Story Crafting: Classroom-Ready Materials for Teaching Fiction Writing Skills in the High School Grades
Mar 2014 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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240
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The “Literacy: Made for All” series is a classroom-ready, teacher-friendly resource for English and Writing teachers of Grades 9 through 12. Organized buffet style, it is designed to complement an existing English curriculum by providing a tested repertoire of strategies for teaching both writing skills and literary analysis techniques. STORY CRAFTING focuses on the creation, editing, polishing and sharing of short stories and longer prose fiction.
Benefits and Features:
tested and proven effective at all learning levels, from Remedial to Pre-APprovides complete lesson plans including reproducible materials can be implemented as is or modified to suit individual teaching styles and/or students' needseach skill, assignment or project begins by 'teaching the teacher', giving an inexperienced teacher the knowledge to provide effective instruction first time out and the confidence to modify and experiment thereaftercomprised of reading, writing, literary criticism and language-study componentsmoves students from writing effectively to reading analytically (approaching text from the authoring point of view), a proven, highly successful methodologycan turn any English course into a Literacy courseextremely versatile and cost-effectivecan deepen an existing English course or complete the framework for a new one
STORY CRAFTING focuses on the creation, production and sharing of a variety of nonfiction writing projects. The textcan be implemented in the classroom alone or in tandem with the two other titles in the Literacy: Made for All Series —WORDSMITHING and ENJOYING LITERATURE.
Also of interest for classroom teachers is the Let Them Write Series
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Writing and Literary Analysis Skills in Grades 4 to 8
PLOT BUILDING: Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Writing and Literary Analysis Skills in Grades 4 to 8
SETTING AND DESCRIPTION: Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Writing and Literary Analysis Skills in Grades 4 to 8
Benefits and Features:
tested and proven effective at all learning levels, from Remedial to Pre-APprovides complete lesson plans including reproducible materials can be implemented as is or modified to suit individual teaching styles and/or students' needseach skill, assignment or project begins by 'teaching the teacher', giving an inexperienced teacher the knowledge to provide effective instruction first time out and the confidence to modify and experiment thereaftercomprised of reading, writing, literary criticism and language-study componentsmoves students from writing effectively to reading analytically (approaching text from the authoring point of view), a proven, highly successful methodologycan turn any English course into a Literacy courseextremely versatile and cost-effectivecan deepen an existing English course or complete the framework for a new one
STORY CRAFTING focuses on the creation, production and sharing of a variety of nonfiction writing projects. The textcan be implemented in the classroom alone or in tandem with the two other titles in the Literacy: Made for All Series —WORDSMITHING and ENJOYING LITERATURE.
Also of interest for classroom teachers is the Let Them Write Series
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Writing and Literary Analysis Skills in Grades 4 to 8
PLOT BUILDING: Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Writing and Literary Analysis Skills in Grades 4 to 8
SETTING AND DESCRIPTION: Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Writing and Literary Analysis Skills in Grades 4 to 8
About the author
Arlene Marks began both writing and teaching at an early age: she loved playing school with younger neighborhood children on weekday afternoons, passing on what she had learned in school that day. Still passionate about education, she is now a multi-published author, editor, and teacher of English, literacy and writing with more than twenty years of experience in the high school classroom. Check out her website: www.thewritersnest.ca.
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