<p>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.</p>

25 Quick Mini-Lessons To Teach Narrative Writing

Education & Teaching

Leochko, Dave

Schools & Teaching

Scholastic Teaching Resources

<p>Written for grades 4 7 teachers and students, Guiding Readers Through Non-Fiction is an easy-to-use resource. It provides essential background information on the nature of nonfiction and how to use nonfiction in small guided-reading groups. The book is filled with many ready-to-use student handouts, graphic organizers, rubrics, assessment checklists, and planning guidelines. In this resource, you will find: teaching suggestions and strategies to help students engage with various forms of nonfiction necessary information for implementing guided-reading practices in the classroom effective strategies to incorporate successful small-group instruction in the classroom plans and suggestions for structuring the guided-reading lesson</p>

Guiding Readers Through Non-Fiction: Effective Strategies for Small-Group Instruction

Rossi, Tom

Portage & Main Press

Editing—the next step in writing once the key ideas are put on paper—can be difficult to teach. For teachers, it is often difficult to find lessons to engage students in the process. For students, editing is frequently an afterthought. In Key Strategies for Teaching Editing, the authors present interesting meaningful ways to teach students good editing skills. Leochko and Rossi also show how students who use these editing skills can become good writers. Key Strategies is divided into three sections: punctuation, grammar, and spelling. Each section has several lessons. Each lesson includes: Reference Sheet — mini-lesson about rules and usage Editing Sheet — authentic piece of writing that gives students opportunities to apply writing conventions in meaningful ways Answer Key — answers for the editing sheet

Key Strategies for Teaching Editing: Punctuation, Grammar, and Spelling

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

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