Homeschool Bookstore: 8th Grade Writing Skills
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Writing Strands: Level 4, Grade 8This group of assignments is designed to give homeschooled fourth-level students a grounding in the very complicated process of giving others their thoughts in written form. This level is designed for students who, in public school, would be considered ready for eighth grade. The writing exercises in this level are in four categories: basic, creation, organization, and descriptive. The assignments in each of these areas will guide you in the development of the skills you will need to be able to feel good about your ability to write. Rather than increase the work for the instructor, this writing process should make it easier for both the instructor and the students to meet the increasing demands for more student writing. Paperback, 99 pages.
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Evaluating WritingEvaluating Writing is a teacher's guide to evaluating Writing Strands assignments. The manual address some conditions that make hard the teaching of writing: fear and insecurity, motivation, concentration, thinking through ideas, talking about mechanical problems, following directions, not wanting to rewrite, "I don't want to write," proofreading. Also includes common writing problems and how to correct them, using Writing Strands skills in other subjects, appendix, rules for drafting, spelling rules, scope and sequence for Writing Strands and index. Softcover, 96 pages. |
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99 Ways to Get Kids to Love Writing: And 10 Easy Tips for Teaching Them GrammarPractical tips and expert advice from an English teacher with more than 25 years of experience! For preschool through high school (and beyond), Leonhardt's invaluable nuggets show you how to teach your children the fundamentals of writing---and make it fun for them. Watch your kids develop into fluent, independent writers! 123 pages, softcover from Random House. |
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Daily Warm-Ups: Daily Edits Level 1Put your students on the path to improved writing and proofreading.
These 180 quick exercises provide regular practice in correcting
sentences and paragraphs by ferreting out misspelled words, grammatical
errors, incorrect capitalization or punctuation, changes in tense,
hyperbole, and more; while reinforcing skills in usage, mechanics,
spelling, and grammar. Includes answer key. Grades 5 to 8. 206
reproducible pages, softcover. |
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Writing, Level 1, Daily Warm-Ups
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Daily Warm-Ups: Journal WritingThe Daily Warm-Ups series is a wonderful way to turn extra classroom minutes into valuable learning time. The 180 quick activities - one for each day of the school year - review, practice, and teach word analogies. These daily activities may be used at the very beginning of class to get students into learning mode, near the end of class to make good educational use of that transitional time, in the middle of class to shift gears between lessons - or whenever else you have minutes that now go unused. In addition to providing students with structure and focus, they are a natural path to other classroom activities involving critical thinking and writing. Daily Warm-Ups are easy-to-use reproducibles - simply photocopy the day's activity and distribute it. Or make a transparency of the activity and project it on the board. You may want to use the activities as a take home assignment to jump start creative writing. Included in this front matter are suggestions for ways students might respond to the quotations. Or you may use your own writing prompts. These writing activities are a wonderful way to get students to explore their own ideas and articulate their thoughts. However you chose to use them, Daily Warm-Ups are a convenient and useful supplement to your regular lesson plans. Make every minute of your class time count! |
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Daily Warm-Ups: PoetryPoetry is to language what the rose is to flora! Excerpts from Shakespeare, Keats, Browning, Whitman, Longfellow, and others introduce your students to the sublime wonders of verse. And when they're not analyzing and appreciating the works of the masters, your students will be learning about poetic devices such as onomatopoeia and personification, and writing their own odes. Help their creativity flower! 180 reproducible pages, softcover. |
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Getting Kids to Write! A Natural Approach to Creative Writing, Grades 4-8Want to "hook" your 8- to 14-year-olds on writing? Engage their imagination and they'll pick up the pen---and the habit! Packed with stimulating starter topics, this teacher-designed resource offers sure-fire strategies for composing fiction and nonfiction; writing samples; and over 30 activities that capitalize on kids' natural desire to express themselves. 112 reproducible pages, softcover from Teaching & Learning Company. |
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Writing & Grammar Grade 8--Home School Kit (3rd Edition)Learn the elements of the English language needed for success! Correct
grammar and a fluent writing style are fast becoming necessary
requirements in our fast-paced world for academics and for life.
Writing & Grammar 8 reviews the eight parts of speech,five basic
sentence patterns, while emphasizing correct grammatical usage.
Students will complete writing projects such as scripts, fables, essays
and more.
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Jumpstarters for Writing (4-8+)Wake up the writer in every student with these short, daily warmups that cover the building blocks of great nonfiction, fiction, and poetry writing. Each reproducible activity page contains 5 lessons or warmups--one for each school day of the week! Answer keys and suggestions for use are included. 48 pages. |
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Four Square Writing in the Content Areas, Grades 5-9When students complain about having nothing to write about, what they really need is the ability to organize and clarify their thoughts around a topic and develop that content into sentences and paragraphs. All the help your students need about writing and learning across the curriculum is in this book.
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100 Writing Starters for Middle SchoolInspire creative writing in middle school students with these high-interest story starters! This revised edition includes new writing starters on topics that are of special interest to today's middle schooler. 100 Writing Starters for Middle School still includes the features that have made this a Walch best-seller! Engages students with relevant topics and situations Provides writing prompts that spark creativity and foster critical-thinking skills Encourages full developed, thoughtful writing from first word to last Promotes writing success with writing assignments of a manageable length Grades 6-8 2nd Edition Reproducible teacher book |
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Writing for the Real WorldStudents understand assignments better when they learn through real-life experiences. These realistic writing prompts involve personal (autobiographies, journals); school (reports, note-taking, test essays); and work (memos, proposals, newsletters) scenarios to give youngsters hands-on practice with communication skills that will prepare them for the future. Each chapter includes special enrichment activities for those with access to computer and Internet technologies. Grades 5 to 8. 154 reproducible pages, softcover from Instructional Fair. |
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Spectrum Writing, 2007 Edition, Grade 8Spectrum Writing helps young learners improve and strengthentheir writing skills as they learn the "main idea", cause and effect and comparison. This workbook features a variety of activities to build skills and comprehension while preparing young learners for standardized tests, including practice skills and topics that encourage creativity and build confidence. This Grade 8 book covers figurative language, dialogue, order of importance, visual aids and the writing process. A writer's handbook and answer key are included. 144 pages, softcover. 2007 Edition. |
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Research & Writing: Activities That Explore Family History"Write what you know!" Your students may be surprised to discover a wealth of dramatic stories within your own family. Through the activities in this book, they'll learn to use resources including family records, the Internet, census records, diaries, cemeteries, photographs, and more to unearth---and write about---interesting family events. Grades 5 to 9. 144 reproducible pages, softcover from Teaching & Learning Company. |
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Easy Writing 2007Use Easy Writing for lower/upper elementary or for junior high/high school basic skills; this two-leveled book contains level 1 in the beginner and level 2 at the back for optimal usefulness. Designed to help students write specific sentence structures, the lessons will begin to develop written expression skills such as items in a series, subordinate and participial clauses, relative clauses, semicolon construction and more. Two lessons are generally given for each discreet skill with repetition of instruction to allow for lessons to be spaced farther apart without students forgetting what they've learned. Answers are included; 474 pages, softcover. |
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