Book Description
Get ready to transform "ho-hum" intermediate-grade writers into mature writers who love to write -- and perform well on assessments. Razzle Dazzle Writing shows you how to teach narrative and informational writing through mastery of 50 key, target writing skills. Your students succeed because Razzle Dazzle Writing: - organizes writing craft teaching into standards-based single-lesson chunks for easy modeling practice, and mastery. - addresses different learning styles, preferences, and interests with a variety of student-friendly formats to teach writing strategies. - makes learning easy and fun wtih student-oriented writing craft lessons, checklists, models, student exercises, and graphic organizers. Move your students to the next level with Razzle Dazzle Writing!
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Fun lessons for teaching grammar ( teacheskidz )
This book is great! I love the plays the kids can act out and also the way the lessons are laid out makes it easy to teach and for the kids to understand. The activities are fun and my class doesn't moan and groan when I do activities from this book!
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Razzle Dazzle Writing ( teachkids2read )
This is a great book for any teacher. It gives great ideas for teaching writing in an exciting way! I recommend Melissa's other books as well.
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Great Resource!
After borrowing this book from a colleague, I decided I had to have my own copy. It's a resource I keep going back to each year. My sixth graders love the activities, which are fun and easy to follow. Melissa Forney knows how to motivate students to improve their writing.
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Truly full of Razzle Dazzle!
I am using this as my guide for writing instruction in my classroom. This book is full of fun activities that involve the students, while delivering the message.
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good job breaking down the steps of writing
Great ideas for beginning writers in terms of organization. Breaks down the steps simply. Explains what makes interesting writing.
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