Jane Bell Kiester transforms the sentence-a-day approach to teaching grammar, usage, and mechanics into an intriguing and easy skill-builder. Teachers of students in grades 3-12 save valuable planning time with these classroom-proven soap opera plots ready for the blackboard or overhead. One story each for elementary, middle, and high school, easily adapted to your own classroom. Includes machine-readable tests, keys, plot outlines, and spin-off activities.

Caught'ya!: Grammar With a Giggle

Reference

Jane Bell Kiester

Words, Language & Grammar

Maupin House Publishing

"The Same Classic You Love – Now Expanded and Updated for 2006 Test Requirements! NEW Third Edition In just four easy steps, Jane Bell Kiester gives you all the tools you need to teach your students how to respond to any fiction or non-fiction prompt with superior and creative writing that incorporates solid writing-craft principles. The expanded Third Edition allows you to: •simplify the planning process for writing with several graphic organizers; •help students use and retain vivid vocabulary with entertaining, classroom-proven activities; •encourage and explicitly teach strategies that foster well-organized and elaborated writing that reveals the writer's voice; •teach students how to recognize genre—a difficult skill for many students to master on assessments—with twenty passages from familiar and beloved children's fiction and non-fiction literature; •provide students with practice in all genres with more than 200 practice prompts, plus the newest test addition—quote analysis; •assess writing quickly and confidently using the ninety reproducible, student-written responses to descriptive, expository, narrative, and persuasive writing prompts that include rubrics and teacher notes; and •conform to your state's scoring system using either holistic or domain scoring (explanations provided with the student samples)."

Blowing Away the State Writing Assessment Test: Four Steps to Better Scores for Teachers of All Levels

Education & Teaching

Kiester, Jane Bell

Schools & Teaching

Help your students develop an aural sense of good expository writing. Read a short essay to your class, then teach the content of writing with the help of teaching notes and an expository primer. Includes twenty-one well-written writing samples for different grade levels. Included are newspaper and magazine articles, letters to the editor, poems, essays, and process descriptions. A wonderful enhancement to your writing process workshop. By the author of Building a Writing Community and Teaching the Youngest Writers.

Listen to This: Developing an Ear for Expository (Maupin House)

Freeman, Marcia S.

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)

Melissa Forney

Prepare your high school students for AP, IB, and other standardized tests that demand an understanding of the subtle elements that comprise an author's unique voice. Each of the 100 sharply focused, historically and culturally diverse passages from world literature targets a specific component of voice, presenting the elements in short, manageable exercises that function well as class openers. Includes teacher notes and discussion suggestions.

Voice Lessons: Classroom Activities to Teach Diction, Detail, Imagery, Syntax, and Tone (Maupin House)

Dean, Nancy

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Mastery in informational and expository writing is central to the success of intermediate and middle-school students. In Crafting Expository Papers, Susan Koehler explicitly explains five instructional steps that develop expository skills, from developing details and creating organization through writing effective expository paragraphs and papers, then revising and editing for publication. She includes lessons with specific Target Skills® to support your students’ progress, and suggests timelines that will help you plan your curriculum. Students proficient in the genre of expository writing are empowered to craft well-organized written responses on subject-area assessments and standardized tests. They are able to write well-supported reports and term papers and will be prepared to handle the majority of writing that the majority of people will do in their lives. But teaching your students how to compose expository papers also has a larger impact on their education―becoming a proficient writer is often the first step in becoming a proficient reader. Students who learn the nuances of crafting expository writing will recognize and comprehend that craft while reading and responding to informational texts. Throughout, Koehler’s comprehensive approach and clear instructions make this book a unique and valuable resource for any teacher of developing writers.

Crafting Expository Papers (Maupin House)

Susan Koehler

Ever wanted to put together a really fabulous thematic unit but didn't know where to begin? Start here with A Bookbag of the Bag Ladies' Best and add hands-on pizzazz to your thematic units! Encourage interactive learning and motivate your K-5 classes with projects that use everyday items, like cereal boxes, newspapers, and CD cases. A Bookbag of the Bag Ladies' Best gives you step-by-step directions, drawings, blackline masters, and photographs for forty-eight classroom projects all you need to build thematic units geared toward your own curriculum. Best of all, you can be sure the projects work; the Bag Ladies have tested each and every one in their own elementary classrooms. So dive in! Become an honorary Bag Lady! Learn Bag Lady techniques, and you'll understand why students say that Bag Lady classrooms are fun places to learn. Named Product of the Week in Teaching K-8, February 2001

Bookbag of the Bag Ladies Best (Maupin House)

Karen Simmons

Cindy Guinn

For K-3 teachers Seven easy-to-maintain centers help you work smarter, not harder, as you connect standards-based reading and writing instruction with student application of skills and strategies. Your literacy centers will become focused places of learning, keeping you free to teach small groups and minimize student interruption―and you control how to fit the centers into your day. Primary Literacy Centers: Supports the balanced literacy approach; Features 36 language arts mini-lessons with easy-to-use center connections; Correlates to NCTE/IRA National Language Arts Standards; Incorporates both fiction and nonfiction text; Gives students time to practice and apply literacy-block skills and strategies that you teach and model &amp;&amp;/UL&amp;&amp;Here's everything you need to know to set up and manage centers in a balanced literacy framework for:Reading, Word Work, Read the Room, Listening, Research, Literature Response, Writing, and Poetry. Make literacy centers a vital part of your classroom!

Primary Literacy Centers: Making Reading and Writing Stick! (Maupin House)

Nations, Susan

Alonso, Mellissa

For K-5 Teachers! 
This innovative resource presents three increasingly complex levels of mini-lessons for each of 20 carefully selected non-fiction titles. The reading/writing connection allows for demonstration that enhances your K-5 curriculum. The books serve as models for illustrating and mastering the six basic expository skills needed for lifelong communication and for state assessments: Description, Explanation, Leads and Endings, Cause and Effect, Comparing and Contrasting and Fact and Opinion. All mini-lessons provide practice in the levels of knowledge required for ongoing, as well as, deadline writing. 
Literature Models To Teach Expository Writing * Takes you step-by-step through a writing workshop session * Provides a separate kindergarten, primary, and intermediate lesson for each modeled book * Includes charts and graphs * Adapts to the specific target-skill needs of your class * Allows you to teach writing across the curriculum * Lessons provide a framework for use with other non-fiction text

Literature Models to Teach Expository Writing

Susan Anderson-McElveen

Connie Campbell Dierking

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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