{"product_id":"ready-to-use-writing-proficiency-lessons-activities-10th-grade-level-paperback","title":"Ready-To-Use Writing Proficiency Lessons \u0026 Activities: 10th Grade Level - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarol H. Behrman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn experienced teacher and author, Carol Behrman helps students develop the sound foundation they need to become proficient writers throughout their lives. Included are a variety of easy-to-use reproducible activity sheets to provide review and application of basic language skills as well as extensive practice in producing the types of writing called for in standardized tests. The steps of the writing process are emphasized throughout. Each set of activities is accompanied by detailed lesson plans and suggestions to the teacher for presenting and implementing the skills and concepts being addressed. Each section is followed by a practice test focusing on the concepts and skills covered in the section, plus answer keys and scoring guides with writing samples. These practical tests will help students prepare for the types of questions they will be asked on actual tests.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume of \u003ci\u003eReady-to-Use Writing Proficiency Lessons and Activities\u003c\/i\u003e gives classroom teachers and language arts specialists a powerful and effective tool for addressing curriculum standards and competencies at the tenth-grade level and preparing their students for comprehensive assessment testing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn experienced teacher and author, Carol Behrman helps students develop the sound foundation they need to become proficient writers throughout their lives. Included are a variety of easy-to-use reproducible activity sheets to provide review and application of basic language skills as well as extensive practice in producing the types of writing called for in standardized tests. The steps of the writing process are emphasized throughout. Each set of activities is accompanied by detailed lesson plans and suggestions to the teacher for presenting and implementing the skills and concepts being addressed. Each section is followed by a practice test focusing on the concepts and skills covered in the section, plus answer keys and scoring guides with writing samples. These practical tests will help students prepare for the types of questions they will be asked on actual tests.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSections 1-5 offer review and practice in basic writing skills.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHOOSING THE RIGHT WORD: \u003c\/b\u003e Covers words often confused, prefixes, suffixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms, similes and metaphors, sensory words, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMAKING MECHANICS AND USAGE WORK FOR YOU: \u003c\/b\u003e Reviews grammar and usage including punctuation marks, titles, misplaced modifiers, and prepositions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWRITING SENTENCES: \u003c\/b\u003e Includes lessons on subjects and predicates, subject\/verb agreement, simple and compound sentences, complex sentences, sentence fragments, run-on sentences, and sentence types.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWRITING PARAGRAPHS\u003c\/b\u003e Guides student writers through writing a topic sentence, writing a concluding sentence, developing a topic, using tense consistently, using transitional words, and staying on topic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eESSAY-WRITING TECHNIQUES\u003c\/b\u003e Includes activities in brainstorming, clustering, outlining, developing the topic, avoiding irrelevant details, writing a concluding paragraph, revising, proofreading, and writing a five-paragraph essay.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe activities in Sections 6-9 take the students through the steps in the writing process to develop from six to eight writing samples on various age-appropriate topics in each of the following genres required on state tests: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWRITING INFORMATIVE ESSAYS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWRITING PERSUASIVE ESSAYS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWRITING NARRATIVE ESSAYS AND STORIES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWRITING LETTERS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarol H. Behrman\u003c\/b\u003e taught writing to students in the Glen Ridge New Jersey school system for fifteen years. She has written thirty books--fiction and nonfiction--for children and young adults and conducts numerous writing process workshops for students, teachers, and aspiring writers. Ms Behrman has served as writer-in-residence at Chautauqua Institution and has been an adjunct lecturer at Seton Hall University and at New York University's Writing Center. \u003ci\u003eWriting Proficiency Lessons and Activities\u003c\/i\u003e grades four and eight by Behrman are also available from Jossey-Bass.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 319\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 10.9 x 8.24 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 29, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47451849752754,"sku":"9780787966003","price":39.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/5f7ceffb80f47e998db16960af7d78cd.webp?v=1778802248","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/ready-to-use-writing-proficiency-lessons-activities-10th-grade-level-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}