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| Author: Nancy Dean
Publisher: Maupin House Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $23.95
Buy New: $16.29
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 59114
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.7 x 0.4
ISBN: 0929895355
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.0420712
EAN: 9780929895352
Publication Date: April 2000
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| Customer Reviews:
 Wonderful highschool english activities to introduce students to Voice! August 26, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
My students love these activities. It allows them to view voice in other authors' works and then to create their own. Great resource!
Great book for HS English teachers! June 14, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Voice is perhaps the hardest of the 6 traits to teach. With my sophomore core English students, I would do 1 voice lesson each week for their warm up and it was amazing how much more accessible that vague idea of "voice" came to both myself and my students over the school year. The whole English department at my school uses Voice Lessons...9th grade teachers do a certain number, 10th grade, etc. By the time a student graduates, they will have done all the voice lessons. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to any English teacher or teacher who teaches writing (and which teachers don't?!).
You mean... writing can be FUN? August 7, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is an amazing find. Nancy Dean creates simple exercises that invite students to notice the craft behind all great writing. With intriguing quotes and delicious discussion starters, students cannot help but start to talk about word choice, sentence structure, tone, etc. Instead of force-feeding students with heavy terminology and rote memorization of how grammar works, Dean instead helps teachers create an environment in which those students ask for that same terminology in order to better express their thoughts. This book goes beyond forcing students to regurgitate dry terms by engaging students' innate abilities to critically assess what they read. A must have!
 Good Beginning! March 9, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is good for a class warmup. It probably could benefit from more indepth questions or more complex examples built on the
basic ones in the book, but it is very easy for the students to
comprehend. It might be a bit too basic for anything more than
grade level classes. The questions and answers are very obvious
for my Pre Ap students. I think it is a very good start!
Excellent resource for teaching voice January 6, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This title was recommended to me by our AP English teacher and she was right. A few simple lessons from each section and my high school students had a much better understanding of voice.
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