From soaring skyscrapers to rumbling subways, power shopping to bargain–hunting, world–renowned restaurants to neighborhood delis and pizzerias, majestic cathedrals to Times Square New York has it all. Chances are you can′t do it all, but this friendly guide helps you take a big bite out of the Big Apple.
Salaam! [suh-LAHM] This is a word you’ll hear often if you travel in the Middle East. The word means “peace,” and in Iran it also means “Hello!” It’s easy to find Iran on a map. Do you see the country shaped like a cat leaping over the Persian Gulf? That’s Iran! It’s big, about 636,000 square miles (1,648,000 square kilometers), the second-largest nation in the Middle East. Iran is surrounded by 10 nations and large bodies of water.
At last! A companion activity book to the immensely popular Four Square Writing Method.
Chock-full of projects and ideas that are tailor-made to work with the Four Square Writing Method, this volume includes age-appropriate activities designed to:
take advantage of the language-learning connection and help students use what they know to learn new things; introduce ideas for a total writing classroom including management tools and techniques; provide mini lessons, warm-ups and other projects for writing experiences which also address some of the more troublesome student writing habits; improve compositions with examples and exercises drawn from actual student work and classroom experiences!
Teach writing skills using this innovative new approach that has been proven to work in classrooms just like yours. The Four Square method can be used with all forms of writing and will fit any reading or language arts program. This step-by-step approach is built around a simple graphic organizer that first shows students how to collect ideas and then helps them use those ideas to create clear and polished prose. Open-ended reproducibles make the technique accessible to writers of all ability ranges. Also great for content area writing.
This book in the popular Four Square series provides a personal coach for students to help them write. Included are 13 themed units designed to meet the interests and abilities of writers in grades 7-9. Each unit brings the prewriting through art, word association, questions, poetry, planning and composition of prose. The exercises will help students learn to be less fearful of writing assignments and actually make them fun! The topics are personal ones young writers will enjoy: themselves, their families and friends, their favorite places to go and things to do, etc.
