Real Stories: The All-Inclusive Textbook for Developmental Writing and Reading

by Toni Ortner

Overview

Real Stories is a writing and reading text that works. The method Toni Ortner discusses is classroom-tested and designed to meet the needs of multi-cultural high school students. It contains three sections: “The Process of Writing” covers the basic building blocks of writing. “Time Savers for Grammar and Punctuation” includes types of sentences, how to find and eliminate runs-ons, comma splices and fragments, comma use, nouns, capitalization, direct quotes, verb tenses, and irregular verbs, practice exercises, an answer key, and tests. “The Reader” contains students’ personal stories for analysis and discussion. Real Stories helps students use words to empower and enrich their lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781504028981
Publisher:	Open Road Distribution
Publication date:	02/02/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	362
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Toni Ortner has taught for more than forty years in high schools and colleges in the New York metropolitan area. Her unique instructional methods and techniques have proven remarkably effective in improving the writing skills of multi-cultural students. She teaches in the English Department at the University of Connecticut in Stamford as well as Norwalk Community College. In addition to her career as an educator, she is a well-known poet whose books are sold both online as well as in bookstores. Go to www.toniortner.com for additional information.