Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day

The Writing Teacher''s Activity-a-Day offers teachers, homeschoolers, and parents 180 ready-to-use, reproducible activities that enhance writing skills in secondary students. Based on Ledbetter''s extensive experience consulting to language arts teachers and school districts across the country, the classroom-tested activities included in this book teach students key literary and writing terms like allegory, elaboration, irony, personification, propaganda, voice, and more--and provide them with engaging examples that serve as models for their own Quick Writes.

• Contains writing prompts and sample passages in student-friendly language that connects abstract literary concepts to students'' own lives
• Written by popular workshop presenter and veteran educator Mary Ellen Ledbetter
• Offers a user-friendly, value-packed resource for teaching writing skills

Designed for English language arts teachers in grades 6-12, tutors, parents, learning specialists, homeschoolers, and consultants.