composition and exercises

Presents a comprehensive six-trait approach to teaching writing to kindergarten through third grade students and includes lesson plans and writing models, classroom assessments, and recommended reading for students.

Discusses the importance of keeping a notebook for writers, looking at how writers use their journals to record selected insights, lines, images, ideas, dreams, and fragments of conversation; and considering the notebook as a source of original writing.

Contains thirty-eight essays, including persuasive, informative, literary, personal and illustrated essays, written by popular authors that were given a writing prompt on a variety of subjects, such as, the merits of having a tail, time machines, space colonization, superpowers, and more.

Provides examples, models, and advice for writing letters to friends, relatives, and businesses, or for preparing school reports.

Presents a step-by-step "recipe" for writing stories, discussing brainstorming, basic ingredients, special flavorings, characters, spicy settings, stirring, cooking, taste testing, and other topics.