Real-Life Writing Activities for Young Authors: Ready-to-Use Writing Process Activities for Grades 4-9

This read-to-use resource provides 40 complete model writing lessons that capture students' attention, build their writing skills, and teach them a writing process (motivation, brainstorming, composing, revising, and publishing) that will serve them throughout their lives. The lessons/activities are designed for young authors in grades 4 through 9 who are just learning the composing process, as well as for advanced writes who are ready to experiment with a variety of writing and speaking genres. They feature a wide range of practical writing tasks students can easily relate to their own lives. For easy use, all materials are printed in a big 8-1/4" x 11" spiral-bound format that folds flat for photocopying of the writing formats and evaluative checklists that accompany many of the lessons, and are arranges developmentally into five sections. Here's just a sample of what each section offers:DESCRIPTIVE COMPOSITIONS FOR YOUNG AUTHORS: "People/Fact Hunt" ..."Consumer Survey" ..."Captions" ..."Letter of Introduction to My Next Teacher" ..."Restaurant Review Checklist" ..."Horoscope" DIRECTIONAL COMPOSITIONS FOR YOUNG AUTHORS: "Advice to Next Years Class" ..." Treasure map Directions" ..."Friendship Recipe" ..."Cheer-Up Checklist" ..."Medical Guide" ..."Advice Column Solution Letter" PERSUASIVE COMPOSITIONS FOR YOUNG AUTHORS: "Apology/Apology Note" ..."Travel Brochure" ..."Movie/Video Review" ..."Sympathy Message" ..."Bill of Rights" ..."Letter of Complaint" ..."Eulogy" NARRATIVE COMPOSITIONS FOR YOUNG AUTHORS: "Good News/Bad News Tale" ..."Mystery/Whodunit" POEMS & SONGS FOR YOUNG AUTHORS: "Simple Chant" ..."Five-Line Poem" ..." Comparison Poem" ..."Auto-Bio Poem" ..."Modern Nursery Rhymes"All lessons provide step-by-step instructions, including alternative motivators, examples of what to say to elicit student' response and what to write on the chalkboard, and suggestions for responding to students' writing in a way that will encourage them. You'll also find the lessons are ideally flexible. You may follow the steps in each Real-Life Writing lessons just as described or add, omit, and/or change parts to fit your student' knowledge, skills, or interests and/or your curriculum needs.