{"product_id":"the-writing-teachers-activity-a-day-isbn-9780470461327","title":"The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day","description":"\u003cb\u003eClassroom-tested methods for boosting secondary students' writing skills\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day\u003c\/i\u003e offers teachers, homeschoolers, and parents 180 ready-to-use, reproducible activities that enhance writing skills in secondary students. Based on Ledbetter's extensive experience consulting to language arts teachers and school districts across the country, the classroom-tested activities included in this book teach students key literary and writing terms like allegory, elaboration, irony, personification, propaganda, voice, and more--and provide them with engaging examples that serve as models for their own Quick Writes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains writing prompts and sample passages in student-friendly language that connects abstract literary concepts to students' own lives\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten by popular workshop presenter and veteran educator Mary Ellen Ledbetter\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a user-friendly, value-packed resource for teaching writing skills\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesigned for English language arts teachers in grades 6-12, tutors, parents, learning specialists, homeschoolers, and consultants.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Makes This Book Different v\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Author xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAction Verbs as a Method of Elaboration 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdages 2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdjectives as a Method of Elaboration 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdverbs as a Method of Elaboration: Practice # 1 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdverbs as a Method of Elaboration: Practice # 2 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAllegory 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlliteration 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAllusion 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnalogy 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnecdote 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAntagonist 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eApplication and Synthesis 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAssessing Prompts: Determining Mode of Writing 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAssonance 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAutobiographical Collage 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiography 17\u003c\/p\u003e 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Practice 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSentence Variety: Sentence Combining (Participial Phrase) 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSentence Variety: Participial Phrase Practice 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSentence Variety: Sentence Combining (Adverb Clause) 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSentence Variety: Adverb Clause Practice 174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSentence Variety: Sentence Combining (Adjective Clause) 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSentence Variety: Adjective Clause Practice 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSimiles as Methods of Voice in a Paragraph 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSimiles as Practice in Developing Voice 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSnapshot Poem 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStructure Rubric for One-Paragraph Essay 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubjunctive Mood of Verbs 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSymbol 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThank-You Note 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheme: Building Themes into Essays 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThemes: Works Built Around a Theme 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransitions: More Sophisticated Methods (Persuasive Essay) 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransitions: More Sophisticated Methods (Expository Essay) 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerb Tense Shift 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVocabulary: I Don’t Think So 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVocabulary: Which Word? 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVocabulary: What If? 193\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARY ELLEN LEDBETTER, M.A.\u003c\/b\u003e, is a noted presenter and educational consultant specializing in boosting language arts skills in K–12 students. She has extensive teaching experience in public schools as well as at the college level. Her previous books include \u003ci\u003eReady-To-Use English Workshop Activities Writing Portfolio Activities Kit Something for Every Day, All About Me\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eYou Say—I Say\u003c\/i\u003e.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The most difficult area to teach in language arts is writing, and this text now makes it easier—it will become a teacher's best friend! The book is the perfect marriage to the writer's workshop lesson plan model, giving specific examples of writing for each necessary skill to be taught, and will surely enhance and support your mini-lessons. Implementing these activities will help both the student and teacher grow as writers. In 33 years of teaching language arts, I've never seen anything like it!\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eDonna Kortvelesy, MS, NBCT,\u003c\/b\u003e professional development specialist, Millville Public Schools, Millville, New Jersey  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Anytime I see a book by Mary Ellen Ledbetter, I grab hold of several copies for use in my classrooms and trainings. Teachers beg for them! In \u003ci\u003eThe Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day\u003c\/i\u003e, she has taken the objectives that are so hard for students to grasp and for educators to teach and has put together an easy-to-read, easy-to-teach book of amazing activities for everyday use.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eJanet Coleman, Ed. 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