The purpose of this activity is to raise students' awareness of the advantages of a good title for stories, essays, and reports. They will compose titles for a variety of materials.
Composing Great Titles
Excerpted from
Time to Write
This book is filled with standards-based activities for developing students' creative writing skills. Time to Write provides creative writing inspiration and practice, and includes teacher notes and student warm-up activities.
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