Step Up To Writing 2nd Edition Teacher's Manual

Improve the writing skills of all your students, regardless of ability level, with these classroom-proven teaching strategies and student writing activities. Used with great success by thousands of teachers, these strategies are collected in this easy-to-use book to help teachers: -Teach students to write clear and organized paragraphs, reports, and essays -Raise class writing opportunities in which students experience success and then build on that success -Enable students to complete assignments -Prepare students for real-world writing -Create a sense of excitement about reading, writing, and learning. This book provides simple, manageable steps for organizing ideas and information, writing topic sentences and thesis statements, connecting main ideas, including supporting details, writing conclusions, thinking creatively, and other components of effective writing. Dozens of examples and reproducible activity sheets make instruction and practice easy and effective. The Step Up To Writing program includes: -Topic sentence methods -Accordion Paragraphs and Essays -Suggested topics for writing -Four-step summary paragraphs -Informal outlines -Quick Sketch stories -Rubrics and scoring guides -Active reading and listening strategies -Easy Two-Column Notes.