Lessons That Change Writers
Lessons with 3-Ring Binder
Nancie Atwell, Center for Teaching and Learning, Maine
This product is part of the series: The Lessons That Change Writers Series
ISBN 978-0-86709-506-7 / 0-86709-506-7 / 2002 / 1102pp / Paperback + 3-Ring Binder
Imprint: FirstHand
Availability: In Stock
Grade Level: 6-10
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In Lessons That Change Writers, Nancie has narrowed and deepened her conversation with teachers, to focus on the minilesson as a vehicle for helping students improve their writing. She shares over a hundred of these writing lessons which are described by her students as “the best of the best.” The lessons fall into the following four categories that provide the structure for this book: Learn more about firsthand
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Contents:
Section 1: Lessons About Topics Section 2: Lessons About Principles
Introduction
Mini-lesson Basics
Troubleshooting: Surefire Ways to Weaken Your Writing
- Hopefully
- Stories That End "The End"
Section 3: Lessons About Genres
- Ineffective and Effective Memoirs
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A Course of Study: Fiction
- What's Easy about Writing Bad Fiction?
- What's Hard about Writing Good Fiction?
- The Main Character Questionnaire
- Considerations in Creating a Character
- Short Story Structure
- Ways to Develop a Character
- The Power of I
- Beware the Participle
- Leads: Begin Inside
A Course of Study: How Free-Verse Poetry Works
- Conclusions: End Strongly
- Breaking Lines and Stanzas and Punctuating
- Cut to the Bone
- Use Repetition
- Two Things at Once
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Troubleshooting: Some Poetic Forms
- Sestinas and Tritinas
- Irregular Odes
- Haiku
- Thirteen-Ways Poems
- Memoir Poems
- Gifts of Writing
- Effective Book Reviews
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A Course of Study: Essays
- Effective Essays: Teasing Out Criteria
- How Do I Scratch the Itch?
- Write with Information
- Order the Information
- Leads for an Essay
- Experiment with Essay Conclusions
- Ted L. Nancy Letters and Other Genres for Humorists
- Test Writing as a Genre
Section 4: Lessons About Conventions
- The Individual Proofreading List
- Busines Letter Format and Addressing an Envelope
- A Brief History of the English Language
Troubleshooting: Spelling Essentials
- Weekly Word Studies
- Personal Survival Words
- Proofreading for Spelling
- The Truth about I before E
- Some Foreign Words Used in English Texts
- Root Words and Prefixes
- Suffixes: To Double or Not?
- Other Suffix Rules That Mostly Work
- A Brief History of Some Common Punctuation Marks
- Essential Punctuation Information
Troubleshooting: Convention Confusions
- How to Correct Coma Splices
- How to Punctuate Dialogue
- Homonyms
- Four Capitlization Confusions
- Writing Numbers
- Indicating Titles
- Me or I?
Appendixes
- Student Memoirs
- Student Short Fiction
- Student Essays
- Student Book Reviews
- Resources for Writing Mini-lessons
- From the binder: Classroom Posters of essential Quotations for Aspiring Writers (PDF, 410 KB)
- From the book: A Course of Study: Fiction (PDF, 454 KB)
- Lesson 30: From the binder: Main Character Questionnaire (PDF, 403 KB)
- Lesson 30: From the book: The Main Character Questionnaire (PDF, 661 KB)
- Lesson 6: From the binder: Twenty Actions That Could Become Poems (PDF, 415 KB)
- Lesson 6: From the book: Twenty Actions (PDF, 533 KB)
- Lesson 70: From the binder: Correcting Comma Splices (PDF, 400 KB)
- Lesson 70: From the book: Troubleshooting Convention Confusions (PDF, 597 KB)
- Review Nancie's yearlong plan. (PDF, 41 KB)
- Take a minute to "walk-through" one of Nancie's lessons. (Macromedia Flash Player 6 ® needed)
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