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Book has over 100 minilessons developed by Nancie Atwell to improve her students' (7th and 8th grades) writing. Lessons are divided into four categories: Lessons about Topics (ways to help students develop ideas for pieces of writing); Lessons about Principles (ways to think and craft deliberately to create meaningful, literary writing); Lessons about Genres (how to observe, name, and internalize the qualities of good free verse, formatted poetry, essays, short stories, memories, parodies, and book reviews); and Lessons about Conventions. Accompanying binder has reproducible and overheads. Two-week loan period. | |