composition and exercises

Provides study tools for preparing to take the Advanced Placement English Literature & Composition exam, including a study plan, test-taking strategies, review questions, and three practice exams with explained answers.

A guide to preparing for the Advanced Placement exam in English literature and composition, featuring a comprehensive content review, test-taking strategies, full-length practice tests with answers, and more.

A beginning writer's guide that includes tips and tricks for writing a how-to.

Contains forty ready-to-use lessons and activities for interactive whiteboards designed to help students in grades three through six improve their expository writing skills.

Contains lessons for the SMART Board designed to help students in grades four to six master skills in grammar, spelling, word choice, summarizing, and other reading and writing tasks, and includes activities on CD.

Readings, activities, and writing prompts help students in grade nine learn about the use of language.

A beginning writer's guide that includes tips and tricks for writing a hand written letter.

Discover ways of brainstorming ideas for a comic book story, how to outline a plot using a three-act organizational structure, how to incorporate dialogue and descriptions, and how to write clear and detailed instructions for an artist to draw the accompanying illustrations.

Provides practice in writing informative prose -- from the use of descriptive, directional, and time-sequence words to the organization of ideas into sentences and paragraphs.

Offers advice to young students on how to write a thank you letter, explaining why it is important, and provides examples for different occasions.