Cardona, Tarquin

Takes viewers through each step in the creation of a children's book, visiting writers, illustrators, editors, and printers, showing how they do their jobs, and demonstrating the important role each plays in the process.

Demonstrates the importance of editing and proofreading in all types of writing, following students as they check grammar and punctuation, including run-on sentences, fragments, subject-verb and noun-pronoun agreement, misplaced modifiers, and comma splices.

Explores the structure and techniques of expository writing from composing the introduction and thesis to writing an effective conclusion.

Identifies the characteristics of different types of writing through a look at the efforts of the student editors of "Wordswork" to meet Professor Plot's challenge to showcase four different types of writing in the magazine, including comparative, personal narrative, explanatory, and persuasive.

Introduces the four types of sentences: statements, questions, commands, and exclamations; explains how to distinguish a complete sentence from an incomplete one; and includes a word game for review.

Describes the tools and strategies of writing effective creative and narrative stories.

The student editors at "Wordswork" literary magazine set out to identify resources that will help them become better writers.

Viewers follow staff members on the student literary magazine "Wordsworth," as they attempt to understand the proper use of commas, periods, quotation marks, and other punctuation.

Viewers join a group of students as they work to create a literary magazine, learning about adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and prepositional phrases along the way.

Follows the student editors of the "Wordswork" literary magazine as they learn the rules for changing the tense of action words, place them in the past, present, and future tense, and use simple tests to tell if a word is really a verb.