Jump In: A Workbook for Reluctant and Eager Writers (student workbook only)

Skills

• 1 PREWRITING SKILLS - Treading Water
• 2 Stop! Don't write yet!
• 3 Make it Easy on yourself
• 1 OPINIONS - What do you Think?
• 2 What about the Why?
• 3 A Good Order
• 4 The Body
• 5 Hello!
• 6 Goodbye!
• 7 An Interesting Friend
• 8 The Assignment (opinion)
• 1 PERSUASION BASICS - Words can be Powerful
• 2 What's it all About?
• 3 Gimme a good Reason
• 4 Order up!
• 5 Oh, yeah!
• 6 The bread for the sandwich
• 7 Does he make the grade?
• 8 Get out the hammer!
• 9 Persuasion Wrongs and Rights
• 10 The Assignment (persuasion basics)
• 1 PERSUASION CAUSE & EFFECT - You Push me and I Fall In!
• 2 What's your order?
• 3 A strong body
• 4 Head and Feet
• 5 Pass the Lemonade, please
• 6 The Assignment (persuasion cause and effect) #1
• 1 EXPOSITION BASICS - What?
• 2 Put me back together
• 3 From Broad to Narrow
• 4 What's the Big Idea?
• 5 But I Meant...
• 6 Gone Fishing!
• 7 Spreading the Net
• 8 Organize the Chaos, Part I
• 9 Organize the Chaos, Part II
• 10 The Spice of Life
• 11 A Hidden Treasure
• 12 Getting from Here to There
• 13 You may Quote me!
• 14 Head and Feet again
• 15 Questions and Answers
• 16 The Assignment (exposition basics)
• 1 EXPOSITION: BIOGRAPHY - It's all about - Who?
• 2 Let me count the Ways, part I
• 3 Let me count the Ways, part II
• 4 Ho-Hum
• 5 The Assignment (exposition biography)
• 1 EXPOSITION: A BOOK REPORT - I read it - Really!
• 2 Story Elements, continued
• 3 The Book and my Opinion of it
• 4 Making it easy
• 5 The actual Report
• 6 The Assignment (exposition book report)
• 1 EXPOSITION: A BOOK RESPONSE - What's This?
• 2 Some Examples
• 3 The Assignment (exposition book response)
• 1 EXPOSITION: A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE - Just the Facts, Ma'am
• 2 You're the Reporter
• 3 Under the Microscope
• 4 Big Deal!
• 5 Fill me In
• 6 No bibliography?
• 7 The Assignment (exposition newspaper article)
• 1 EXPOSITION: A HOW-TO - Do it This Way!
• 2 Give me some milk
• 3 Let me show How
• 4 The Essay Method (continued)
• 5 Where's the Instruction Manual?
• 6 The Assignment (exposition how-to)
• 1 EXPOSITION: COMPARE AND CONTRAST - What's the big deal?
• 2 Which is Better?
• 3 Imitate me
• 4 A pattern to follow
• 5 Cats & Dogs
• 6 A useful tool
• 7 The Assignment (Compare & Contrast)
• 1 EXPOSITION: A DESCRIPTION - That's short!
• 2 Canary? Peacock? Parrot?
• 3 Still one word
• 4 I'm Yawning
• 5 She sings Like a Bird!
• 6 A Word Picture
• 7 What's Out There?
• 8 A visitor
• 9 Not just a Box
• 10 Give me a direction
• 11 Who's That?
• 12 You won't believe what's In There?
• 13 Where are we?
• 14 Imitate me
• 15 Do it again
• 1 NARRATION - I can imagine it
• 2 Reel me in!
• 3 Here, Fishy, Fishy!
• 4 Change my world
• 5 What a character!
• 6 Howdy, Stranger
• 7 Your character's Character
• 8 It's all in your Point of View
• 9 I had the Strangest Dream!
• 10 But why?
• 11 I've got this Problem...
• 12 Talk, talk, Talk!
• 13 Their lips are moving, but...
• 14 A Cramped Conversation
• 15 And the Moral of the story is...
• 16 You can Lead a Horse to water...
• 17 They're Everywhere!
• 18 Open, Sesame!
• 19 It was a dark and Stormy night...
• 1 POETRY - Haiku
• 2 A Cinquain
• 3 A Diamante
• 4 Limericks
• 5 A Hymn
• 6 Copy Cat
• 7 O, say can you…What?