing skills. In addition, there is an assessment that requires the student to write an original paragraph. Pages: 48 Grade Level: Third Grade
Includes practice for Standardized Tests! Both teachers and parents appreciate how effectively this resource book helps students master skills in writing. It provides activities that are great for independent work in class, homework assignments, or extra practice to get ahead. This is a resource to help students practice and reinforce skills taught in the classroom. This book presents paragraph skills that are appropriate for third graders. It is divided into 6 main sections. Each of those sections is based on one of the following objectives that third grade students should meet:
Throughout this teaching resource book, students are asked to think critically and apply these skills. Students write various types of sentences and paragraphs, practice word usage and grammar, and work at revising their work. In the last section of the book, students can organize their own ideas and write original paragraphs and a friendly letter. In addition, their is a "Unit Assessment" that is presented in standardized test format so that students can practice their answers as they might see them in other settings. Pages: 48 Grade Level: Fourth Grade
Includes practice for Standardized Tests! Both teachers and parents appreciate how effectively this resource book helps students master skills in writing. It provides activities that are great for independent work in class, homework assignments, or extra practice to get ahead. This is a resource to help students practice and reinforce skills taught in the classroom. It reviews basic composition skills for fourth graders. The exercises in this teaching resource can be done sequentially or can be taken out of order, as needed. The following standards or objectives will be met or reinforced by completing the practice pages included in this teacher resource book. These standards and objectives are similar to the ones required by your state and school district because they are considered appropriate for fourth graders.
Pages: 48 Grade Level: Grades 4-12
Captivate readers, ace writing tests, and express yourself clearly—Marko the Pencil will show you how. His Writer’s Toolbox, packed with easy-to-implement strategies, will take your writing from mediocre to magnificent. Stories, essays, term papers, or standardized tests—whatever you write, Marko gives you proven strategies for getting remarkable results. This is the fun way to sharpen your writing skills. Winner of 4 awards! • Parents' Choice Silver Honor Join in the fun as Marko helps a friend develop a real writing passage—demonstrating each of his tools in action. You’ll learn how to: This animated adventure is ideal for classroom use as well as individual practice. Although it was designed and tested with students in fourth grade, our team of educators discovered that students in higher grades (even high school and college) benefited from the review of writing tools and how to effectively integrate all of them into a writing passage. We have included a special bonus section: Marko shows you how to proofread your work, and he reveals secrets to score well on multiple-choice writing tests. Plus, you will find free downloadable posters and support material at Marko’s special website. All of the students using this program during our research loved watching it and commented that many of the writing concepts that they had heard about in school finally made sense to them. Spectacular animation and Marko’s humor keep students focused. We suggest that the main program be viewed at a separate session from the bonus material. The main Writing Program is 34 minutes in length. Students may review certain tools at any time, easily accessible from the DVD menu. Proofing and Editing, Marko’s bonus material is 37 minutes in length and helps students catch careless errors in their work. Students learn to proof for errors involving paragraphs, quotes, incomplete sentences, subject-verb agreement, misspelled words, punctuation, and much more. Marko the Pencil is played by actor Vic Mignogna, Best Actor 2007, American Anime Awards and voice for many popular video games. Writing Strategies is perfect for boosting performance on any writing assignment, state-mandated writing test, or other type of writing exam. Students gain the skills they need to approach writing with fun and confidence. Writing Strategies includes: • Marko’s Song BONUS MATERIAL Total running time: Approx. 70 minutes
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