{"product_id":"ready-to-use-portfolio-development-activities-unit-6-includes-90-sequential-activities-for-building-individual-student-portfolios-in-grades-6-throug-paperback","title":"Ready-To-Use Portfolio Development Activities: Unit 6, Includes 90 Sequential Activities for Building Individual Student Portfolios in Grades 6 Throug - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJack Umstatter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA practical series that provides over 540 stimulating, ready-to-use activity sheets to help teach and reinforce writing skills in middle\/junior high and senior high school students, grades 6-12. Each unit in the series focuses on a different area of writing skills and is complete and self-contained, including 90 reproducible activities in a variety of formats, a brief teacher's guide to effective use of the activities and full answer keys. The activities can be used in any order in any developmental or corrective writing program to meet the specific needs of individual students, small groups, or an entire class.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis resource is one of six units in the \u003cb\u003eWriting Skills Curriculum Library\u003c\/b\u003e, a practical series that provides over 540 stimulating, ready-to-use activity sheets to help you teach and reinforce writing skills in middle\/junior high and senior high school students, grades 6-12. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach unit in the series focuses on a different area of writing skills and is complete and self-contained, including 90 reproducible activites ina variety if formats, a brief teacher's guide to effective use of the activities, and full answer keys. The activities can be used in any order in any deveopmental or corrective writing program to meet the specific needs of individual students, small groups, or an entire class.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor quick selection, each unit includes a detailed table of contents listing the major skills\/topics covered in that unit followed by the activitites for teaching and reinforcing each skill. Here's just an overview of what you'll find each unit: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnit 1 READY-TO-USE WORD ACTIVITIES\u003c\/b\u003e provides 90 activity sheets to help students learn the importance of word selection and precision in the writing process. Topics covered include connotation and denotation, roots, prefixes abd suffixes, synonyms and antonyms, and expressions that students' awareness of making correct word choices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnit 2 READY-TO-USE SENTENCE ACTIVITIES\u003c\/b\u003e presents 90 activities that involve students in the essentials of sentence construction, subjects and predicates, complements, phrases, clauses, types of sentences, agreement, and mechanics as well as problems of wordiness, transition, ambiguity, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnit 3 READY-TO-USE PARAGRAPH WRITING ACTIVITIES\u003c\/b\u003e features 90 stimulating activities that lead students through the steps of writing clear, convincing paragraphs. Topics range from brainstorming techniques and topic sentences to using supporting ideas and introducing, organizing, and concluding the paragraph.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnit 4 READY-TO-USE PREWRITING \u0026amp; ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES\u003c\/b\u003e offers 90 reproducible activities that explore ways of gathering and using information intelligently. Activities cover a wide range of topics such as information sources, categorizin, topic and subtopic summaries, outlines, and term paoer ideas and formats.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnit 5 READY-TO-USE REVISION \u0026amp; PROOFREADING ACTIVITIES\u003c\/b\u003e presents 90 high-interest activities to guide students through the problem areas of writing including verb tense, word often confused, superfluity, issues of clarity, and proofreading techniques used by professional writers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnit 6 READY-TO-USE PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES\u003c\/b\u003e includes 90 activities that expose students to different types of writing such as literary analysis, stories and sketches, narratives, reviews, letters, journal entries, newspaper articles, character analysis, dialogue writing, essays, and commercials.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTogether, the six units in the \u003cb\u003eWriting Skills Curriculum Library\u003c\/b\u003e give you an unparalleled store of tested, ready-to-use exercises for building skills in all aspects of writing. They will help your students learn the elements of effective writing and enjoy the experience at the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJack Umstatter\u003c\/b\u003e, a master English teacher with over 25 years' experience, is a multiple winner of the Teacher of the Year award. He currently teaches English in the Cold Spring Harbor School District in New York and educationand literature at Dowling College in Oakdale, New York. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBrain Games!\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHooked on English!\u003c\/i\u003e and other practical teacher resources published by The Center.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 140\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 11 x 8.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 23, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52504828117299,"sku":"9780876284872","price":36.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/VkdQUjhUeWowbmNKTVQ1cE9DcUUvQT09.webp?v=1760201928","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/ready-to-use-portfolio-development-activities-unit-6-includes-90-sequential-activities-for-building-individual-student-portfolios-in-grades-6-throug-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}