Ready-to-Use English Workshop Activities for Grades 6-12 6-12年级英语活动课

This unique resource gives middle and secondary school English teachers 180 high-interest activities that build students--proficiency in the three major areas of the English curriculum--reading/literature, writing, and grammar. All the activities have been classroom tested, can be used with students of varying ability, and are effective as individual, group, or whole-class activities.
　　This unique resource gives middle and secondary school English teachers 180 high-interest activities that build students proficiency in the three major areas of the English curriculum—reading/literature, writing, and grammar. All the activities have been classroom tested, can be used with students of varying ability, and are effective as individual, group, or whole-class activities.
　　For quick access and easy use, the activities are organized into 36 weekly packets—each packet including five “Dailies”—and printed in a big 8-1/4” x 11” spiral-bound format that folds flat for photocopying.
　　Each “Dailies” activity begins with a well-written student passage followed by prompts that encourage students to examine the passage in terms of usage, stylistic devices, grammatical concepts, punctuation, and reading/literature skills. The activities require students to learn the rules that apply and to use the examples as springboards for their own writing.
　　Youll find that these integrated “Dailies” activities are ideally flexible. They can be completed as “warm-ups” at the beginning of class, as mini-reviews for more advanced students, or serve as walk-through activities or homework assignments for students who need reinforcement. Each activity will lead to inquiry and lively discussion as students analyze the model passage and learn to write effectively based on:
　　GENRES REQUIRED ON STANDARDIZED WRITING TESTS including descriptive writing, narrative writing, expository writing, and persuasive writing as well as vignettes, character sketches, comparison/contrast, how-to directions, and poetry.
　　READING SKILLS AND LITERARY ELEMENTS such as sequencing, inference, summarizing, authors style, plot, setting, characterization, theme, mood/tone, and irony.
　　STYLISTIC WRITING DEVICES such as vivid verbs, hyphenated modifiers, figurative language—similes, metaphors, and personification—repetition for effect, imagery, the unique “magic three,” full-circle endings, interrupters, the narrative “hook,” and humor.
　　RULES OF GRAMMAR, USAGE, MECHANICS, AND STRUCTURE including capitalization, punctuation, subject-verb agreement, fragments, run-ons, adjective/adverb usage, pronoun usage, sentence combining, parallel structure, varying sentence structure, phrases, and clauses.
　　A handy “Glossary of Terms” and the authors unique “Smiley-Face Tricks” can be reproduced for students convenient reference as they complete the 180 “Dailies” and other writing assignments.
　　In short, English Workshop Activities for Grades 6-12 gives you an effective and proven way to develop each students writing competency regardless of grade or ability level. Once you guide students through the first few activities, they will gain confidence and begin to change ordinary writing into powerful writing.

作者简介：
Mary Ellen Ledbetter was born in Texas City ,Texas,attended Texas Lutheran College,Graduated from Western Michigan University with a B.A.in English and Speech,and earned an M.A.in English from Michigan State University.She has taught in public schools in Michigan and Texas as well as at San Jacinto college in Pasadena,Texas, Ms,Ledbetters,has been an instructor in the Writing Process Workshop for teachers,has been a presenter at TMSA and NCTE,has received Goose Creek IISD'S Board of Trustees'Bell Award for Outstanding Teacher in 1995 and 1997.and is currently a presenter / consultant for the Bureau of Education and Research in Bellevue,Washington.