1st Edition

33 Ways to Help with Writing Supporting Children who Struggle with Basic Skills

By Raewyn Hickey Copyright 2010
136 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

136 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

136 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

33 Ways to Help with Writing equips teachers and teaching assistants with a wide range of practical resources to help children who are having difficulties learning the basic skills of writing. Offering a range of activities and games to engage children and encourage motivation in the classroom, this essential classroom companion provides ready-to-use material that doesn’t need lengthy... Read more

@contents: Selected Contents: The series  Acknowledgements  Introduction  Part A Beginnings  1. Sorting Game  2. From Letters to Sentences  3. Instant Writing  4. Disappearing Words  5. Musical Stops  6. Full Stop Game  Part B Writing longer sentences  7. Verbs in Action  8. Walk this way  9. Snakes and Verbs  10. A noun crossword  11. Rob the Nest  12. Adjective Poem  13. Adjectives Antonyms  14. Signing Off  15. Moving Adverbs  16. Connectives Card Game  17. Connectives To and Fro  Part C Improving Content  18. Musical sentences  19. Connect 3  20. All Change  21. Non-Stop Sentences  22. Cinderella Simile  23. Six Sizzling Sausages  24. How do you feel?  25. Guess the mood  26. Castle Adventure  27. Talk, Talk, Talk  Part D Non-Fiction  28. Lingo  29. Musical Halves  30. Muddled emails  31. Information, Information, Information  32. 20 Questions  33. A Technical Crossword  Glossary

Biography

Raewyn Hickey is an experienced classroom teacher who has worked in both the Literacy Initiative for Teachers project in Westminster and as a consultant for the Primary Strategy.