composition (language arts)

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 Native American 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.

". . . explores the power of stories to heal children from troubled backgrounds and offers .. . strategies for helping students discover and write about their own stories of strength and survival . . ."--Back cover.

In this engaging collection, teacher Dave Leochko shares his favorite writing lessons. These classroom-tested mini-lessons take young writers through all the steps of the writing process and pinpoint key topics such as leads, sentence structure, plots, punctuation and more.

Examines how to write an effective expository essay, including the importance of presenting main ideas, supporting details, and developing a solid conclusion based on facts.