composition (language arts)

Contains exercises for teaching writing in the Grade 1 classroom.

An introduction to writing essays.

Provides an introduction to procedural texts and offers tips for writing a recipe and about how something happens.

Provides an introduction to opinion pieces and offers tips for writing in different voices and understanding the audience.

Gives advice on writing a nonfiction narrative.

The R.A.F.T.S. technique provides students with the baseline information they need to focus their writing: a Role from which to write, an Audience to address, a Format in which to write, a Topic about which to write and a Strong verb that suggests the purpose of the writing.

Presents nearly two hundred reproducible revision tools for teachers of writing in grades 2-12, suitable for classroom use or teacher workshops, and provides Spanish translations of more than twenty pages.