How do you turn unmotivated students into eager and accomplished essay writers? In this powerful resource, a master teacher gives you the tools you need to make this happen. Using his own original comic strips to engage students, the author demonstrates a variety of ways to teach students how to organize an essay, create vivid details, make effective word choices, and revise and proofread effectively. He provides rubrics to set clear expectations as well as samples essays that serve as models for students. For use with Grades 5 &amp; Up.

Writing Extraordinary Essays: Every Middle Schooler Can!: Strategies, Lessons, and Rubrics - Plus Proven Tips for Succeeding on Tests

Education & Teaching

Finkle, David

Schools & Teaching

Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strategies)

It’s all about the pictures. When student writers rely primarily on vague statements, adjectives, and adverbs, their writing doesn’t score well on tests, and worse, sounds generic, voiceless, and dull. Creating vivid pictures is the key to good writing. In this book, a teacher/writer/cartoonist provides tools for helping students write about people, places, events, and even abstractions so that their readers can see, hear, smell, touch, and taste their topics. The author demonstrates ways to use figurative language, movie techniques, moment-by-moment narration, hypothetical scenarios, and dialogue to make any kind of writing come alive on the page. For use with Grades 5 &amp; Up.

Teaching Students to Make Writing Visual and Vivid: Lessons and Strategies for Helping Students Elaborate Using Imagery, Anecdotes, Dialogue, ... Techniques, Scenarios, and Sensory Detail

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

The life of Skip Gerber - a Manhattan real estate lawyer nudging middle age whose life and career have stalled almost without his noticing it - is turned upside down when a total stranger hands him an overcoat.

The Man with the Overcoat

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

nthposition press

Product Description “The face is familiar. Elihu knows he can easily place it. He doesn’t complete the thought because the young man speaks… ‘My name is Ethan Haas. My mother is Emily Haas. You’re my father.’”In his twenties Elihu Goulding was a famous, award-winning author of two novels. His work brought fame and fortune and yet he stopped writing. Instead, he traveled, renting various places in which to live. Each time he appreciated the solitude of his newest surroundings.Now Eli is entering his senior years and adapting to his latest rental, a New York City brownstone. One day, while taking a shower, Eli hears the front door buzzer ring, followed by assertive thumps from the door knocker. Once he is dressed and has decided the disturbance must be addressed, Eli opens the door to find a carbon copy of his younger self. Whether Eli likes it or not, an unknown chapter in his life is about to begin. About the Author David Finkle is a writer and journalist focusing on the arts and politics. Based in Manhattan, he is the author of People Tell Me Things, a story collection, The Man With the Overcoat, a novel, Humpty Trumpty Hit a Brick Wall, rhyming verses and illustrations about the Trump White House, and Great Dates With Some Late Greats, a story collection. He is currently a theater critic for New York Stage Review and has contributed to many publications, including The New York Times, The New York Post, The Village Voice, The Nation, The New Yorker, and New York. He is heard weekly on The Hour of Lateral Thinking, the podcast. Photo: Bruce Cratsley.

Keys to an Empty House

Literary

Plum Bay Publishing, LLC

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