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.

This book title, Ready-to-Use Writing Proficiency Lessons & Activities (8th Grade Level), ISBN: 9780787965860, by Carol H. Behrman, published by Wiley (May 1, 2003) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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