Donohue, Karen,

180 days to successful writers : lessons to prepare your students for standardized assessments and for life / One hundred and eighty days to successful writers One hundred eighty days to successful writers 180 days to successful writers : Lessons to prepare your students for standardised assessments and for life Karen Donohue and Nanda N. Reddy. - xi, 280 pages : illustrations, forms ; 28 cm

Includes index.

No-brainers and bosses : laying the foundation -- Pickle sandwiches and TCUPSS : beginning expository writing -- Rainbow words and awe-inspiring adjectives : enhancing expository -- It all started with a tier cake : directing narrative structure -- Ask for likely similes and vivacious verbs : enhancing narratives -- Dressing things up : independent writing -- The improvement process : diagnosing and fixing problems -- Timers and deadlines : preparing for a test -- Beyond tests and essays : applying expository writing knowledge -- Beyond tests and stories : applying narrative writing knowledge -- Writing outside the lines : advanced lessons -- Going schoolwide : ideas to create a spiraling curriculum. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

1412924480 9781412924481 1412924499 9781412924498

2005019385


English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching (Elementary)
English language--Composition and exercises--Ability testing.
Education, Elementary--Curricula

LB1576 / .D655 2006

372.623