Wordsmithing

by Arlene F. Marks

Made for All is a classroom-ready, teacher-friendly resource for English and Writing teachers of Grades 9 through 12. Organized buffet style, it is designed to complement an existing English curriculum by providing a tested repertoire of strategies for teaching both writing skills and literary analysis techniques.

Benefits and

tested and proven effective at all learning levels, from Remedial to Pre-APprovides complete lesson plans including reproducible materials can be implemented as is or modified to suit individual teaching styles and/or students' needseach skill, assignment or project begins by 'teaching the teacher', giving an inexperienced teacher the knowledge to provide effective instruction first time out and the confidence to modify and experiment thereaftercomprised of reading, writing, literary criticism and language-study componentsmoves students from writing effectively to reading analytically (approaching text from the authoring point of view), a proven, highly successful methodologycan turn any English course into a Literacy courseextremely versatile and cost-effectivecan deepen an existing English course or complete the framework for a new one
WORDSMITHING focuses on the creation, production and sharing of a variety of nonfiction writing projects. The textcan be implemented in the classroom alone or in tandem with the two other titles in the Made for All Series —STORY CRAFTING and ENJOYING LITERATURE.


Also of interest for classroom teachers is the Let Them Write Series

CHARACTER Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Writing and Literary Analysis Skills in Grades 4 to 8
PLOT Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Writing and Literary Analysis Skills in Grades 4 to 8
SETTING AND Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Writing and Literary Analysis Skills in Grades 4 to 8

246 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Born and raised in Toronto, Arlene F. Marks found her muse at the age of 6. Her first written story was a fantasy about a tiny boy who did everything backwards and rode around on a dragonfly. She has been writing and sharing her stories ever since.

Arlene's dual passions are writing and teaching, and she has indulged them both liberally over the years, chalking up publishing credits in multiple fiction and nonfiction genres between stints in the high school classroom. She retired officially from teaching in 2012 and now devotes herself full-time to writing (and teaching writing workshops), which is keeping her even busier than she was before.

Currently working on Sic Transit Terra, a series of space opera novels set at the turn of the 25th century, Arlene F. Marks lives with her husband on the shore of Nottawasaga Bay, where she happily reads, crochets, works logic problems and collects owls of every description.