This handbook compresses seventeen years of practical classroom experience, documenting freewriting successes and recommending strategies for managing this often-inspired verbal expression. The handbook includes practical advice and examples of students' freewriting. The Read-Along Handbook Seductive technologies outside the classroom often undermine the development of a student's reading skills. But the classroom itself can be the perfect forum in which to build enthusiasm for the written word. This handbook details a program of daily dictation sentences focused on grammar, usage, and stylistic clarity.
Students progress from parts of speech to the analysis of clauses.
The entire class works on a single sentence for about five minutes each day. Students learn the mechanics of language one step at a time and culminate each week by dictating a sentence of their own. This first Performance English text in the Middle School Series uses radio drama as the stage for an activities-charged language arts program. Classic radio thrillers, Hawaiian ghost stories, and local student writing energize an intriguing array of individual and group projects. Included are journal freewriting topics keyed to each lesson.