composition (language arts)

Uses information and pictures related to American immigrants and settlers to help children learn how to write interesting and effective persuasive paragraphs, with activities, charts, and vocabulary exercises offering more information on the paragraph writing process.

Photographs and information related to the lives of folk heroes help students learn how to write interesting and effective narrative paragraphs, with activities, charts, and vocabulary exercises designed to help students master every step of the paragraph-writing process.

Pictures and easy-to-follow text help students write interesting and effective expository paragraphs about NativeAmerican art and culture, with an overview of each step in the paragraph-writing process as well as activities, charts, and vocabulary exercises.

Offers a brief introduction to writing descriptive paragraphs, with tips on using adjectives and other parts of speech to describe persons, places, or things.

A guide to writing, covering how to brainstorm ideas, organize ideas, plan a draft, and edit your work.

Provides daily lessons, monthly units, and resources for a year-long, fourth grade reading and writing curriculum; and includes a DVD.

Explores the structure and techniques of writing both formal and informal essays including business letters, memos, and resumes.

A trait-based teaching resource, presenting examples of middle school student writing, ranging from high to low, that reflects each of six traits, including ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions, and including interactive PDFs on CD.

Explains a trait-based teaching strategy to help kindergarten through second-grade students improve their writing skills, providing examples of student writing, group model lessons, instructions for interactive whiteboard activities, and tips for conferences. Includes a CD-ROM with twelve interactive PDF files, thirty PDF files of student writing samples, trait scoring guides, and other resources.