composition (language arts)

Marko the Pencil improves writing skills with strategies for developing a hook, organizing sentences, using transitional phrases, writing dialogue, and much more. Also covers proofreading and multiple-choice tests.

Presents ten vignettes with strange and evocative endings designed to invite analysis and speculation through discussion. Includes point of view discussion question, improvisation/role play variations, writing suggestions and student comments.

Gives the teacher insight to help young children learn how to write to allow creativity and personal expression.

Provides writing advice, ideas, and activities to inspire teenage and younger writers that covers stories, letters, poetry, book reviews, news articles, and more; and features step-by-step instructions for writing prompts and exercises, poetry forms, and more.

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.

Contains lesson plans, reproducibles, and display and publishing ideas to implement meaningful, fun-filled student writing experiences.

Presents fifty reproducible story prompts for students in grades two through four, each with an illustration and lines for writing.

Reviews reading and writing techniques and the types of reading selections on the test, and provides test taking-strategies, practice questions, and two full-length practice exams.