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Description:
Grades K-2 - 25 Lessons To Improve Student Writing
This book is designed to help the busy K-2 educator provide short, but effective
writing lessons during the writing period. Ideal for teaching such concepts as:
- "Captain Capital!" Capitalization
- Cause and Effect
- Spacing Your Words
- Webbing Your Ideas
- Personification
- Adding Details
- "Getting Rid of 'The End'"
- Writing From Left to Right
- ...and more!
From the introduction of the book:
A mini-lesson is exactly what it says. It is meant to be a brief lesson giving
direction on a particular topic. A mini-lesson provides instruction that is
focused on one concept at a time. Mini-lessons are designed for immediate use
with your students prior to dismissing them for the remainder of the writing
time.
You will find 25 different mini-lessons in this booklet for the primary grades.
Perhaps you will use a few or all of them during the year. These lessons are
not meant to be presented in the order they appear in the booklet. They are
here as a reference for you to use as you oversee the needs of your students.
Watch your students writing closely. From there, you will be able to present
your own mini-lessons based on the needs of individual students in your room.
Numerous pieces
of children's' literature are presented in the mini-lessons. Do not feel tied
to these particular pieces if they are not available to you. Read the overall
concept being taught and then proceed to use what you have which will illustrate
the same points.
Remember to keep your mini-lessons to the point and to encourage your students
to apply this new knowledge in their writing. Be sure to walk around during
writing time and visit with your students. Let them know you are not looking
for perfection, but for improvement. As you continue to have students write
every day, YOU WILL SEE IMPROVEMENT! You will also see SUCCESS! Praise! Praise!
Praise!"
