Better Writing: 7 Ways to Improve
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Each of the resources in this 92-page bundle calls attention to everyday issues that affect student writing. There are various elements for you to have ready-made materials for your writing lessons and your ongoing standards for writing excellence:7 Ways to Improve Your Writing - Productive habits,Price $22.00Original Price $28.50Save $6.50
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These are general tips that can be referred to all year. They feature HABITS that can really make a difference in your students' writing.
Gently asking "Did you read it aloud?" rather than saying "You need to read it aloud," is key. If the teacher says "Do this", it can create helplessness and even resentment in the student.
The tips are:
Tip #1: Read it aloud. Reading aloud is MAGIC!
Tip #2: Check your spelling. Every word!
Tip #3: Check your paragraphing. Your reader will thank you!
Tip #4: Add detail in support of your ideas, descriptions, or facts.
Tip #5: Mix up longer and shorter sentences.
Tip #6: Vary sentence beginnings (Included are 4 suggestions for how to)
Tip #7: Improve word choice (No "baby words"!)
This resource includes:
- Colorful set of slides in pdf format for projection, Google slides, or printing for classroom display.
- Additional set of posters with a black and white design.
- Colorful bookmarks (3 to a page) If I could not print in color, I often would have the students highlight important words.
- Three word lists to replace "look", "said", and "walk"
- Paragraphing tips to print 6 x 9 or 8.5 x 11.
- An 8.5 x 11 sheet in color, and some additional detail, for a writing center.
You might use these tips as a foundation for individual lessons, too, focusing on a particular skill such as word choice. You could display just one of the tips on your screen, and have all students work on that particular skill, or group students according to the skill they are working on. This is a good way to individualize writing instruction.
Another way to use: After a lesson and practice using just one of the tips, especially #s 5, 6, and 7, post the tip and student examples on your bulletin board. ("Here's how we varied our sentence beginnings", for example. Have students highlight the beginnings or the words they chose!)
I hope these posters and other materials will brighten up your classroom, and get your students thinking about how they CAN become more independent in revising their writing!
