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Write Source: A Book for Writing, Thinking, and Learning
by Dave Kemper Patrick Sebranek Verne Meyer Chris KrenzkeThis powerful classroom toolkit provides a variety of additional resources to help you make the most of the Write Source program: - SkillsBook Practice for essential mechanics, usage, and grammar skills (SkillsBook Teacher's Edition also included. )- Assessment Book Copymasters for a pretest, interim tests, and posttests to help prepare students for stare assessments- Overhead Transparencies Graphic organizers, assessment rubrics, and benchmark papers for whole-class instruction- Interactive Writing Skills CD-ROM Animated grammar lessons, engaging, interactive activities, and printable and e-mailable reports- Daily Language Workouts Quick 5-to-10 minute activities in mechanics, usage, grammar, and writing.
Write the SAT Essay Right!: Ten Secrets To Add 100 Points To Your Score (Maupin House Ser.)
by Laura WilsonWrite the SAT Essay Right! is not your average-ho-hum-SAT-prep book, full of fluff and boring, useless stuff. Instead, Write the SAT Essay Right! gives college-bound students the down-low skinny on the ten best-kept secrets to raise SAT scores. In an easy step-by-step way, students learn proven secrets, then practice their newfound skills. Sample tests to study and evaluate, key strategies, and lots of score-raising tips make this a must-have resource for conquering the SAT essay. The teacher/trade edition of Write the SAT Essay Right! contains write-in- the-book worksheets, making it a perfect choice for students who need effective and convenient practice.ReviewWrite the SAT Essay Right! is required reading for any student gearing up for the SAT. Test-prep whiz Laura Wilson shares great advice and 10 secrets to help a teen build the skills and confidence necessary to crank out an essay that earns major points. She even provides a minute-by-minute timeline explaining how to use the allotted 25 minutes most effectively on the Big Day. Nobody is better at this than Laura. --Family Circle magazineLaura Wilson s ten proven secrets in Write the SAT Essay Right! clearly map out the route to SAT success, one secret at a time. Easy to read and full of solid writing tips, plus sample tests to practice grading, this book cuts through the fluff to give you what you need to know for a higher SAT writing score. --William Holiber, President, U.S. News and World ReportLaura Wilson s ten proven secrets in Write the SAT Essay Right! clearly map out the route to SAT success, one secret at a time. Easy to read and full of solid writing tips, plus sample tests to practice grading, this book cuts through the fluff to give you what you need to know for a higher SAT writing score. --William Holiber, President, U.S. News and World Report About the AuthorLaura Wilson, M.A., is the founder and CEO of the nationally recognized online test-preparation company, WilsonDailyPrep, and of WilsonPrep, a premier tutoring agency in Chappaqua, New York. In addition to more than twenty years of teaching English and tutoring high-school students for the SAT and ACT, she regularly consults closely with other English teachers, supervising and mentoring them in the classroom. She often consults with school districts, using her original curriculum guides to infuse grammar, reading, and writing skills into the study of high-school literary classics. In 2010, she founded Graph It Forward Today, an organization that donates graphing calculators to students and schools in need. In addition to Write the SAT Essay Right, her first Maupin House book, she is the author of The Wilson Daily Prep Verbal Workbook, The Wilson Daily Prep Math Workbook, andEnglish in English. She lives in Chappaqua, New York, with her husband Mike and her sons, Mitchell and Max.
Write to Learn (8th edition)
by Donald M. MurraySpeaking writer-to-writer to beginning and more experienced writers, Murray (University of New Hampshire) guides students through every step of the writing process, emphasizing that writing is a journey of discovery. In this eighth edition, there is new emphasis on learning to harvest ideas and connections before sitting down to write. There are new chapters on reviving a dead draft, and on Internet research. Individual, partner, and group activities are included.
Write to the Point!: Principles of Essay Writing
by William P. MorganThis book is all about writing and contains advice and time-saving strategies for making one's writing clearer, more interesting, and easier to put together.
Writers Inc, A student Handbook for Writing and Learning
by Dave Kemper Patrick Sebranek Verne Meyer Chris KrenzkeNIMAC-sourced textbook
Writers Inc: A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning
by Dave Kemper Patrick Sebranek Verne MeyerYour Writers Inc handbook provides concise, easy-to-use guidelines, samples, and strategies to help you with all of your writing. Writers Inc will also help you with your other learning skills, including study-reading, test taking, note taking, and Internet searches.
Writers Inc: Student Handbook For College-and-Career Readiness
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt StaffWriters INC Student Handbook is thoughtfully designed with college-and-career readiness in mind, starting with all facets of writing—from constructing sentences and paragraphs to developing academic essays. Explanatory essays and essays of argumentation are included, as are responses to literature and many narrative forms. There are also special sections on writing across the curriculum, social media, updated MLA and APA guidelines, and test taking skills to help students’ master new performance-based assessments.
Writing & Grammar Grade 10 Student Text (Fourth Edition)
by Bob Jones UniversityThis updated fourth edition of BJU Press' Writing and Grammar, Grade 10 student text features full-color pages with historical examples and context from all eras. Charts, sample sentences, enrichment focusing on thinking skills and Bible letters, and ESL notes all provide additional insights and interest to the chapter's primary focus. Lessons feature an excerpt, grammar exercises, and writing activities. This grade 10 text covers parts of speech, sentences, phrases, clauses, agreement, verb use, pronoun reference, capitalization, punctuation, writing, library skills, study skills, and more.
Writing 1C: Unit-Lessons in Composition
by Don P. Brown Katherine M. Blickhahn Nancy L. Cossitt Vicki Cox Jeanne M. Fratessa Albert LavinThis book presents a fundamental approach to learning how to write in high school.
Writing About Literature (Brief Eleventh Edition)
by Edgar V. RobertsThe aim of the book is to help students to read and write about individual literary works and to promote the lifelong pleasurable reading and love of literature.
Writing Rhetorically: Fostering Responsive Thinkers and Communicators
by Jennifer FletcherWriting Rhetorically: Fostering Responsive Thinkers and Communicators, author Jennifer Fletcher aims to cultivate independent learners through rhetorical thinking. She provides teachers with strategies and frameworks for writing instruction that can be applied across multiple subjects and lesson plans. Students learn to discover their own questions, design their own inquiry process, develop their own positions and purposes, make their own choices about content and form, and contribute to conversations that matter to them. Inside this book, Fletcher helps remove some of the scaffolding and explains how to put in practice some methods which can successfully foster: Inquiry, Invention, and Rhetorical Thinking Writing for Transfer Paraphrasing, Summary, Synthesis, and Citation Skills Research Skills and Processes Evidence-Based Reasoning Rhetorical Decision Making' Rhetorical decision making helps students develop the skills, knowledge, and mindsets needed for transfer of learning: the ability to adapt and apply learning in new settings. The more choices students make as writers, the better prepared they are to analyze and respond to diverse rhetorical situations.' Writing Rhetorically' shows teachers what it looks like to dig into real texts with students and novice writers and how it develops them for lifelong learning.
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
by Roy Peter ClarkWriting Tools covers everything from the most basic tool to the more complex ones and provides more than 200 examples from literature and journalism to illustrate the concepts.
Writing Workshop, Level E
by Beverly Ann Chin Phyllis Goldenberg Frederick J. PanzerA publisher-supplied textbook
Writing a Research Paper: A Step-By-Step Approach
by Phyllis Goldenberg Linda Anderson Rose DepotoA publisher-supplied textbook
Writing and Grammar: Communication in Action Handbook (Platinum)
by Prentice HallWriting And Grammar Handbook: Part 1 Writing Part 2 Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Part 3 Academic and Workplace Skills
Writing and Reading Connections: Bridging Research and Practice
by Steve Graham Zoi A. PhilippakosWriting skills are essential for success in the 21st-century school and workplace, but most classrooms devote far more time to reading instruction, with writing often addressed in isolation or excluded. In this insightful professional development resource and text, leading researchers discuss why and how to integrate writing and reading instruction in grades K–12 and beyond. Contributors explore how to harness writing–reading connections to support learning in such areas as phonics and spelling, vocabulary, understanding genre and text structure, and self-regulated strategy development, as well as across content areas and disciplines. Special considerations in teaching emergent bilingual students and struggling literacy learners are described. User-friendly features include guiding questions, classroom examples, and action questions that help teachers translate the research and concepts into practice.
Writing in Color: Fourteen Writers on the Lessons We've Learned
by Cindy Pon Kat Zhang Karuna Riazi Julie C. Dao Yamile Saied Méndez Laura Pohl Darcie Little Badger Adiba Jaigirdar Axie Oh Chloe Gong Kosoko Jackson Gail D. Villanueva Julian Winters Joan HeRethink the way you approach writing in this &“honest, useful craft book that all fledgling writers need&” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) from fourteen diverse authors that demystifies craft and authorship based on their experiences as writers of color—perfect for fans of Fresh Ink and Our Stories, Our Voices.So, you&’re thinking of writing a book. Or, maybe you&’ve written one, and are wondering what to do with it. What does it take to publish a novel, or even a short story? If you&’re a writer of color, these questions might multiply; after all, there&’s a lot of writing advice out there, and it can be hard to know how much of it really applies to your own experiences. If any of this sounds like you, you&’re in the right place: this collection of essays, written exclusively by authors of color, is here to encourage and empower writers of all ages and backgrounds to find their voice as they put pen to page. Perhaps you&’re just getting started. Here you&’ll find a whole toolkit of advice from bestselling and award-winning authors for focusing on an idea, landing on a point of view, and learning which rules were meant to be broken. Or perhaps you have questions about everything beyond the first draft: what is it really like being a published author? These writers demystify the process, sharing personal stories as they forged their own path to publication, and specifically from their perspectives as author of color. Every writer has a different journey. Maybe yours has already started. Or maybe it begins right here. Contributors include: Julie C. Dao, Chloe Gong, Joan He, Kosoko Jackson, Adiba Jaigirdar, Darcie Little Badger, Yamile Saied Méndez, Axie Oh, Laura Pohl, Cindy Pon, Karuna Riazi, Gail D. Villanueva, Julian Winters, and Kat Zhang.
Writing to Be Read (Revised Third Edition)
by Ken MacrorieThis book intends to give a thorough writing course to students that will help them express themselves efficiently.
Writing with Power: Language Composition 21st Century Skills [Grade 10]
by Joyce SennNIMAC-sourced textbook
Writing, Reading, and Research (9th Edition)
by Richard Veit Christopher Gould Kathleen GouldThis text is a composition course that prepares students for the tasks they will face during their college and professional careers developing skills in writing, reading and analyzing information.
Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One
by Laura Ingalls WilderFrom helping others in times of need, to keeping and maintaining friendships, to having a positive attitude, Laura's words of wisdom in Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Wisdom and Virtues are applicable even in today's world. As she shares stories and experiences from her own life, she encourages readers to live lives of integrity and to realize their dreams.
Written On Our Hearts: The Old Testament Story Of God's Love (Third Edition)
by Newland Mary Reed NewlandThe Subcommittee on the Catechism, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has found this catechetical text, copyright 2009, to be in conformity with the Catechism of the Catholic Church. This in-depth course brings to life the books of the Old Testament, with a full-color student text that covers the most important stories and passages of the Old Testament and guides students as they read the Bible. The one-semester course can be taught to ninth graders but is ideal for tenth- and eleventh-grade students. With emphasis to the context and spiritual meaning of the Old Testament, this text includes an extensive discussion of the Ten Commandments, sidebars featuring prayers in the Old Testament, historical and biblical timelines, review questions, reflective activities, and a full-color design with maps, charts, photos, and artwork help make the Old Testament come alive for students. The third edition features updates to the text that reflect current Scripture scholarship and the cultural experience of today's teens, new illustrations and photos, and a new glossary of biblical terms.
Written in Blood (The Desert Legends Trilogy #1)
by John WilsonSet in the harsh desert world of the Arizona Territory and northern Mexico during the 1870s, Written in Blood follows young Jim Doolen as he attempts to find some trace of the father who abandoned his family ten years earlier. As he travels through a scorched landscape very different from the lush West Coast forests of his home, Jim crosses paths with an assortment of intriguing characters, including an Apache warrior, a cave-dwelling mystic, an old Mexican revolutionary and a mysterious cowboy. And with each encounter he learns something more of the strange world he has entered and adds one more link in a chain that leads back to his father-and back to a dark, violent past. As his story approaches its thrilling conclusion in a ruined Mexican hacienda, Jim comes to realize that his father's life was much more complex than he had imagined, and that, in discovering his past, he has opened the way to his future.
Wrong Kind of Girl (Sweet Valley High #10)
by Francine Pascal Kate WilliamJessica's at it again! Jessica Wakefield has sworn never to allow Annie Whitman onto the Sweet Valley High cheering squad. Annie may have the beauty, talent, and spirit to be a cheerleader, but she also has the worst reputation in school. She goes out with a different boy every night, and all the kids call her "Easy Annie" behind her back. Jessica's pulling every devilish trick to keep Annie from ruining the cheerleaders' image. Only Elizabeth, Jessica's twin, knows what Annie's really like. But can she change her sister's mind before Jessica shatters Annie's dreams?