25 Ways to Be a Better Writer
by Paul F. Johnson
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Ages: 11-18 Grades: 6th-Adult
125 Ways to Be a Better Writer will improve your students’ functional writing skills, guaranteed! Functional writing lays an important foundation for a successful life. Your students will learn to write clearly and effectively in their daily lives with this comprehensive, strategy-based approach.
Benefits
- Helps students organize and express their thoughts clearly on paper
- Helps students think about how they communicate
- Teaches writing strategies for a variety of specific writing skills
- Easy to use as an entire program or as an isolated group of strategies
- Prepares students for the job market and writing business transactions
Features
- Provides a step-by-step instructional approach for a variety of writing skills
- Contains plenty of activity sheets to practice the skills
- Contains project pages to move skills into practical, everyday applications
- Provides writing examples for students to model
- Includes high-interest writing topics
- Includes strategies for e-mail writing
- Written in language kids understand
- Includes an Answer Key
There has been only one F. Scott Fitzgerald and one William Shakespeare on this earth. But there are thousands of Maria Lopezes, Rhonda Blankenships, Shel Liebowitzes, and others just like the students you teach. This book is for your students—the students who write when they mean its, who mix verb tenses without realizing it, and who can’t seem to get onto paper what’s so clearly in their heads.
Your students will learn to communicate clearly and effectively through writing with 125 helpful strategies, including:
- 7 ways to write better sentences
- 7 ways to write better paragraphs
- 3 ways to use prewriting
- 4 ways to write first drafts
- 6 ways to revise
- 3 ways to proofread
- 8 ways to write about opinions
- 5 ways to write personal letters
- 6 ways to write personal essays
- and much more!
125 Ways to Be a Better Writer is a comprehensive, strategy-based approach to writing instruction. Each unit contains strategies for good writing; activity sheets to practice the strategies; and project pages to move the practice into practical, everyday application.
Your students are not put up to standards of the great novelists, poets, and essayists with these activities, but they are taught to acquire skills that will allow them to communicate clearly and effectively through writing. They’ll think about how they write and communicate and use what they already know to write better. Many of the exercises ask students to think and write creatively—not as attempts to turn them into great artists, but as challenges to keep them writing clearly no matter the situation or subject matter.
Use this book as an entire program or as an isolated group of strategies (for example, use only the Business Letter Writing section). Either way, your students are sure to learn to be more effective writers in their daily lives with 125 Ways to Be a Better Writer.
Components
166 pages, answer key
Note:
The free CD is NOT software and is not interactive. Instead, the CD contains reproducible pages from the book in PDF Format, allowing you to open pages from the book, view them on screen, and print them from your own printer. You cannot modify or edit the text on the pages.