Lyric Writing Exercises
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Writing Workshop $24.99 Writing Workshop is designed for busy teachers who are seeking a comprehensive resource for teaching the writing process. persuasive, expository, narrative, and poetry writing lessons student samples writing rubrics graphic organizers language use and convention lessons writing process lessons assessment checklist daily writing exercises homework suggestions portfolio instructions bulletin board ideas writing enrichment activities |
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Writing Prompts Set (6 boxes) $119.94 These high-interest prompt cards encourage students to express creativity while learning how to write using a variety of styles. Each box includes prompts in six categories: Narrative, Expository, Persuasive, Descriptive, Poetry, and Journal writing.Prompts can be used in a variety of ways: Whole-class assignments Homework assignments Center activities Small-group projects Writing test practiceEach box includes 120 durable 4″ x 6″ prompt cards plus six dividers with detailed information on each of the six categories.This set includes the following: Writing Prompts, Grade 1 Writing Prompts, Grade 2 Writing Prompts, Grade 3 Writing Prompts, Grade 4 Writing Prompts, Grade 5 Writing Prompts, Grade 6 |
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Mysteries for Writing and Critical Thinking $11.99 Motivate students with writing prompts and critical thinking exercises based on mysteries. Each of the seven mysteries presented in the book requires students to break down the clues and filter through the evidence using everything from deductive reasoning to math and science skills. Students then write their conclusions about the guilt or innocence of the parties involved. Some may write a persuasive argument from the perspective of an attorney. Others may write a narrative story from the viewpoint of a suspect. Still others may write an investigator’s expository presentation of the facts.Lively discussions and lots of learning are sure to take place. An answer key is provided, but students who become involved in higher-level thinking may come up with other ideas! As in America’s courtrooms, well-supported arguments may be rewarded. |
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Strategies That Work! Fiction Writing, Grades 5-8 $18.99 Develop effective fiction writing skills with strategies that work! 38 lessons offer practical guidance on writing narratives and stories. Each lesson includes an explanation of the skill being addressed, followed by a variety of exercises.In Strategies That Work: Fiction Writing, students will practice the following skills: choosing titles using all the senses creating characters selecting a point of view structuring using metaphors, similes, and clich233s creating atmosphere much more The activities are aligned with national standards and benchmarks. Answers are provided where appropriate. |
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1000 Songwriting Ideas $19.99 A great tool for all songwriters looking for creative resources. 1000 Songwriting Ideas is a handy book of creativity exercises that stop writer’s block and spark the fire of your imagination. It offers concepts to ponder as starting places for lyric writing, along with some of the most provocative and inspirational examples you may encounter anywhere. Authored by a pro, these proven exercises are for moving the creative lyrical self, the soul, the real tool of songwriting and the real object of a song’s intention. |
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Craft of Christian Songwriting $24.99 Born from eight years of teaching songwriting for the Academy of Gospel Music Arts, Robert Sterling’s The Craft of Christian Songwriting deftly tackles the much-overlooked subject of craft in the Christian songwriter’s creative process. The book challenges its readers to aspire to the highest level of excellence, providing chapter after chapter of practical insights into the Christian songwriting experience. All the way from “Getting Started” to “Building a Demo,” The Craft of Christian Songwriting shows beginning writers how to make their next song their “best song ever,” all from the unique perspective of the Christian songwriter. Practical and realistic, The Craft of Christian Songwriting is a smart read for anyone with aspirations of becoming a Christian songwriter. Highlights: • Hundreds of examples from hit songs • Concise and practical instruction on all the essential elements of the songwriting process • Writing exercises to help you improve your craft • Learn the ins and outs of collaboration • Examine 10 full lyric reprints, complete with the author’s analysis • Discover how to produce a proper demo recording |
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How to Be a Hit Songwriter: Polishing and Marketing Your Lyrics and Music $8.44 You’ve written what you think is a great melody, what you hope is a strong lyric, and you’ve cut what sounds to you like a killer track. But how do you know if it’s a hit? And what do you do with it if it is? Your only option is How to Be a Hit Songwriter, essential reading for advanced songwriters. Molly-Ann Leikin is the award-winning songwriter/songwriting consultant who helps good songwriters all over the world become hit songwriters. Whether your work just needs a little rewriting, polishing or some strong connections, Leikin will guide you step by step to the top of the charts. In How to Be a Hit Songwriter she offers expert advice and exercises, including “Seven Easy Steps to Writing Hit Lyrics.” The book features inside information that can turn your song into a potential hit. What’s more, she’s interviewed music industry power players who share tips that are essential to all developing artists. |
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Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets $29.95 In Mentor and Muse, a collection of twenty-nine insightful essays by some of today’s leading poetic minds, editors Blas Falconer, Beth Martinelli, and Helena Mesa have brought together an illuminating anthology that draws upon both established and emerging poets to create a one-of-a-kind resource and unlock the secrets of writing and revising poetry.            Gathered here are numerous experts eager to share their wisdom with other writers. Each author examines in detail a particular poetic element, shedding new light on the endless possibilities of poetic forms. Addressed within are such topics as the fluid possibilities of imagery in poetry; the duality of myth and the personal, and the power of one to unlock the other; the surprising versatility of traditional poetic forms; and the pleasure of collaboration with other poets. Also explored in depth are the formative roles of cultural identity and expectations, and their effect on composition; advice on how to develop one’s personal poetic style and approach; the importance of setting in reading and meaning; and the value of indirection in the lyric poem. Challenges to conventional concepts of beauty are examined through Shakespeare’s sonnets, and the ghost of Longfellow is called upon to guide students through the rewards and roadblocks of writing popular poetry. Poetic persona is demystified through Newton’s law of gravity, while the countless permutations of punctuation are revealed with analysis of e. e. cummings and W. S. Merwin.            The essays include the full text of the poems discussed, and detailed, relevant writing exercises that allow students the opportunity to directly implement the strategies they have learned. While many advanced topics such as authenticity, discordant music, and prosody are covered, |
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Now Write!: Fiction Writing Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers $11.99 A collection of personal writing exercises and commentary from some of today’s best novelists, short story writers, and writing teachers, including Jill McCorkle, Amy Bloom, Robert Olen Butler, Steve Almond, Jayne Anne Phillips, Virgil Suárez, Margot Livesay, and more. What’s the secret behind the successful and prolific careers of critically acclaimed novelists and short story writers Amy Bloom, Steve Almond, Jayne Anne Phillips, Alison Lurie, and others? Divine assistance? Otherworldly talent? An unsettlingly close relationship with the Muse? While the rest of us are staring at blank sheets of paper, struggling to come up with a first sentence, these writers are busy polishing off story after story and novel after novel. Despite producing work that may seem effortless, all of them have a simple technique for fending off writer’s block: the writing exercise. In Now Write!, Sherry Ellis collects the personal writing exercises of today’s best writers and lays bare the secret to their success. – In “The Photograph,” Jill McCorkle divulges one of her tactics for handling material that takes plots in a million different directions;- National Book Award-nominee Amy Bloom offers “Water Buddies,” an exercise for writers practicing their craft in workshops;- Steve Almond, author of My Life in Heavy Metal and Candyfreak, provides a way to avoiding purple prose in “The Five-Second Shortcut to Writing in the Lyric Register”;- and eighty-three more of the country’s top writers disclose their strategies for creating memorable prose. Complemented by brief commentary from the authors themselves, the exercises in Now Write! are practical and hands-on. By encouraging writers to shamelessly steal proven techniques that have yielded books which have won National Book Awards, Pulitzers, and Guggenheim grants, Now Write! inspires the aspiring writer to write now. |
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Now Write!: Fiction Writing Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers $13.95 A collection of personal writing exercises and commentary from some of today’s best novelists, short story writers, and writing teachers, including Jill McCorkle, Amy Bloom, Robert Olen Butler, Steve Almond, Jayne Anne Phillips, Virgil Suárez, Margot Livesay, and more. What’s the secret behind the successful and prolific careers of critically acclaimed novelists and short story writers Amy Bloom, Steve Almond, Jayne Anne Phillips, Alison Lurie, and others? Divine assistance? Otherworldly talent? An unsettlingly close relationship with the Muse? While the rest of us are staring at blank sheets of paper, struggling to come up with a first sentence, these writers are busy polishing off story after story and novel after novel. Despite producing work that may seem effortless, all of them have a simple technique for fending off writer’s block: the writing exercise. In Now Write!, Sherry Ellis collects the personal writing exercises of today’s best writers and lays bare the secret to their success. – In “The Photograph,” Jill McCorkle divulges one of her tactics for handling material that takes plots in a million different directions;- National Book Award-nominee Amy Bloom offers “Water Buddies,” an exercise for writers practicing their craft in workshops;- Steve Almond, author of My Life in Heavy Metal and Candyfreak, provides a way to avoiding purple prose in “The Five-Second Shortcut to Writing in the Lyric Register”;- and eighty-three more of the country’s top writers disclose their strategies for creating memorable prose. Complemented by brief commentary from the authors themselves, the exercises in Now Write! are practical and hands-on. By encouraging writers to shamelessly steal proven techniques that have yielded books which have won National Book Awards, Pulitzers, and Guggenheim grants, Now Write! inspires the aspiring writer to write now. |