According to the NAEP Writing Report Card published in 1999, 23 percent of fourth graders, 27 percent of eighth graders, and 22 percent of high school seniors, write at the "proficient" level. The push is on in schools across the U.S. to improve students' writing skills. This week, Education World provides five lesson plans to support that effort.
Included: Lessons that involve students in interviewing, editing, building vocabulary, and more. Plus story starters for all grades.
This week, Education World offers five lesson plans for teaching writing skills
across the grades. Click any of the lesson headlines below to access a
complete teaching resource!
The activities below can be adapted for use at many grade levels; the
grade levels indicated in parentheses simply indicate those grades for
which each lesson is best suited.
Who Works at Our School?
Students interview members of the school staff, then create a bulletin
board introducing those staff members to the entire school community.
(Grades K-8)
Dead Word Wall Kills Overused
Words
Invite students to attend a funeral for the words they overuse in their
writing! Included: Two extension activities. (Grades K-12)
Ten Prompts for Student Writing
Motivate student writing with ten writing prompts. (Grades K-12)
Be the Editor!
Students
search for capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar errors
in a work sheet about famous black Americans. (Grades 3-8)
Story Starters for Beginning
Readers and Writers
Develop language skills in young readers/writers with 15 illustrated
story starters. (Grades Pre-K-2)
Find additional writing lessons in these Education World resources:
Journal Writing Every Day: Teachers
Say It Really Works
Study of Literary Characters 'Transforms'
Student Writing
Kids Can W.R.I.T.E. (Write, Revise,
Inform, Think, and Edit) -- Activities for Every Grade
Cause-and-Effect Writing Challenges
Students
I Was There When High School Research
Papers Came Alive
New Paperback Spotlights Students'
Best Writing
Student Essays Describe 'Perfect'
School
'Paper Swap' Strategy Helps Students
Learn
Teacher-Created Web Site Has 'Write'
Stuff!
Wax Museum Biographies Teach and Entertain
Vocabulary and Spelling: Do Your
Students Say 'Boring'?
'Every Day' Activities: Language
A
Quotation a Day: A Daily Classroom Thinking-and Writing Activity Book
Gary Hopkins
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Last updated 09/01/2006
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