Writing Teacher's Book of Lists

This unique information source and time-saver for English and language arts teachers provides over 70 useful lists for developing instructional materials and planning lessons for elementary and secondary students. In addition, it includes 89 innovative activities and reproducible line master worksheets that motivate students to simultaneously improve writing skills, word usage, and vocabulary. For quick access and easy use, all of these lists and activities are organized into six sections and individually printed in a format that can be photocopied as many times as required for individual or group instruction. SPECIAL WORDS & WORD GROUPSA-Section 1 contains lists and activities such as Synonyms and Antonyms (A"Synonym and Antonym Word FindA") ... Hard-to-Spell Words (A"Spelling Bee with a TwistA") ... Compound Words (A"How Many Can You Find?A") ... and Easily Confused Words (A"Spaceman in the BackyardA"). NONFICTION WRITINGA-Section 2 presents lists an dactivities for nonfiction writing, such as Ecology Words (A"Changing PlacesA") ... Education Words (A"If I Were TeacherA") ... Government and Politics Words (A"Student Bill of RightsA") ... and Sports Words (A"Be a Sports WriterA"). FICTION WRITINGA-Among the lists and activities in Section 3 are Adventure and Romance Words (A"The Complete CharacterA") ... Folklore Words (A"Invent a FolkloreA") ... Words of Mythology (A"Modern MythsA") ... and Western Words (A"Going Backward in TimeA"). WRITING STYLEA-The lists and activities in Section 4 include Analogies (A"Check the RelationshipA") ... Cliches (A"The Major Mix-upA") ... Redundant Phrases (A"The Big TestA") ... and Transitional Words and Phrases (A"Why Students Succeed or FailA"). CHECKLISTSA-Section 5 offers a variety of helpful writer's checklists and related activities, including Prewriting Checklist (A"It's Your PickA") ... Target Audience Checklist (A"Persuading Your PeersA") ... Revision Checklist (A"Self-EditingA") and Proofreading Checklist (A"Proofreading PracticeA"). REFERENCE LISTSA-The last section includes 29 valuable writer's reference lists, including an Annotated List of Library References ... Bibliography and Footnote Formats ... Books About Writers and Writing for Students ... Common Foreign Words and Phrases ... Common Initializations ... Tips for Answering Essay Tests ... Proofreading Marks ... Markets for Student Writing ... and more. The Writing Teacher's Book of Lists places in your hands a ready store of good examples, key words, teachable content, and teaching ideas and activities that might otherwise take years and much effort to compile.Muschla, Gary R. is the author of 'Writing Teacher's Book of Lists' with ISBN 9780139711695 and ISBN 0139711694.