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Rating:  - A Quick Daily Dose of English
"English Workshop Activities" is a great, ready-to-use workbook for Grades 6 to 12. The book is divided into 36 weekly units, and each weekly unit is divided into 5 quick daily activities. Every unit starts with a passage written by a student, and the activities that follow look at a combination of any of the following: genre, sequencing, inferencing, summarising, style, plot, setting, character, theme, mood, figurative language, imagery, effective conclusions, hooks, hunour, punctuation, capitalisation, subject/verb agreement, adjective/adverb usage, pronoun usage, parallelism and more.
I find the book a good, comprehensive resource for helping students understand how literature, reading, writing and grammar all work together to produce effective communication. I live in Australia, where the teaching of English at school, over recent years, has been hijacked by "progressives" and "trendies", and I find that the English resource books that I can buy from America are of a much higher standard than those available in my country. This book is one of them.
Rating:  - Wonderful resource!
I have been struggling to find something that combines grammar, with good writing and comparing it to readings. It has been very useful in my classroom.
Rating: - Truly Ready-to-Use!
As a middle school writing teacher, it is always my goal to optimize the effectiveness of writing workshop. Most "ready-to-use" teacher resources that are suitable for mini-lessons fall short of my expectations, so I tend to create my own. Every page of this book is useful! The handouts may be used in any order and cover a wide range of literary devices, grammar rules and writing skills. Students read and respond to high-interest passages to develop as readers and writers. I highly recommend this resource!
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