Student Booster: Writing Fiction, Grades 4 - 8


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Write on! Write with students in grades 4 and up using Student Booster: Writing Fiction. This 32-page book helps students create characters, settings, and plots; develop ideas; and write original fiction. Students practice brainstorming, writing and punctuating dialogue, and sequencing events. The book includes an end-of-book review and answer key.




Teaching Writing with Picture Books as Models


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Presents lessons designed to show teachers how to use picture books to teach writing skills to students in grades four through eight, and includes recommended reading lists.




Narrative Writing


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Contains mini-lessons, strategies, and activities designed to help grade school students learn to write narratives.




The Derby Daredevils: Kenzie Kickstarts a Team


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A highly illustrated middle-grade series that celebrates new friendships, first crushes, and getting out of your comfort zone—now in paperback Ever since they can remember, fifth graders Kenzie (aka Kenzilla) and Shelly (aka Bomb Shell) have dreamed of becoming roller derby superstars. When Austin’s city league introduces a brand-new junior league, the dynamic duo celebrates! But they’ll need to try out as a five-person team. Kenzie and Shelly have just one week to convince three other girls that roller derby is the coolest thing on wheels. But Kenzie starts to have second thoughts when Shelly starts acting like everyone’s best friend . . . Isn’t she supposed to be Kenzie’s best friend? And things get really awkward when Shelly recruits Kenzie’s neighbor (and secret crush!) for the team. With lots of humor and an authentic middle-grade voice, book one of this illustrated series follows Kenzie, Shelly, and the rest of the Derby Daredevils as they learn how to fall—and get back up again.




Writing about Reading


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Janet Angelillo introduces us to an entirely new way of thinking about writing about reading. She shows us how to teach students to manage all the thinking and questioning that precedes their putting pen to paper. More than that, she offers us smarter ways to have students write about their reading that can last them a lifetime. She demonstrates how students' responses to reading can start in a notebook, in conversation, or in a read aloud lead to thinking guided by literary criticism reflect deeper text analysis and honest writing processes result in a variety of popular genres--book reviews, author profiles, commentaries, editorials, and the literary essay. She even includes tools for teaching-day-by-day units of study, teaching points, a sample minilesson, and lots of student examples-plus chapters on yearlong planning and assessment. Ensure that your students will be readers and writers long after they leave you. Get them enthused and empowered to use whatever they read-facts, statistics, the latest book--as fuel for writing in school and in their working lives. Read Angelillo.




Horace & Bunwinkle


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The first in a young middle grade animal series in which an anxious Boston Terrier and an exuberant potbellied pig team up to solve crimes in their barnyard—from debut author PJ Gardner, with illustrations by David Mottram. Perfect for fans of the Mercy Watson series, The Trouble with Chickens, and A Boy Called Bat. Horace Homer Higgins III despises dirt. And the outdoors. And ducks. But when his person, Ellie, moves to a farm called the Homestead, the anxious Boston Terrier is forced to adapt. As if that isn’t enough to strain his nerves, Ellie adopts a perpetually cheerful potbellied pig named Bunwinkle to be his baby sister. Bunwinkle is delighted to be on the farm despite the stuffiness of her new canine brother. She’s sure she’ll crack his shell eventually—no one can resist her cuteness for long—especially once they bond over watching a TV pet-tective show. When the duo discovers that some neighborhood animals have been disappearing, they decide to use their new detective skills to team up to solve this barnyard mystery. Is it a mountain lion? Or their suspiciously shot-loving veterinarians? Only one thing seems certain: if they don’t figure it out soon, one of them might be next.




Hooked on Writing!


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Spectrum Writing, Grade 4


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Grade 4 Writing Workbook for kids ages 9-10 Support your child’s educational journey with the Spectrum Fourth Grade Writing Workbook that teaches basic handwriting skills to fourth graders. 4th grade writing books are a great way for students to learn basic writing skills such as writing stories, letters, opinions, and more through a variety of creative writing prompts and writing practice that are both fun AND educational! Why You’ll Love This 4th Grade Workbook Engaging and educational writing prompts. “Creating a character”, “Adding pictures to a story”, and “Giving instructions and directions” are a few of the fun kids writing activities that incorporate writing practice for kids into everyday settings to help inspire learning into your child’s curriculum. Testing progress along the way. Post-tests are included at the end of every chapter to test student knowledge. A writer’s handbook and answer key are included in the back of the 4th grade book to track your child’s progress along the way before moving on to new and exciting activities. Practically sized for every activity The 144-page writing activity book is sized at about 8 1⁄2 inches x 11 inches—giving your child plenty of space to complete each exercise. About Spectrum For more than 20 years, Spectrum has provided solutions for parents who want to help their children get ahead, and for teachers who want their students to meet and exceed set learning goals—providing workbooks that are a great resource for both homeschooling and classroom curriculum. The Kids Writing Book Contains: 4 chapters full of vibrant activities and illustrations End-of-chapter tests, an answer key, and writer’s handbook Perfectly sized at about 8 1⁄2” x 11”




Descriptive Writing


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Mini-lessons, strategies, and activities help students improve their descriptive writing skills.




Strategic Writing Mini-Lessons for All Students, Grades 4–8


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Power up writing instruction with short, differentiated lessons! The hard reality? By the time they reach middle school, many of our students still lack basic writing skills, and this may be one of their last opportunities to get up to speed before they reach high school. There′s no better resource for you to help them do so than Strategic Writing Mini-Lessons for All Students, Grades 4–8. Covering all four essential writing strategies—inventing, drafting, writing, and editing—these differentiated mini-lessons follow an easy-to-navigate, consistent structure, including: A schematic linking lessons to the grade-level goals of the Common Core Adaptations for struggling writers, English Language Learners, and even advanced writers with every lesson Support for different types of learners through use of color-coding techniques, charts, art, and other visual tools Specific guidance on developing your students′ confidence as writers and their ability to work independently Within no time, your students will write with a newfound competence and confidence, better equipped to meet the demands ahead of them. "This book is the most useful writing resource I have encountered in all my years of teaching. It is filled with practical strategies to produce writers with high-quality work product and high interest in the craft of writing." —Linda Sarver, Teacher Excelsior Springs, MO