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Elaboration
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a QUOTE to your writing!
Ben
Franklin's Writing Quote
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The
Write Guy's --Writing Rubric New
and Persuasive Writing Song
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Metaphors!
Paint
by Idiom
Ralph
Fletcher's Tips for Young
Writers
Global
Pen Pals
E-pals
around the world
EPals
Literature to enhance narrative
writing:
*Flying Solo by
Ralph Fletcher
*Rope
Burn by Jan Siebold
*Utterly
Yours, Booker Jones by Betsy Duffey
Literature
to enhance journal writing: I'm
in Charge of Celebrations
by Byrd Baylor
Literature to enhance
writing: Birthday
Surprises
by Joanna Hurwitz
A wonderful collection of responses by famous authors to the same prompt
PLUS a Kids Wings Literature Guide!
A story told in the first person:
A Dog on His Own by M. J. Auch
by Randall Jarrell The
wonders of DAY from a bat's point of view! Now, stay up late into
the night and write about all the wonders YOU see and hear! With a
Kids Wings Literature Guide |
HOW
TO TEACH WRITING
HOW
TO TEACH STORY WRITING
Some
Thoughts on SPELLING
and SPELLING TESTS
Story
Starter
Story
Prompts
Conversation
Plus Song
A
Picture Story Starter
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Writing Rubric
Proofreading
Tips
Lofty
Allocades
Topics
for Personal Journals
Point of View Journals
Interjections!
Schoolhouse Rock
Winning
Essays
Palindromes
 Flip
Books for Sentence Construction
Books
recommended as writing models:
The War That Saved My Life
A historical fiction account of courage during the Battle of
Britain told in a first person voice. Newbery
Honor Book by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. With Kids
Wings Literature Guide.
Fair Weather
by Richard Peck, an hysterical historical fiction novel about the World's
Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893, written in the first person voice!
Kids
Wings Literature Guide
Because of Mr. Terupt
Narrative Writing told in multiple VOICES with
a Kids Wings Literature Guide
Literature to enhance informative
writing: The
Totally Terrific Valentine Party Book
by Judith Bauer Stamper
As a Literary
Model:
The Totally Terrific
Valentine Party Book
For
Reading, give students copies of the book to read the procedures,
then follow and create. For Writing, have
kids write new procedures (using the writing model) for a DIFFERENT
holiday! Authentic reading and writing! |
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Write it briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate
it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately
so they will be guided by its light.
Joseph Pulitzer
The difference in winning and losing is most often ... not quitting.
Walt Disney
Of
all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is
writing well. Andre Breton
A writer is someone for whom writing
is harder than it is for other people. Thomas Mann
Good Writing Takes TIME! Judge
your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
It is the supreme
art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Winners (and writers)
are the people who when the odds are stacked against them, and those
around them have fallen, will have the courage to look within themselves
and make the unbelievable believable, and the impossible possible.
— C. Phillips
Never grow a WISHBONE
where a BACKBONE ought to be. Clementine
Paddleford
Why is a story writer a very peculiar
creature? Because his tale (tail) grows out of
his head.
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