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Want to keep the range of your students' writing skills fresh?  A great way to accomplish this is to use our "Daily Quick Writes" - short focused writing activities to review and reinforce skills you've taught.  Place a short revision exercise on the board each morning for a before school warm-up, send it along for homework, or place a number of "Quick Writes" at a class writing station.  For ease of use we've divided these exercises into the following categories:

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Vocabulary/Word Choice
Parts of Speech
Mechanics, Punctuation, Editing
Sentence Construction/Revision
Narrative Writers' Craft
Expository Writers' Craft
Figurative Language
Taking Notes
Letter Writing
Point of View/Tense

Quick Writes - 2009-2010

Want to keep the range of your students’ writing skills fresh? A great way to accomplish this is to use our daily "Quick Writes” – a short, focused writing lesson to apply and practice skills you’ve taught. Place the “Quick Writes” on the board each morning for a before school writing ...