The Writers Handbook, from the editors of Time For Kids magazine, is packed with writing ideas, examples, rules, and tips that kids ages 8 to 12 need to be successful writers for homework and essays.A fun and easy-to-use handbook, every child will benefit from using the Writers Handbook from the pros at Time For Kids.

"Includes practice for standardized tests."--Cover

"A little cement mixer learns that making mistakes isn't always a bad thing"--

If you're reading this, you're probably a writer, or you aspire to be one. So where do you start? How do you navigate this craft and find your place in it? What's the best way to turn your thoughts and ideas into words, paragraphs, and pages? Ready, Set, Write will show you what you can write and how you can write it. You'll explore various forms of creative writing, answer questions that deepen your understanding of the craft, and stretch your author muscles as you create and polish new and original works. You'll learn how to stay motivated and inspired, and you'll put together your own writer's tool kit packed with everything you need to do your work. Plus, you'll get tons of writing tips to help you write more and write better. Created for hobbyists and aspiring professionals alike, Ready, Set, Write is structured to be used by individuals or in the classroom. Ideal for young and new writers, it also works as a refresher for seasoned scribes. Are you ready to start your writing adventure? Ready, Set, Write: A Guide to Creative Writing will show you the way.

Features an audio read-along! With a simple, witty story and free-spirited illustrations, Peter H. Reynolds entices even the stubbornly uncreative among us to make a mark -- and follow where it takes us. Her teacher smiled. "Just make a mark and see where it takes you." Art class is over, but Vashti is sitting glued to her chair in front of a blank piece of paper. The words of her teacher are a gentle invitation to express herself. But Vashti can’t draw - she’s no artist. To prove her point, Vashti jabs at a blank sheet of paper to make an unremarkable and angry mark. "There!" she says. That one little dot marks the beginning of Vashti’s journey of surprise and self-discovery. That special moment is the core of Peter H. Reynolds’s delicate fable about the creative spirit in all of us.

Every once in while, a work comes along that breaks through convention and fuses worlds and cultures. The Serpent and the Jaguar is one such work: it transcends the conventional interpretations of the Mayan Tzolk’in calendar and fuses the worlds of traditional Mayan cosmovision, scholarly research, and modern-day needs and concerns. The result is a book that enables virtually anyone anywhere in the world living in industrialized society to apply the Tzolk’in to their lives on a daily basis. For the first time, The Serpent and the Jaguar brings you the Tzolk’in and all of its 260 days interpreted in the context of modern life and modern challenges. The book is the cornerstone in a suite of related tools that include mobile applications, webinars and a strong social media platform designed to help you redefine your relationship with sacred, cyclical time in the face of our demanding, stressful schedules that force us to operate on linear time. Included in the book are: • The full set of the 260 Energies of the Day of the Tzolk’in calendar. • Detailed descriptions of the 20 trecenas and their ruling day signs. • Detailed descriptions of the 13 numbers. • Introductory sections on the Mayan Calendar, the day signs, trecenas, and the numbers. • A guide to living with sacred time • Mayan Calendar tables to calculate dates manually or offline. • Original day sign illustrations by New Zealand painter and artist Maree Gifkins (along with the traditional Maya day sign and number glyphs).

"Learn how to make your writing better and more interesting."--Provided by publisher.