Product Description: Inspire students to practice and develop their creative writing skills with this extensive "ideabook." Lessons present concepts progressively, increasing the required level of student involvement. A wide range of activities cover such topics as synonyms, alliteration, poetry (including limericks, haiku, and cinquain), advertisements, nonfiction essays, research reports, character sketches, and short stories...read more

Product Description: By R.E. Myers. You borrow a friend's saw and break the blade. You replace it, but should you tell him? Your teacher mixes you up with another student and invites you to represent the school at a conference. Should you tell the teacher or let her discover the error later on? Twenty-nine stories explore these and other character dilemmas about integrity, kindness, trustworthiness, courage, goodwill, openness, industriousness, cooperation, and friendship...read more

Product Description: Looking for creative ideas to put the "fun" in language fundamentals? Then this is the book for you. The author takes a humorous approach to everyday topics: capitals, nouns, verbs, synonyms, similes, puns, adverbs, spelling, punctuation, malapropism, maxims and much more...read more

Product Description: Use the creative ideas in this book to put back the "fun" in language fundamentals! Your students will enjoy the humorous approach the author takes with topics such as: punctuation, nouns, homonyms, alliteration, sentences, vocabulary building and more...read more

Product Description: Prompts stimulate students' thinking. 18 lessons with 54 activities including finding the problem, producing alternatives, being original, being flexible, elaborating, fantasizing, putting ideas into context, using humor, looking at things from a different perspective and more.

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