Writing Tips From Authors
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January 25, 2012
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Grace Hatton – Teen Author – Writing Tip from North Carolina
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Top 10 Writing Tips Chart $2.49 Convenient, useful learning tools that decorate as they educate! Each chart measures 17″ by 22″. Related lessons and activities are provided on the back of every chart. |
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Mother Goose Reading Writing & Math Activities from ME $21.99 Use nursery rhymes to teach skills in reading, writing, and math. English language learners pick up the language quickly and easily through the rhyme-based activities. The book has 15 units. Each unit has a full-color transparency featuring a rhyme and the artwork of Mary Engelbreit, a black-and-white version of the rhyme, teaching tips, standards and benchmarks, two pages of reading activities, two pages of writing activities, and two pages of math activities. 128pp. + 16 full-color transparencies. |
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Writing a State Report $8.99 Step-by-step instructions for writing reports on the 50 U.S. states. Tips on research, writing, and classroom projects. |
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Beginning Writing $10.99 Give emergent writers the practice they need as they progress from the scribbling stage to writing paragraphs. This book features a variety of activities for the different phases of writing, as well as writing samples from actual emergent writers.The activities target standards in these areas: the writing process conventions in writing writing using graphic methods to describe high frequency vocabulary complete sentences |
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Tips & Tricks for Using Digital Photography $18.99 Learn dozens of creative ways to incorporate digital cameras and photography into your classroom-writing prompts, art projects, report presentations, pen pals, and more! |
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Essential Skills: Reading & Writing Grd 2 $19.99 Can you imagine how wonderful it would be if the students in your classroom could acquire the skills they need to be ready for on-grade instruction? This series of books is designed to do just that! Based on standards from all the national organizations and several states, the authors have determined the top prerequisite skills that a student going into a certain grade level should have to be successful in that grade. They have designed lessons based on the findings of leading educational researchers. And they have developed a practical, teacher-tested system for preparing students to master the content that states require them to know. Each book in the Essential Skills series is full of straightforward lessons and activities to activate students’ prior knowledge of a particular skill. Upon successful completion, students will be ready for on-grade instruction that builds upon that skill. You can teach your curriculum, confident that all your students are ready to learn it. If students lack some skills they need, additional PAL Packets are available on the CDs that come with the books. These Parent-Assisted Learning activities help students catch up with the rest of the class. The PAL activities are provided in both English and Spanish. 176 pages + 2 CDs |
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2010 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market $0.99 BEST RESOURCE AVAILABLE FOR GETTING YOUR FICTION PUBLISHEDFor three decades, fiction writers have turned to Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market to keep them up-to-date on the industry and help them get published. Whatever your genre or form, the 2010 edition of Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market tells you who to contact and what to send them. In this edition you-ll find:Complete, up-to-date contact information for 1,200 book publishers, magazines and journals, literary agents, contests and conferences. News with novelists such as Gregory Frost, Jonathan Mayberry, Carolyn Hart, Chelsea Cain, Mary Rosenblum, Brian Evenson and Patricia Briggs, plus interviews with four debut authors who share their stories and offer advice.Nearly 200 pages of informative and inspirational articles on the craft and business of fiction, including pieces on a writing humor, satire, unsympathetic characters, and genre fiction; tips from editors and authors on how to get published; exercises to improve your craft; and more.Features devoted to genre writing including romance, mystery, and speculative fiction.And-new this year-access to all Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market listings in a searchable online database! |
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Beat the Recession: Proven Marketing Tactics $42.87 Beat any recession, boost your sales with these proven and easy to implement marketing and copywriting tactics.Powerful sales letter writing techniques, innovative marketing ideas and fresh business tips are helping many business owners boost their growth; effectively beating global economic downturns. Now you can discover the valuable advice they take from Carol Bentley’s online blog and use on a daily basis.Carol Bentley shares her skills and knowledge from many years of business and sales writing experience on her online blog at copywriting4b2b.comNow she has distilled this valuable advice into an easy to read — and use — reference book. Take action; implement the powerful techniques revealed in the selection of 139 posts from her copywriting blog. * 28 Writing Tips Make Your Sales Letters Zing* 27 Direct Marketing Insights Boost Your Sales Results* 37 Articles Save Time & Deliver Valuable Business Resources* 11 Inspirational Pearls of Wisdom Motivate You To Success* 13 Web Marketing Tips Expand Your Global ReachAnd revel in the enlightened thinking revealed in the 19 contributions from these expert authors, each with their own popular online blog…Ed Rivis, Rich Schefren, Dr Martin Russell, Terry Dean, Mark Brownlow, Tui Nijoux, Jill Konrath, Hill Robertson, Cindy Silbert and Marc Kline.The book includes the private, subscriber-only messages Carol sent out with download links for bonus reports and audio gifts. |
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Building OpenSocial Apps: A Field Guide to Working with the MySpace Platform $8.39 “The authors did a great job covering the various ins and outs of OpenSocial, and especially the specific MySpace quirks. If you are a new social networking application developer or even someone who just wants to write better OpenSocial Apps, then this book has what you are looking for.”–Cassandra Doll, Software Engineer, GoogleThe Insider’s Guide to Writing OpenSocial Applications for MySpace–and Beyond!When you write OpenSocial applications for MySpace, you can reach millions of users overnight. Building OpenSocial Apps shows you how, one step at a time. Whether you’re building casual widgets or feature-rich, professional applications, this book will teach you everything you need to know.The authors are the leading experts on OpenSocial and MySpace and have personally helped construct the MySpace platform and OpenSocial standards. In this indispensable book, they walk you through the entire process of building apps, from signing up through building complex apps that can scale to thousands of users and interoperate on more than fifty social networks, such as Hi5, Orkut, and LinkedIn. They demonstrate today’s best practices for building OpenSocial applications and present dozens of tips for leveraging both MySpace and OpenSocial to their fullest. Coverage includes Installing and working with the MySpace Developer Platform Retrieving, parsing, and displaying user data, friend lists, and photos Sending App invitations and notifications Building mashups that communicate with third-party web services Marketing your App and building your user base Designing for performance, scalability, and fault tolerance Securing MySpace and OpenSocial apps, and protecting users’ privacy Building apps that display ads and accept micropaymentsA companion web site (opensocialtictactoe.googlecode.com) includes an extensive library of downloadable source code and other support |
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Building OpenSocial Apps: A Field Guide to Working with the MySpace Platform $35.99 “The authors did a great job covering the various ins and outs of OpenSocial, and especially the specific MySpace quirks. If you are a new social networking application developer or even someone who just wants to write better OpenSocial Apps, then this book has what you are looking for.”–Cassandra Doll, Software Engineer, GoogleThe Insider’s Guide to Writing OpenSocial Applications for MySpace–and Beyond!When you write OpenSocial applications for MySpace, you can reach millions of users overnight. Building OpenSocial Apps shows you how, one step at a time. Whether you’re building casual widgets or feature-rich, professional applications, this book will teach you everything you need to know.The authors are the leading experts on OpenSocial and MySpace and have personally helped construct the MySpace platform and OpenSocial standards. In this indispensable book, they walk you through the entire process of building apps, from signing up through building complex apps that can scale to thousands of users and interoperate on more than fifty social networks, such as Hi5, Orkut, and LinkedIn. They demonstrate today’s best practices for building OpenSocial applications and present dozens of tips for leveraging both MySpace and OpenSocial to their fullest. Coverage includes Installing and working with the MySpace Developer Platform Retrieving, parsing, and displaying user data, friend lists, and photos Sending App invitations and notifications Building mashups that communicate with third-party web services Marketing your App and building your user base Designing for performance, scalability, and fault tolerance Securing MySpace and OpenSocial apps, and protecting users’ privacy Building apps that display ads and accept micropaymentsA companion web site (opensocialtictactoe.googlecode.com) includes an extensive library of downloadable source code and other support |
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Children’s Book Corner: A Read-Aloud Resource with Tips, Techniques, and Plans for Teachers, Librarians, and Parents Grades 3 and 4 $16.95 This third book in the four-book Children’s Book Corner set provides a complete program for those starting a read-aloud program in their classroom, their school or public library, or their home. This volume focuses on read-alouds for children in grades 3 and 4. It provides book lists, book selection ideas, as well as pre-reading, while-reading, and post-reading questions and activities. Parent Pull-Out Pages with helpful tips are provided for duplication. Helpful appendices and an index furnish additional aides to structure a great read-aloud program. New in this book is a section, Up Close and Personal, of personal notes from children’s authors discussing their books featured in the read-aloud section. Also new to the section is Write Away, providing writing tips and activities.This third book in the four-book Children’s Book Corner set provides a complete program for those starting a read-aloud program at home, in their classroom or school, or their public library. This volume focuses on read-alouds for children in grades 3 and 4. It provides book lists, book selection ideas, as well as pre-reading, while-reading, and post-reading questions and activities. Parent Pull-Out Pages with helpful tips are provided for duplication. Helpful appendices and an index furnish additional aides to structure a great read-aloud program. New in this book, is a section, Up Close and Personal, of personal notes from children’s authors discussing their books featured in the read-aloud section. Also new to the section is Write Away, providing writing tips and activities. Grades 3 and 4. |
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Creating Writers, Revised and Updated Edition: A creative writing manual for Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 $42.15 Praise for the first edition of Creating Writers: ‘I’m extremely impressed by Creating Writers and I refer to it and recommend it during school visits and talks. It really explores its subject, and offers an important, beautifully researched and well-expressed alternative to shallow, quick-fix approaches to creative writing.’ – David Almond, Author of SkelligAre you looking for a range of inspiring creative writing workshop activities? Would you like practical writing tips and advice from professional children’s authors?Creating Writers is a practical writing manual for KS2 and KS3 teachers. Covering all strands of the English curriculum — poetry, fiction and non-fiction writing — this unique book includes:original interviews from professional, popular and award winning writers and poets about how they workphotocopiable writing workshop activities to use in the classroomexamples of poetry, fiction and non-fiction writing to inspire your pupilsadvice on writing in different genres and formsfull exploration of the inherent elements of poetry (image, rhythm, rhyme), fiction (narration, plot, characterisation) and non-fiction (structure, media, audience).Now revised and updated, this unique and critically-acclaimed book contains a wealth of in-depth, invaluable advice and insight into the writing process from a wide range of award-winning contemporary children’s authors, including: Michael Morpurgo, David Almond, Philip Pullman, Benjamin Zephaniah, Jacqueline Wilson, Roger McGough, Malorie Blackman, John Foster, Nick Arnold, Gillian Cross, Berlie Doherty and many more.Ideal for teachers that want to encourage and enthuse children to write, and valuable to students on initial teacher training courses, this book covers the writing process from start to finish in a way which is informative, innovative and fun. |