Writing prompts designed to engage modern-day writers take inspiration from mythology, literature, science, current events, and self-reflection.

A New Leaf: Ideas for Writing Inspired by Trees

Reference

Samston, M.S.

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Cottonwood Pr

Help your students improve their vocabularies with More AbraVocabra, a sequel to the popular AbraVocabra. The book includes 24 lists of 12 words—all words taken from newspapers, magazines, and television. The words are practical words that any reasonably educated person is likely to encounter in real life. More AbraVocabra includes the following:
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<li>“tip-off” sentences to help students figure out what the words mean;</li>
<li>simple, student-friendly definitions;</li>
<li>lots of ideas for getting the students to use, and thus learn, the words;</li>
<li>interesting tests that do more than ask students to “regurgitate” definitions; and</li>
<li>playing cards and instructions for the “Vocabra” game.</li>
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More AbraVocabra has everything a teacher needs to help students expand their vocabularies. The AbraVocabra approach really works!

More AbraVocabara: The Amazingly Sensible Approach to Teaching Vocabulary (Abravocabra)

Children's Books

Education & Reference

Prufrock Press

Your students will really pay attention when you use "Phunny Stuph." Jokes and humorous urban legends make up all 100 proofreading exercises in this useful book. Use the exercises as transparencies to start class, or photocopy them to pass out to your students. The errors include a little bit of everything--missing punctuation, spelling mistakes, errors in usage, sentence fragments, and more. Each exercise includes teaching notes and an example of a possible correction. Most exercises are short--just right for quick, frequent lessons that will really help your students improve their skills. "Phunny Stuph" helps students sharpen their skills at recognizing and correcting errors in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, sentence structure and usage. However, it also does much more than that. It provides teaching opportunities.

Phunny Stuph: Proofreading Exercises With a Sense of Humor (Grades 7-12)

Routledge

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