The Writing Teacher's Book of Lists: With Ready-To-Use Activities and Worksheets

By Gary Robert Muschla

Book Overview

This is the second edition of the unique information source and timesaver for English and language arts teachers. The Writing Teacher's Book of Lists with Ready-to-Use Activities and Worksheets includes 90 useful lists for developing instructional materials and planning lessons for elementary and secondary students. In addition, the book includes innovative activities and reproducible black line masters that help students to improve their writing skills, word usage, and vocabulary. For quick access and easy use, all of these lists and activities are organized into seven sections and individually printed in a format that can be photocopied as many times as required for individual or group instruction. This handy resource is filled with helpful lists, activities, teaching suggestions, and reproducible worksheets.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787970808
• ISBN13: 9780787970802
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.4" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

awesome

This book has so many good ideas and ways of teaching writing to students. I have found it very useful to use with my 3rd graders and I can see it being used in most all grades. The lists are fantastic and offer the children the vocabulary to make their writing more enjoyable to read.

Good Resource Book to Supplement other Texts

I taught English for nearly eight years before I found this book. Now, I use it regularly for a community ESL class I teach in my spare time. The lists of words and writing prompts are useful for students to remember the words they already know and learn a few other words that they haven't been exposed to yet. My students like the question writing prompts because they are very useful for starting great discussions. This book can be used in many more ways too. I am going to use some to the lists in this book in my college-level English class for journal/free writing prompts. Often my students complaint that they don't know where to start on writing assignments, so the list of words and questions can prime the pump and get the sentences flowing onto the page. This book and the others in the Book of Lists series are excellent resources for any teacher's personal library. They are great go-to staples for ideas on regularly covered topics.

An effective tool for teaching writing, BUT...

The Writing Teacher's Book of Lists is a useful resource for teachers of writing, but it is more technical and perhaps better suited to beginning teachers who might appreciate the 90 useful lists for developing instructional materials, activities, teaching suggestions etc. I would recommend using this book together with another effective book on teaching writing titled, "Writing Process Activities Kit: 75 Ready-to-use Lessons & Worksheets for Grades 7-12".

great teaching tool

I found the information in this book to be very helpful in my classroom. There are great lessons on all different types of writing. They are very easy to follow and adaptable for different grade levels. Very useable.

Practical and on-target !

A can't-be-beat classroom resource for teaching writing