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Write All About It.
Leis and Chodos. New Readers Press, 159 pages.
Geared to the student who can read and write at a fifth grade level. Teaches writing skills using a newspaper style. Begins with a review of complete sentence construction, then addresses capital letters; punctuation; parts of speech; and techniques for effective writing, such as clarity, brevity, and the pyramid style of organizing information. A good presentation of the fundamentals of expository writing. Use it as a reference when approaching any of these topics.

The Remedial Writing Teacher's Handbook.
Hackett and Dalmas. Walch Publisher. 150 pages.
Very advanced writing exercises including sentence combining, sentence modeling, essays, letters, paragraphs, short stories, interviews, and poems. Part III of the book on "Other Competencies" deals with banking, applications, forms, and resumes.

Getting Started with Experience Stories.
Barosovska. New Readers Press, 31 pages.
Presents a collection of student-told experience stories as reading exercises for students and motivation to produce their own stories. Tells how to get a student's story on paper, then use it as a reading and spelling lesson. Book has six sections, each containing stories on a theme such as "children." There is space after each story for the student's own writing.

Easing into Essays:
Getting Ready to Write the GED Test Essay Teacher's Guide.
Phifer.
Reading level: (Challenger 5-8)
Describes the writing process presented in the students version of the book. Provides guidelines to help students learn the essay-writing process. Also includes some master pages which may be reproduced to use with students.

A Teacher's Resource: Writing Activities for Newspaper Readers. Gebhard.
(for the Tutor)
A manual for writing teachers which presents a process-oriented approach to utilizing current newspaper articles. It is organized into chapters based on "the three 'C's' of student success: confidence, control and competence." The first chapter focuses on conventions associated with writing and provides activities to help students master them and gain control. The third chapter deals with developing competence when composing material from scratch including understanding different types of writing, as well as generating, analyzing and organizing ideas. The final chapter integrates writing conventions and composition activities.

Using Language Experience with Adults: A Guide for Teachers.
Kennedy and Roeder.
(for the Tutor)
Describes the benefits of using the Language Experience Approach, I n which student-dictated material is used to teach reading and writing. Provides ideas for different methodologies and discusses their advantages and disadvantages, offers information on how Language Experience can complement other approaches and give some ideas for stimulating students' imaginations in order to encourage the communication of their thoughts and feelings. Examples of student writing are included.

Contemporary's The Write Stuff Instructor's Guide.
Frechette.
(for the tutor)
A guide for teachers who are using The Write Stuff series with their students. The introduction covers topics such as the beginning writer, writing as a process, strategies, procedures and techniques for teaching students to write as well as samples of student papers with teacher comments. It provides useful information for teachers and tutors, whether or not they are using the series. Other chapters provide ideas for using specific books in the series. An appendix discusses the evaluation of student writing. A list of suggested readings is also included.

Write Me a Note.
Lefkowitz. Fearon Education. 60 pages.
Book shows how to write different kinds of cards, notes, and letters as well as lists, notices, and announcements. Requires an advanced reading level. Great for use in class discussion or with tutor.