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Written by Tanis Knight and Larry Lewin, Open the Deck, is geared
for middle school students. Eight units cover all aspects of writing.
Each unit begins with oral language activities, moves onto sentence
combining skills, and culminates with a process-oriented writing
assignment. Students practice narrative, persuasive, and expository
essays, a writing across the curriculum topic, and a famous American
report.
Key Features:
- Oral language activities build students’ confidence as they
paraphrase never heard before sentences, flip-flop words, create new
verbs, and explain idioms.
- Students combine sentences with connectors, verbs, describers,
glue words (conjunctions), WH words (relative pronouns), and ING words
(verbals).
- Fragments and run-ons are attacked head-on.
- Sentence combining techniques are used to identify and correct these common errors.
- Rearranging sentences teaches students how to avoid repetitious sentence beginnings – “The,” “I,” “And so,” “Then,”, etc.
- Students practice expanding ideas with journalistic questions.
- The writing assignments help students to describe a scene,
persuade an audience, explain something they know from another academic
area, narrate a memory, and observe an event.
- Think sheets help students focus on the content of their paper.
- Students practice the famous I Believe That tip to identify fragments.
- The famous American report teaches a step-by-step process for research writing.
- Checklist sheets aid students in peer evaluation – cooperative learning.
Scope and Sequence
Oral Language:
The language machine
Functional shift
Never heard before sentences
Creating new moods
Flexible words
Many meanings of a word
Stretched meanings – idioms
Creating new words
How to create new names
Reading aloud – all stages of the writing process
Sentence Combining – Sentence Fluency:
Combining with colorful words
Expanding with journalistic questions
Combining with verbs
Combining with and, but, and or
Combining with glue words
Rearranging
Combining with WH words
Combining with ING words
Fragments and run-ons
The Writing Process:
Describing a scene – description (Reporter)
Letter of complaint – persuasion
Composing with an SOS Sheet
Showing action with ING words – narration
Explaining – write to learn topic
Narrating a personal memory
Observing an event – (3rd)
Report writing – famous
American
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