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W RITE O N ! L ESSONS FOR NEO
Write On! for NEO provides hundreds of writing exercises, literacy skills
activities, and vocabulary strategies that teachers can use to help students
develop their writing skills. You can easily send these exercises to students’
NEOs using NEO Manager (see page 69). Students work on the exercises on
their NEOs, typing their responses between angle bracket prompts < >. Once
the exercises are complete, you retrieve the exercises from the NEOs using
NEO Manager.
Using thoughtful themes and appealing content, Write On! for NEO exercises
promote writing and foster a love of language. Write On! exercises help you
avoid the blank screens that can be so intimidating to students at the
beginning of writing projects. Instead, the exercises provide screen after
screen of entertaining writing activities that engage students’ minds and
inspire creative responses.
Write On! files are organized by school level and type of activity. Writing
lessons are organized by process and theme. For a list of the school levels,
themes, and exercise files, see page 249. For an overview of the categories and
themes, see page 257.
Using Write On! Lessons with NEO 2s in NEO Share
You can also open Write On! lessons in NEO Share and make entire lessons or
parts of lessons available for NEO 2 users to pick up. This is an easy way to
use Write On! lessons with NEO 2s. For more information, click the Help
menu in NEO Share and choose Using Write On! Lessons.
How to Use Write On! Lessons in NEO Manager for All
NEOs
The steps below give you an overview of how to use Write On! exercises with
NEOs and NEO Manager.
1. Make sure you have installed NEO Manager on your computer (see
page 13).
2. Use the supplements summary (page 257) to find a theme that you want
your students to work with.
You can also Write
On! lessons to NEO
2s using NEO Share.
For more information, see the
NEO Share User Manual.