The latest brain research about learning styles is the basis for this innovative resource by noted author and speaker Melissa Forney. The Writing Menu gives K-6 teachers a banquet of writing choices for students that stem from and enhance topics they are already studying. This resource helps you use writing to teach across the curriculum. Menu prompts on a wide variety of topics and in expository and narrative genres make teaching writing easy and fun for both you and your students. Grade-appropriate target skills provide a handy check-off to monitor students' progress―and ensure accountability with state writing standards.

The Writing Menu: Ensuring Success for Every Student (Maupin House)

Education & Teaching

Melissa Forney

Schools & Teaching

Maupin House Publishing

Teach 50 key writing workshop target skills with the 130 mini-lessons in Razzle Dazzle Writing. Designed to take average writers to a higher level of success on assessments, each self-contained mini-lesson helps teachers teach writer's workshop by illustrating an aspect of a writer's craft for narrative and expository writing. Reproducibles, ideas, and many activities. By the author of The Writing Menu, Primary Pizzazz Writing, Dynamite Writing Ideas, and Oonawassee Summer.

Razzle Dazzle Writing: Achieving Excellence Through 50 Target Skills

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Want to teach to the K-2 writing standards, get ideas galore, and have fun with your primary writing workshop, too? Of course. You want it all. And now you can have it! Primary Pizzazz Writing really helps you do it all!: Create a successful craft-centered writing workshop classroom; Directly address all of the nationally recognized primary writing standards with 30 Skill Units for every teaching setting―large and small groups, independent writing centers, and at-home writing; Engage the littlest writers and appeal to every learning style with make-and-takes, songs, poems, readers’ theatre, games, and recipes; Add an interactive, performance dimension to writing workshop with a high-energy audio CD with 13 songs and 5 readers’ theatre plays created and performed by Melissa Forney; and Link writing and reading with targeted literature selections and vocabulary for each skill unit. Melissa Forney also is the author of Dynamite Writing Ideas, Razzle Dazzle Writing, The Writing Menu, and Oonawassee Summer.

Primary Pizzazz Writing (Maupin House)

Grades 3-5 Suspense ...Laughter...Adventure...Summer Meet Addie and Tanner, Gram and Great-Uncle Henry-people you won't soon forget. And, explore the secret-filled river that flows past Winslow's Bait Shop. In addition to making a new best friend, young readers will feel as if they have traveled to Florida: How many bald eagles call Florida home?, How fast can a river otter swim?, What does a palmetto tree look like?, What does an alligator eat for lunch?

"Oonawassee Summer"

Buttery Moon Multimedia, Inc.

This is the book that all Florida 4th grade teachers and students have been waiting for. This resource has 70 superb writing lessons, 30+ examples of student writing, 100+ practice writing topics, narrative and expository clues, storyboards, and so much more. If your students take the FCAT Writes! test, then you should have this book. Florida Edition/4th grade. This resource can easily be adapted to any grade level and be used in any state.

Writing Superstars How to Score More Than Ever Before

The Astonishing Journey of Teddy Bodain: Teacher Edition

If you loved reading "The Astonishing Journey of Teddy Bodain", you'll have a ball with "Teddy Bodain's Adventure Quest", the companion book that makes learning fun. Teddy Bodain who bravely crossed the southern United States in 1892 by covered wagon, writes a new letter for every activity. Kids can test their knowledge of "all things Teddy" by working on each new daily challenge.

"Teddy Bodain's Adventure Quest"

Buttery Moon Mutimedia, Inc.

The Astonishing Journey of Teddy Bodain: Student Edition

BRAND NEW! Spend the summer at wonderful Camp Su Mundo with the kids on the Mountain Lion team, and learn to become an awesome writer. The 19 reader's theater plays are designed for maximum participation and unprecedented enthusiasm. The plays portray intermediate grade kids from multicultural backgrounds learning how to incorporate specific skills, newfound creativity, and joyous passion in their writing. Author, Melissa Forney, has created an imaginary environment where kids can live through the ten main characters and learn to strengthen their own writing at the same time. This is a book teachers will use year after year in the classroom.

Melissa Forney's Writing Camp, A Reader's Theater Adventure for Young Writers

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