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Flip the Deck provides a variety of writing skills to improve
sentence style and paragraph development while Flip’s teacher’s manual
includes information about cooperative learning strategies and contains
cooperative learning feedback and grading sheets.
Tanis Knight, the Director of Curriculum in the Camas School District
and former educator of the year in Washington, authored Flip the Deck.
Key features:
- Oral language activities begin each chapter to help bridge oral
and written language. Students have fun practicing with scrambled
sentences, new beginnings, a language warehouse, and interview
techniques.
- Students combine and stretch with connectors, color words, ING words, etc. The sentences are fun!
- Easy composing rules – commas in a series, wiping out fragments, punctuating with glue words – are presented.
- Special teaching tips help students identify and correct fragments.
- Writing with style encourages students to do just that by using
similes, creating a mood, jazzing up with alliteration, writing for an
audience, and hooking the reader with a strong lead.
- The topics are fun: describing a scene, writing a character
sketch, describing a wacky invention, arguing your opinion, writing an
article for People magazine, and writing an on the job memo.
- All writing assignments follow the process approach – prewriting, writing, rewriting and publishing.
- Special tips for writing the first draft – sloppy copy – are highlighted.
- An illustrated grading sheet in our teacher’s guide corresponds to the student learning objectives listed for each assignment.
- Student think sheets (graphic organizers) teach young authors to brainstorm.
- Our famous Sentence Opening Sheet helps students to identify and
correct common problems – variety in openings, fragments, tense shift,
etc.
- Cooperative learning strategies stress group interaction.
Scope and Sequence
Oral Language:
Scrambled sentences
Language blocks
Playing with new beginnings
Language warehouse – synonyms
Backing up your ideas
Interview techniques
Reading aloud – all stages of the writing process
Sentence Combining – Sentence Fluency:
Pasting together sentences – expanding
Stretching new sentences – expanding
Combining with glue words
Combining with connectors
Combining with ING words
The Writing Process:
Describing a room
Writing a character sketch – a favorite person
Creating a new invention – a skateboard of the future
Persuasive letter to the principal or teacher
Writing an article – People magazine
Writing an on the job memo
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