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Razzle dazzle writing : achieving success through 50 target skills
Title:
Razzle dazzle writing : achieving success through 50 target skills
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
Shows how to teach narrative and informational writing through mastery of 50 key, target writing skills.
Year Published:
2001
Physical Description:
xi, 173 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Teaching razzle dazzle writing -- Teaching razzle dazzle mini-lessons -- Teaching tips -- Teaching target skills -- Keeping writing records -- Writing Ttarget skills checklist -- Skipping lines -- Graybar paper -- Razzle dazzle feedback -- Writing target skills -- Painting a word picture -- Word picture poems -- show, don't tell -- Practicing show, don't tell -- Strong verbs -- Strong verb vs. weak verb play -- Strong verb poem -- Young author's list of strong verbs -- Juicy color words -- Super-star colors -- Similes -- Simile cityplay -- Onomatopoeia -- Onomatopoeia poem -- Putting onomatopoeia to use -- Creating onomatopoeia -- Specific emotion and sensory words -- Young author's list of specific emotion words -- Young author's list of sensory words -- Metaphors -- MeTA-4 news play -- Young author's metaphor collection -- Transitional words and phrases -- Young author's list of transitions -- Fictional narratives -- Fictional narratives example -- Story glove -- Narratives grabbers -- Problem or challenge -- Personal narratives -- Personal narrative organizer -- Personal narrative example -- Expository writing -- Four catagories of expository writing -- List of details -- Supporting with reasons and details -- List of details -- Supporting with reasons and details -- Writing a basic explository paragraph -- Revising -- Who, what, when, where, why, & how -- Staying focused -- Editing -- Young author's list of common spelling words -- Writing assessment.
ISBN:
9780929895482
Publisher:
Gainesville, Fla : Maupin House, c2001.