Prewriting for the Common Core: Writing, Language, Reading, and Speaking & Listening Activities Aligned to the Common Core

NOTE: This is replaced by Writing for the Common Core.

Need to improve your student's writing under the Common Core? Prewriting-the initial phase of the writing process-can transform student writing. The varied activities in this book stimulate thought, reflection, memories, and research. Students try out words and phrases and choose effective language. Students learn to organize and structure their work. Students generate material while addressing both structure and language. Strong prewriting activities alone can't guarantee strong results. But strong prewriting activities set the stage for strong first drafts, which have a jump start in the revision process.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Oral Storytelling
Using Strong Words
Adding Details Ugly
Writing Planning to Write Informative and Explanatory Texts Planning to Write Arguments
Planning Fiction
Folk Tales
Sample Answers