- •Table of Contents
- •Healthy Scrambling
- •Chocolate Mashed Potatoes
- •Syllable Challenge
- •Help Hungry Henry’s
- •Don’t Knock It Until You Try It
- •Hunger
- •Beware of “Because”
- •Sizzling Synonyms
- •D-D-Doug’s D-D-Delight
- •Fixer Upper
- •Crazy Cornucopia
- •Write a Food Autobiography
- •Bits and Pieces
- •Copycats
- •Cool as a Cucumber
- •Dictionary Stew
- •More Dictionary Stew
- •Key Ingredients
- •Coffee or a Roller Coaster
- •Cafeteria
- •Cheesy Rhymes
- •Olivia’s Cafe
- •Overstuffed Sentences
- •In Common...Or Not
- •Sentimental Journey
- •Delicious and Disgusting
- •Appetizing Antonyms
- •Food to Write Home About
- •Realism Squad
- •Dinner Conversation
- •It’s All In Your Point of View
- •Super-Sized Food Challenge
- •Race of Tens #1
- •Race of Tens #2
- •Story Starters
- •Metaphors and Similes
- •Satisfyingly Sweet and Savory
- •Food Chain
- •Food Scramble
- •Something Fishy’s Going On
- •Sentence Combining
- •Dishing up the Internet
- •Where’s the Food?
- •Verbing Your Food
- •Alex Hated It
- •You Are What You Eat
- •The Food Battle
- •Adding Some Order
- •Audience, Audience, Audience
- •Alphabetically Speaking
- •Verbing
- •Foreshadowing
- •Red Herrings
- •Goldilocks For The 21st Century
- •Apostrophe-Itis
- •Daily Bread
- •Jell-O Sculpture Contest
- •Confusing the Customers
- •Supporting What You Say
- •Real Nice, Real Good
- •Personifying Food
- •A Spot of Plot
- •Getting Hyperbolic
- •Synopsis Time
- •Euphemistically Speaking
- •Pizza Monster
- •Food House
- •Pick One
- •Cliché
- •Watching a Character
- •Strain Your Brain #1
- •Strain Your Brain #2
- •Bare Bones
- •Compounds
- •In The News
- •Ms. Persnickety
- •Ms. Persnickety Needs Help
- •Ms. Persnickety Gets Testy
- •Delicious Dining Network
- •Topic and Subtopic Index
- •About the Author
- •More Great Books from Cottonwood Press
topic and subtopic index
Topics and subtopics covered in Language Is Served activities are listed below, along with the titles and page numbers of the associated activities.
Adjectives, 26 Alliteration, 15, 50 Antonyms, 35 Appositives, 21 Apostrophes, 70 Audience, 63
Avoiding passive sentences, 17 Character development, 57, 94 Clichés, 22, 93
Compound sentences, 98 Conjunctions, 26
Creative thinking, 27, 95,96
Description, 10, 11,14, 15, 18, 30, 34, 36, 37, 39, 49, 50, 57, 59, 63, 78, 79, 84, 86, 89, 90, 93, 94, 97, 105
Details, 30, 33, 34, 62, 78, 92, 97 Dialogue, 38
Dictionary use, 24, 25, 31, 72, 74 Euphemism, 88
Following directions, 40 Foreshadowing, 66, 67
Games, 28, 29, 32, 35, 40, 42, 46, 47, 51, 52, 56, 64, 71, 95, 96
Hyperbole, 86 Infinitive phrases, 21
Internet research, 11, 12, 40, 55 Interviewing, 8, 33 Metaphors, 49, 90
News writing, 54, 100 Nouns, 58, 98 Organization, 41
Paraphrasing, 80, 82 Participles, 21
Parts of speech, 26, 58 Personification, 83 Plot, 85
Poetry writing, 29 Point of view, 11, 39 Prepositions, 26 Pronouns, 26
Proofreading, 16, 68, 70, 102, 103, 104 Puns, 53
Quotation marks, 70 Red herrings, 67
Research, 11, 12, 40, 42, 55 Rhyming, 29
Sentence combining, 54 Sentence fragments, 13, 20
Sentence structure, 13, 17, 20, 21, 54 Sentence variety, 21, 54
Similes, 49, 90 Spelling, 7, 16, 68, 91 Story starters, 48, 85 Summarizing, 33, 81, 82
Supporting what you say, 12, 76 Synonyms, 14
Synopsis, 87
Transitions, 21, 60, 61, 62
Using vivid details, 10, 34, 37, 49, 57, 79, 84, 89, 94, 97
Verbs, 58, 65, 83, 98 Vocabulary, 14, 24, 25, 72, 74
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topic index, continued
Word choice, 78
Word games, 7, 9, 28, 32, 35, 46, 47, 51, 52, 56, 64, 71, 95, 96
Writing prompts, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 18, 19, 22, 29, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 48, 49, 50, 53, 57, 58, 59, 63, 64, 72, 74, 84, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 95, 100, 105
Writing with clarity, 30, 31, 62
About the Author
Cheryl Miller Thurston taught English and writing classes for more than 13 years, grades seven through university. She is the author of many plays, musicals, and books for teachers. She lives with her husband and two pampered cats in Colorado.