Great Source Write Source
by Kemper, Dave; Sebranek, Patrick; Meyer, VerneEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-01-01
Publisher(s): Great Source Education Group Inc
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Summary
This powerful classroom toolkit provides a variety of additional resources to help you make the most of the Write Source program: - SkillsBook Practice for essential mechanics, usage, and grammar skills (SkillsBook Teacher's Edition also included.)- Assessment Book Copymasters for a pretest, interim tests, and posttests to help prepare students for stare assessments- Overhead Transparencies Graphic organizers, assessment rubrics, and benchmark papers for whole-class instruction- Interactive Writing Skills CD-ROM Animated grammar lessons, engaging, interactive activities, and printable and e-mailable reports- Daily Language Workouts Quick 5-to-10 minute activities in mechanics, usage, grammar, and writing.
Table of Contents
| The Writing Process | |
| Why Write? | p. 1 |
| Using the Writing Process | |
| Understanding the Writing Process | p. 5 |
| One Writer's Process | p. 11 |
| Peer Responding | p. 29 |
| Understanding the Traits of Writing | p. 33 |
| Using a Rubric | p. 45 |
| Publishing Your Writing | p. 57 |
| Creating a Portfolio | p. 65 |
| The Forms of Writing | |
| Descriptive Writing | |
| Writing a Descriptive Paragraph | p. 71 |
| Describing an Event | p. 75 |
| Writing Across the Curriculum | p. 83 |
| Narrative Writing | |
| Writing a Narrative Paragraph | p. 93 |
| Sharing an Experience | p. 97 |
| Writing a Biographical Narrative | p. 135 |
| Writing Across the Curriculum | p. 143 |
| Writing for Assessment | p. 152 |
| Expository Writing | |
| Writing an Expository Paragraph | p. 157 |
| Explaining a Process | p. 161 |
| Writing a Classification Essay | p. 199 |
| Writing Across the Curriculum | p. 205 |
| Writing for Assessment | p. 214 |
| Persuasive Writing | |
| Writing a Persuasive Paragraph | p. 219 |
| Promoting a Cause | p. 223 |
| Writing a Pet-Peeve Essay | p. 261 |
| Writing Across the Curriculum | p. 267 |
| Writing for Assessment | p. 278 |
| Response to Literature | |
| Writing a Response Paragraph | p. 283 |
| Writing a Book Review | p. 287 |
| Writing Fictionalized Journal Entries | p. 323 |
| Writing Across the Curriculum | p. 329 |
| Writing for Assessment | p. 336 |
| Creative Writing | |
| Writing Stories | p. 343 |
| Writing Poems | p. 353 |
| Research Writing | |
| Building Research Skills | p. 363 |
| Writing a Summary Paragraph | p. 377 |
| Writing a Research Report | p. 381 |
| Developing Multimedia Presentations | p. 411 |
| Speaking and Writing to Learn | |
| Speaking to Learn | |
| Listening and Speaking | p. 417 |
| Making Oral Presentations | p. 423 |
| Writing to Learn | |
| Keeping Journals and Learning Logs | p. 431 |
| Taking Notes | p. 441 |
| Completing Writing Assignments | p. 449 |
| Taking Classroom Tests | p. 459 |
| The Basic Elements of Writing | |
| Working With Words | |
| What can I do with nouns in my writing? | p. 470 |
| How can I produce better writing with pronouns? | p. 474 |
| How can I use more effective verbs? | p. 480 |
| How can I strengthen my writing with adjectives? | p. 486 |
| How can I use adverbs effectively? | p. 490 |
| What can I do with prepositions? | p. 494 |
| What can I do with conjunctions? | p. 496 |
| Building Effective Sentences | |
| Writing Complete Sentences | p. 500 |
| Fixing Sentence Problems | p. 506 |
| Improving Your Sentence Style | p. 511 |
| Constructing Strong Paragraphs | |
| The Parts of a Paragraph | p. 524 |
| Types of Paragraphs | p. 526 |
| Writing Effective Paragraphs | p. 530 |
| A Writer's Resource | |
| Selecting Ideas | |
| How can I find the best topics to write about? | p. 544 |
| What can I do to get started? | p. 546 |
| How can I collect details for my writing? | p. 548 |
| Improving Organization | |
| What can I do to organize my details better? | p. 550 |
| How can I write terrific topic sentences? | p. 552 |
| What other forms can I use for my writing? | p. 554 |
| Enriching Your Writing Voice | |
| How can I make my voice more colorful? | p. 556 |
| Strengthening Word Choice and Vocabulary | |
| What can I do to improve my writing style? | p. 558 |
| How can I expand my writing vocabulary? | p. 560 |
| What can I do to increase my vocabulary skills? | p. 562 |
| How can I build my vocabulary across the curriculum? | p. 564 |
| Improving Sentence Fluency | |
| What can I do to write more effective sentences? | p. 570 |
| How can I connect my sentences and paragraphs? | p. 572 |
| Enhancing Your Presentation | |
| What can I do to make my final copy look better? | p. 574 |
| How should I set up my practical writing? | p. 576 |
| Proofreader's Guide | |
| Marking Punctuation | p. 579 |
| End Punctuation | p. 579 |
| Commas | p. 582 |
| Semicolons | p. 594 |
| Colons | p. 596 |
| Quotation Marks | p. 598 |
| Italics and Underlining | p. 602 |
| Apostrophes | p. 604 |
| Hyphens | p. 608 |
| Dashes and Parentheses | p. 612 |
| Ellipses | p. 614 |
| Editing for Mechanics | p. 618 |
| Capitalization | p. 618 |
| Plurals | p. 630 |
| Abbreviations | p. 634 |
| Numbers | p. 638 |
| Improving Spelling | p. 642 |
| Rules for Spelling | p. 642 |
| Spelling List | p. 645 |
| Using the Right Word | p. 652 |
| Commonly Misused Pairs | p. 652 |
| Understanding Sentences | p. 690 |
| Parts of a Sentence | p. 690 |
| Using the Parts of Speech | p. 702 |
| Nouns | p. 702 |
| Pronouns | p. 706 |
| Verbs | p. 718 |
| Adjectives | p. 732 |
| Adverbs | p. 736 |
| Prepositions | p. 742 |
| Conjunctions | p. 744 |
| Interjections | p. 746 |
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