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Word Choice
Lessons to Teach Kids how to Choose Effective, Engaging Words
Writing A-Z Word Choice Skill Lessons improve students' writing to make it more interesting and precise.
Writers repeatedly use the same words or do not choose the most creative or effective words in their
first drafts to convey their message to an audience. Writing A-Z's Word Choice Skill Lessons give
students strategies to improve word choice, such as using a thesaurus.
Strong word choice results in writers creating pictures in the minds of readers when they tell a story.
Carefully considered words also clarify ideas or topics in expository writing and can move readers to
action in persuasive writing.
How to Use Word Choice Lessons
A common lesson plan includes leveled tips that tell what to expect from different levels of writers—beginning,
early developing, developing, and fluent.
You can use the same instructional plan and provide differentiation through student resources. Student
resources are provided at two levels: primary (for beginning and early developing writers) and
intermediate (for developing and fluent writers).
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Primary
primary (grades 1–2) skill lesson and materials that teach students how to use a thesaurus to help them make their word choice more interesting and precise
intermediate (grades 3 and above) skill lesson and materials that teach students how to use a thesaurus to help them make their word choice more interesting and precise