Check the Deck
A student writing book, teacher's manual, and computer software. Suggested grade levels are
3 and / or 4.
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Geared for third or fourth grade students, Check the Deck includes eight units covering the major writing modes, plus literature-based writing and a research unit. Each unit includes four components leading up to a process-oriented assignment. Oral language activities, sentence combining techniques, a functional composing rule, and writing with style activities serve as mini-lessons before each prompt. A scoring rubric, think sheet, and checklist sheet are provided for each writing prompt.
Larry Lewin, a teacher in the Eugene, Oregon School District, authored Check.
Key features:
- Major assignments: describing a neighborhood place, problem-solving with super turkey, writing a detective report, persuading parents, narrating an "owie," explaining how to become a successful writer, writing about literature, and researching planets or dinosaurs.
- Oral language activities establish a positive attitude. Students have fun working with colorful words, flexible words, creating new names (sniglets), role-playing an argument, building a character, and brainstorming facts.
- Sentence combining drills build a writer's vocabulary. Students combine with colorful words, glue words, compound subjects, compound predicates, and compound sentences.
- Composing rules: punctuating a series of ideas, punctuating glue words, recognizing and correcting fragments, using quotation marks, and indenting paragraphs.
Reasonable Prices:
Catalog # 150S--Softbound--10 or more books $10.95 each; 1-9 books $12.95 each
Catalog # 150H--Hardbound--10 or more books $14.95 each; 1-9 books, $16.95 each
Catalog # 150TM--Teacher's manual--with an order of 25 or more student books, the manual is free. Otherwise it is $10.00.
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