Ready-to-Use Writing Proficiency Lessons & Activities (8th Grade Level)

This volume of Ready-to-Use Writing Proficiency Lessons &Activities gives classroom teachers and language artsspecialists a powerful and effective tool for addressing curriculumstandards and competencies at the eighth-grade level and preparingtheir students for comprehensive assessment testing.

Writing Proficiency Lessons & Activities books arealso available from Jossey-Bass at the fourth-grade level and thetenth-grade level.

Included are a variety of easy-to-use, reproducible activitysheets that provide application and review the basic languageskills as well as extensive practice in producing the types ofwriting called for in standardized tests.

For easy use, the 240-plus student activity sheets are printedin a big 8-1/2" x 11" format that lays flat for photocopying. Theactivities are organized into nine sections. Here is just a sampleof the topics covered in Sections 1-5:

• CHOOSING THE RIGHT WORD: words often confused, prefixes,suffixes, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, adverbs vs. adjectives,sensory words, similes, metaphors, and double negatives
• MAKING MECHANICS AND USAGE WORK FOR YOU: apostrophes,hyphens, end marks, commas, semicolons, colons, quotation marks,titles, and misplaced modifiers.
• WRITING SENTENCES: subjects and predicates, subject-verbagreement, simple and compound sentences, complex sentences,sentence fragments, run-on sentences, and sentence types
• WRITING PARAGRAPHS: writing a topic sentence, writing aconcluding sentence, developing the topic, using tenseconsistently, using transitional words, and staying on thetopic
  
• ESSAY-WRITING TECHNIQUES: brainstorming, clustering,outlining, writing an introductory paragraph with a question or asurprising statement, developing the topic using examples, avoidingirrelevant details, writing a concluding paragraph, proofreading,and writing a five-paragraph essay.

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