These engaging writing activities will introduce and develop essential persuasive writing skills! This workbook contains 50 guided 2-page exercises where students decide on the best and worst features of a person, place, event, activity, or situation. Each activity asks students to list three positive and three negative aspects of the given topic. Students then choose the best and the worst aspect and write a short paragraph explaining the choice. Each topic also includes a full-length writing task where students use the three good points or the three bad points as supporting ideas for a complete opinion piece. Key Benefits - Introduces and develops strong persuasive writing skills - Simple, straightforward, and engaging activities give students ongoing practice - Students have extensive practice brainstorming and listing reasons and supporting ideas - Encourages students to produce well-organized full-length opinion pieces - Includes full-length writing tasks for opinion pieces, essays, letters, articles, and flyers - Format allows for review and feedback as the student progresses - Encourages critical thinking by having students think of pros and cons for a wide range of topics Develops the Persuasive Writing Skills Listed in Arizona

These engaging writing activities will introduce and develop essential persuasive writing skills! This workbook contains 50 guided 2-page exercises where students decide on the best and worst features of a person, place, event, activity, or situation. Each activity asks students to list three positive and three negative aspects of the given topic. Students then choose the best and the worst aspect and write a short paragraph explaining the choice. Each topic also includes a full-length writing task where students use the three good points or the three bad points as supporting ideas for a complete opinion piece. Key Benefits - Introduces and develops strong persuasive writing skills - Simple, straightforward, and engaging activities give students ongoing practice - Students have extensive practice brainstorming and listing reasons and supporting ideas - Encourages students to produce well-organized full-length opinion pieces - Includes full-length writing tasks for opinion pieces, essays, letters, articles, and flyers - Format allows for review and feedback as the student progresses - Encourages critical thinking by having students think of pros and cons for a wide range of topics Develops the Persuasive Writing Skills Listed in the Indiana Academic Standards - Forming and clearly stating an opinion - Brainstorming reasons and selecting the strongest reasons - Supporting a point of view with reasons - Using details and examples to support ideas - Producing focused and organized opinion pieces - Structuring opinion pieces based on supporting ideas

Prepares students for the CMAS English Language Arts Assessments! This workbook provides extensive guided practice with a complete range of writing tasks, and will prepare students for the more rigorous reading and writing tasks on the CMAS ELA tests. This workbook covers the new 2020 Colorado Academic Standards first tested in 2020/2021. Students will write in response to passages, as well as write narratives, opinion pieces, and essays. Students will also gain experience completing research projects and editing and revising their work. Provides Ongoing Skill Development and Practice - Ten convenient practice sets allow for ongoing skill development - Each practice set contains two reading comprehension tasks where students write in response to passages - Each practice set contains two writing tasks where students write a short story, personal narrative, opinion piece, or essay - Guided writing tasks include hints, planning activities, and review checklists to guide students and encourage strong skill development - Each set includes additional core skills exercises that focus on key writing skills Preparation for Colorado's English Language Arts Assessments - Provides extensive experience providing written answers to reading comprehension questions - Guided tasks teach students how to write effective essays, opinion pieces, and narratives - Builds higher-order thinking skills such as analyzing and evaluating texts - Develops the strong reading comprehension skills needed for the new assessments - Provides the skills and experience needed for the CMAS writing tasks Key Benefits of this Workbook - Flexible format allows practice sets to be completed to suit any schedule - Helps students transition to the more rigorous CMAS assessments - Develops all the writing skills described in the state standards - More rigorous tasks encourage deeper understanding and more advanced thinking - Tips, planning, and review activities teach the key features expected of student writing - Format allows for review after each set to provide feedback and promote improvement

180 Days of Writing is an easy-to-use resource that provides fifth-grade students with practice in writing argument/opinion, informative/explanatory, and narratives pieces while also strengthening their language and grammar skills. Centered on high-interest themes, each two-week unit is aligned to one writing standard. Students interact with mentor texts during the first week and then apply their learning the next week by practicing the steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Daily practice pages make activities easy to prepare and implement as part of a classroom morning routine, at the beginning of each writing lesson, or as homework. Genre-specific rubrics and data-analysis tools provide authentic assessments that help teachers differentiate instruction. Develop enthusiastic and efficient writers through these standards-based activities correlated to College and Career Readiness and other state standards.

Matches the New Standards and Prepares Students for the 2018-2019 AzMERIT ELA Tests! This book will develop the reading skills that students need, while preparing students for the reading sections of the AzMERIT English Language Arts tests. It offers a simple and convenient system for ongoing reading comprehension practice, while being focused on developing strong reading skills. Skill Development Made Simple - Provides 48 passages with questions divided into convenient sets - Includes sets for literary texts, informational texts, and paired passages - Updated edition includes a wider variety of informational texts including advertisements, flyers, reviews, and instructional texts - Short passages and question sets allow for easy 20-minute practice sessions - Develops and builds on all the reading skills needed - Easily integrates with student learning throughout the year Preparation for the AzMERIT ELA Tests - Covers the reading skills that are tested on the AzMERIT assessments - Covers the new English Language Arts standards first assessed in 2019 - Strong skill development prepares students for more rigorous assessments - Students gain experience understanding, analyzing, and responding to passages - Provides practice completing selected-response, constructed-response, and technology-enhanced questions - Also includes questions and exercises covering text-based writing Key Benefits of this Book - Short passages and question sets build confidence - Ongoing practice develops strong reading comprehension skills - Reduces test anxiety by allowing low-stress practice - Allows for convenient revision and practice as the student learns - Provides experience with a range of passage types - Develops the skills students need to perform well on assessments