composition and exercises

Presents activities and practice drills to help students build their writing skills and learn how to revise and edit what they have written, make good word choices, and explore new writing techniques.

A guide to planning and teaching an effective writing workshop that provides management techniques, reproducible worksheets, teaching tips, and one hundred mini-lessons focusing on special skills and topics.

Presents a list of seven thousand topics appropriate for high school writing projects, grouped by category of writing.

Examines forms and methods of developing eighteen different types of themes and provides sample themes which are analyzed for strengths and weaknesses.

Presents lessons and examples on good grammar, covering parts of speech; simple, compound, and complex sentences; punctuation; and proofreading; and includes a directory of common mistakes, a glossary, and a further reading guide.

A guide to writing prose, both fiction and nonfiction, and poetry.

Discusses the differences between spoken and written English and suggests ways of improving the latter from the middle grades upward.

An introduction to writing discussing such aspects as how to get ideas as well as how to work from sentence to paragraph to finished story or essay.

Contains visual images to be used as writing prompts. Topics range from special effects to sprots bloopers.