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ReadytoUse Writing Proficiency Lessons and Activities: 8th Grade Level,New
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This volume of ReadytoUse Writing Proficiency Lessons & Activities gives classroom teachers and language arts specialists a powerful and effective tool for addressing curriculum standards and competencies at the eighthgrade level and preparing their students for comprehensive assessment testing.Writing Proficiency Lessons & Activities books are also available from JosseyBass at the fourthgrade level and the tenthgrade level.Included are a variety of easytouse, reproducible activity sheets that provide application and review the basic language skills as well as extensive practice in producing the types of writing called for in standardized tests.For easy use, the 240plus student activity sheets are printed in a big 81/2' x 11' format that lays flat for photocopying. The activities are organized into nine sections. Here is just a sample of the topics covered in Sections 15: CHOOSING THE RIGHT WORD: words often confused, prefixes, suffixes, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, adverbs vs. adjectives, sensory words, similes, metaphors, and double negatives MAKING MECHANICS AND USAGE WORK FOR YOU: apostrophes, hyphens, end marks, commas, semicolons, colons, quotation marks, titles, and misplaced modifiers. WRITING SENTENCES: subjects and predicates, subjectverb agreement, simple and compound sentences, complex sentences, sentence fragments, runon sentences, and sentence types WRITING PARAGRAPHS: writing a topic sentence, writing a concluding sentence, developing the topic, using tense consistently, using transitional words, and staying on the topicESSAYWRITING TECHNIQUES: brainstorming, clustering, outlining, writing an introductory paragraph with a question or a surprising statement, developing the topic using examples, avoiding irrelevant details, writing a concluding paragraph, proofreading, and writing a fiveparagraph essay.
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