Writing Basics, a textbook for students in grades 7-9, offers a solid introduction to writing sentences, paragraphs, and essays. This book provides excellent practice and preparation for all writing tests. Step-by-step lessons teach students how to write complete sentences, use transitions, combine ideas, and expand sentences. Students read and analyze models, then write original paragraphs using the major writing strategies: narration; description, exposition, example, definition, persuasion, comparison and contrast, cause and effect. In the last section of the text, students apply what they have learned about writing paragraphs to writing essays.
From the time that the first drawing appeared on a cave wall, human beings have had a need to communicate in writing. Early writers used pictures to express feelings and thoughts. Today, the use of written language enables us to express a wide range of emotions and ideas.
The small but growing body of information about auditory processes in infancy is a tribute to the ingenuity and persistence of investigators in this realm. Undeter red by the frequent expressions of boredom, rage, and indifference in their subjects, these investigators nevertheless continue to seek answers to the intrigu ing but difficult questions about the course of auditory development. In the spring of 1981, a group of leading scholars and researchers in audi tion gathered to discuss the topic, Auditory Development in Infancy, at the 11th annual psychology symposium at Erindale College, University of Toronto. They came from both sides of the Atlantic and from various disciplines, including audiology, neurology, physics, and psychology. They shared their views on theory and data, as well as their perspectives from the laboratory and clinic. One unexpected bonus was an unusually distinguished audience of researchers and clinicians who contributed to lively discussion within and beyond the formal sessions.
Literacy Assessment and Instructional Strategies by Kathy B. Grant, Sandra E. Golden, and Nance S. Wilson prepares literacy educators to conduct reading and writing assessments and develop appropriate corrective literacy strategies for use with their grade K–5 students. Connecting Common Core Literacy Learning Standards to effective strategies and creative activities, the book includes authentic literacy assessments and formal evaluations to support reading teaching in the elementary classroom. Initial chapters discuss literacy assessment and evaluation, data-driven instruction, high-stakes testing, and instructional shifts in teaching reading. Subsequent chapters focus on the latest instructional and assessment shifts, including pre-assessing literacy knowledge bases, using informational texts for vocabulary development, and close reading of text. Written by reading practitioners and researchers, this book is a must-have for novices as well as for veteran classroom teachers who want to stay on top of changing literacy trends.
Goals include to understand the basic structure and elements of the short story, sharpen reading comprehension skills through critical reading, and give opportunities to use elements of literary style in writing.
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