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Sentence Skills: Ready-to-Use Writing Workshop Activities Kits. A Practical and Systematic Way To Build Basic Writing Skills and Teach the Entire Writing Process in Grades 4 through 8. Kit II.

Schifferle, Judith – 1985

This handbook is one of a set of six which provide a systematic means to help students in grades 4 through 8 learn the process of writing while building specific writing skills. The handbook focuses on sentence skills, and offers 30 reproducible lessons, in a variety of formats, to help students write simple, compound, and complex sentences. The…

Descriptors: Class Activities, Figurative Language, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools

Creative Writing Strategies and Activities that Inculcate Writing Skills Useful for Creative or Expository Writing.

Self, Judith S. – 1979

There are a number of reasons for using creative writing in elementary and secondary English curricula. When students practice using figurative and literal language, they improve their speaking abilities, and their language becomes more concrete, more explicit, more descriptive, and more interesting. Writing poems and short stories forces students…

Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Figurative Language