Basic Tools For Beginning Writers

Author : Betty Schultze
Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781551382210

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Basic Tools for Beginning Writers by Betty Schultze Pdf

This practical book offers effective and creative activities that help young students master the skills they need to grow as writers. Among the topics discussed, the book thoroughly explores the important beginning steps, such as: putting pencil to paper;identifying and printing letters of the alphabet; exploring sound-symbol matches. Basic Tools for Beginning Writers recognizes that story and image are good ways to introduce students to concepts. The making of a simple word such as "go" is told as a story, the combining of onsets with rhymes seen as a slide, and the learning of the alphabet is shown as a rap or jive. Game formats designed to stimulate learning incorporate all aspects of language--talk, phonemes, words, and sentences. Throughout the book, teachers will find "Making It Simpler" and "Increasing the Challenge" sections to help adapt activities to the needs of both struggling and more accomplished students. Teachers will find many opportunities to incorporate essential skills in everyday routines that range from the four stages of the Morning Message to techniques for promoting printing, writing and reading in learning centers.

Author : Steve Peha,Margot Carmichael Lester
Publisher : Leverage Factory
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Authorship
ISBN : 9780977300013

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Be a Better Writer - Power Tools for Young Writers! (Essential Tips, Exercises and Techniques for Aspiring Writers) by Steve Peha,Margot Carmichael Lester Pdf

"Here's the book that will help you take your writing to the next level"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Betty Schultze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1551388650

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Basic Tools for Beginning Writers by Betty Schultze Pdf

Author : Janine Reid
Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781551388366

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What's Next for this Beginning Writer? Revision by Janine Reid Pdf

Based on the work of real students, this comprehensive book answers the most common questions about teaching writing, and presents a series of mini-lessons in step-by-step format.

Author : Katherine Luongo-Orlando
Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781551382579

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The Cornerstones to Early Literacy by Katherine Luongo-Orlando Pdf

How can we build a strong literacy foundation for children? This book appreciates that learning and language development start with the play episodes, oral language practices, wordplay activities, print encounters, reading events, and writing experiences that children engage in during the early years of life. Filled with rich language activities, The Cornerstones to Early Literacy shows teachers how to create active learning experiences that are essential to building early literacy. This comprehensive handbook is organized around the following topics: Play Experiences - Understanding the early stages of learning and all aspects of the play-literacy connection ; Oral Language - Supporting opportunities for child talk with suggested conversation starters and events that involve personal timelines and storytelling ; Language Awareness and Word Play - Creating a balanced approach to language learning using games and activities that involve literature, music, choral speaking, sound games, and more ; Print Encounters - Discovering, reproducing, and creating all forms of environmental print ; Reading Events - Integrating read-aloud and shared book experiences with proven strategies for supporting and observing young readers ; Writing Experiences - Identifying early writing characteristics and techniques for moving children along in their writing.

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476770222

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To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway Pdf

To Have and Have Not is the dramatic, brutal story of Harry Morgan, an honest boat owner who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who swarm the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair. In this harshly realistic, yet oddly tender and wise novel, Hemingway perceptively delineates the personal struggles of both the “haves” and the “have nots” and creates one of the most subtle and moving portraits of a love affair in his oeuvre. In turn funny and tragic, lively and poetic, remarkable in its emotional impact, To Have and Have Not takes literary high adventure to a new level. As the Times Literary Supplement observed, “Hemingway's gift for dialogue, for effective understatement, and for communicating such emotions the tough allow themselves, has never been more conspicuous.”

Author : Randy Ingermanson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Creative writing
ISBN : 1500574058

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How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method by Randy Ingermanson Pdf

The Snowflake Method-ten battle-tested steps that jump-start your creativity and help you quickly map out your story.

Author : Jennifer Hallissy
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0834823217

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The Write Start by Jennifer Hallissy Pdf

How do you raise children who love to write? Jennifer Hallissy believes that if you give children a solid foundation of writing basics, they will develop a love of writing that lasts a lifetime. In this book, she shares the secrets for supporting young writers, from the smallest of scribblers to middle-schoolers mastering script. You play an important role in nurturing your child's writing development. You are your child's first writing teacher, and their most important writing role model. From teaching your child how to hold a pencil and form the letters of the alphabet, to creating writing spaces and meaningful writing rituals at home, this book gives you all of the information and inspiration you need to raise a confident writer. Fifty-two playful activities are presented as ways to invite your child to write. Each activity offers specific suggestions to meet the needs of Scribblers (pre-writers), Spellers (emerging writers), Storytellers (beginner writers), and Scholars (more experienced young writers)—providing the just-right combination of fun and functional skill development. The Write Start is a treasure trove of irresistible ideas that will help you introduce your child to the wonderful world of writing, now, and for years to come.

Author : Angela Stockman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 0986104930

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Mark Writing by Angela Stockman Pdf

In Make Writing, everyone's favorite education blogger and writing coach, Angela Stockman, turns teaching strategies and practice upside down. She spills you out of your chair, shreds your lined paper, and launches you and your writer's workshop into the maker space! Who even knew this was possible?

Author : Roy Peter Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-21
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN : 0316145920

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Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark Pdf

One of America 's most influential writing teachers offers a toolbox from which writers of all kinds can draw practical inspiration. "Writing is a craft you can learn," says Roy Peter Clark. "You need tools, not rules." His book distills decades of experience into 50 tools that will help any writer become more fluent and effective. WRITING TOOLS covers everything from the most basic ("Tool 5: Watch those adverbs") to the more complex ("Tool 34: Turn your notebook into a camera") and provides more than 200 examples from literature and journalism to illustrate the concepts. For students, aspiring novelists, and writers of memos, e-mails, PowerPoint presentations, and love letters, here are 50 indispensable, memorable, and usable tools. "Pull out a favorite novel or short story, and read it with the guidance of Clark 's ideas. . . . Readers will find new worlds in familiar places. And writers will be inspired to pick up their pens." - Boston Globe "For all the aspiring writers out there-whether you're writing a novel or a technical report-a respected scholar pulls back the curtain on the art." - Atlanta Journal-Constitution "This is a useful tool for writers at all levels of experience, and it's entertainingly written, with plenty of helpful examples." -Booklist.

Author : Noella Mackenzie,Janet Scull
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317200949

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Understanding and Supporting Young Writers from Birth to 8 by Noella Mackenzie,Janet Scull Pdf

As the world comes to grips with what it means to be literate in the twenty-first century, Understanding and Supporting Young Writers from Birth to 8 provides practitioners with the skills and knowledge they need to support young children effectively as they learn to write. Interweaving theory and research with everyday practice, the book offers guidance on all aspects of writing, from creating multimodal texts and building children’s vocabulary, to providing support for children who find writing particularly challenging. With appropriate strategies to develop young children’s writing from an early age included throughout, the book discusses the role of oral language in early writing in detail and explores the key relationships between ‘drawing and talking’, ‘drawing and writing’ and ‘drawing, talking and writing’. Each chapter also features samples of writing and drawing to illustrate key points, as well as reflective questions to help the reader apply ideas in their own settings. Further topics covered include: progressions in children’s writing writing in the pre-school years developing authorial skills developing editorial skills teaching writing to EAL learners. Understanding and Supporting Young Writers from Birth to 8 is a unique resource that will help early childhood educators, early years school teachers, specialist practitioners working with very young children, and students enrolled in Early Childhood or Primary Studies courses to boost their confidence in teaching young learners as they become writers.

Author : Rowan Kidd
Publisher : Scientific e-Resources
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781839472916

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Journalism, Reporting, Writing and Editing by Rowan Kidd Pdf

The present book has been brought into being in view of incessant demand pertaining to the subject Journalism, inherently requires that stories be told in-depth. Many newspapers have cut out long articles even before the Internet. They have followed the example set by television news. They have been hit by the rising price of newsprint, and the renewed emphasis on cost cutting. They are convinced that readers are pressed for time, impatient with detail, and conditioned to ingest the news in pellet-like form. The bulk of broadcast news is reporting in the sense that is used is different rather than journalism. It is epitomized by the two-minute wire service radio bulletin on the hour already a fast disappearing format. In this incisive and well-presented work, the book has synthesized the findings to lay down principles of sound journalism for both those in the industry and the citizens, who rely on the free press as a fundamental element of democracy. First and foremost among these principles is journalism's obligation to the truth. It will immensely benefit students, teachers, mass communicators, theoreticians and practitioners alike. Something usable today, a ready reckoner for years to come and a collector's item for all times. A must read endurable and preservable

Author : Elizabeth Petrick-Steward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136478826

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Beginning Writers in the Zone of Proximal Development by Elizabeth Petrick-Steward Pdf

How do young children bridge the gap between "writing" a story with pictures and writing with words? How children learn to use written words to tell a story is a topic important to both cognitive development and early literacy instruction. Using the theoretical framework developed by Vygotsky, the behavior of a group of prekindergarten children as they author two consecutive pieces of writing is analyzed. The children tell their stories at first with spoken words and pictures. As they discuss their work-in-progress in public conferences, they discover how to build on and combine existing skills to produce a new skill -- telling stories with written words. Current descriptive and theoretical perspectives on beginning writing are presented in this volume, with a particular focus on Vygotsky's concept of the zone of proximal development, a period of sensitivity in which learning advances. The proposed mechanism of change is verbal mediation -- talk among peers and teachers as they discuss work-in-progress -- which moves the children through the zone of proximal development. An open, whole-language approach to literacy instruction makes the classroom in this book an ideal arena in which to observe verbal mediation in operation. Children are free to question, criticize and argue; and in the process they collectively advance their developing ability to use written language. The work is unique in that the rich and comprehensive data record is reproduced in its entirety. More than 400 illustrations of the children's products -- two "books" apiece, pictured before and after the children's revisions -- are included, along with transcripts of the conferences about each of the pages, permitting direct observation of the effects of verbal mediation. This dynamic study documents change during a period of time when specific learning is occurring, and provides strong support for the value and power of Vygotsky's theoretical framework.

Author : Linda Dorn,Carla Soffos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003842033

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Scaffolding Young Writers by Linda Dorn,Carla Soffos Pdf

The goal of teaching writing is to create independent and self-motivated writers. When students write more often, they become better at writing. They acquire habits, skills, and strategies that enable them to learn more about the craft of writing. Yet they require the guidance and support of a more knowledgeable person who understands the writing process, the changes over time in writing development, and specific techniques and procedures for teaching writing. In Scaffolding Young Writers: A Writers' Workshop Approach , Linda J. Dorn and Carla Soffos present a clear road map for implementing writers' workshop in the primary grades. Adopting an apprenticeship approach, the authors show how explicit teaching, good models, clear demonstrations, established routines, assisted teaching followed by independent practice, and self-regulated learning are all fundamental in establishing a successful writers' workshop. There is a detailed chapter on organizing for writers' workshop, including materials, components, routines, and procedures. Other chapters provide explicit guidelines for designing productive mini-lessons and student conferences. Scaffolding Young Writers also features: An overview of how children become writers; Analyses of students' samples according to informal and formal writing assessments Writing checklists, benchmark behaviors, and rubrics based on national standards Examples of teaching interactions during mini-lessons and writing conferences Illustrations of completed forms and checklists with detailed descriptions, and blank reproducible forms in the appendix for classroom use Instruction is linked with assessment throughout the book, so that all teaching interactions are grounded in what children already know and what they need to know as they develop into independent writers.

Author : David L. Coker,Kristen D. Ritchey
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781462520145

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Teaching Beginning Writers by David L. Coker,Kristen D. Ritchey Pdf

An essential "how-to" primer, this book examines the process of learning to write and shares evidence-based instructional strategies for the primary grades. With an emphasis on explicit instruction and scaffolding students' learning, the authors explain when and how to teach handwriting, spelling, foundational skills such as sentence formation and editing, and composition in specific genres. They present clear-cut techniques for assessment, differentiation, and supporting struggling writers. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for Writing are used as a framework for setting instructional goals. Reproducible assessment forms, checklists, and rubrics are provided; purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.