How to Use This Book
You, as the teacher will make the best decision as to how to use this book with your students. You may elect to use the lessons in the order in which they are presented, or you may pull out lessons that best suit your students’ needs. Lessons can be used as a springboard for your formal instruction, or they can be used as mini lessons, or reviews. Each of these 180 lessons can be seen as a stand alone “daily dose of writing”.
The table of contents lists the first page that you will find a particular lesson. Some lessons, such as writing descriptive sentences, spiral throughout the book. Presenting the lessons in the order they are written will allow the student to revisit many of the same skills throughout the year.
Suggested Uses:
1. Put a lesson under a document camera, or on an overhead projector. Use each lesson as an oral activity with your students to introduce concepts, review, or as a check for their understanding. ESL students would greatly benefit from this type of presentation.
2. Give students a hard copy to fill out. This could be an entry task for students to work on when they arrive at school, after recess, or at the beginning of the class period. As the teacher, you may want to model possible answers on the overhead or document camera.
3. Occasionally use a lesson as a review, or to check for understanding. Reviews are available for many skills throughout the book.
4. Use as daily homework. Students can turn them in, or they can be corrected as a group.
5. Students may work together on an assignment. One possible follow-up would be to have the students volunteer to put their work under the document camera and explain their answers to their classmates. This gives the opportunity for peer teaching and reinforcement for their own understanding.
Parts of Speech Laugh-n-Learn
Drag and Drop the correct words into the blanks to make a fun and silly sentence!
What this book does NOT teach
Due to the availablity of books teaching rules about capitalization and punctuation, we have purposefully not stressed many of these skills in A Daily Dose of Writing. Punctuation and capitalization are addressed in the lessons that teach students about writing dialogue, possessive pronouns, and proper nouns.
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