Updated edition covers the new Standards of Learning introduced in 2017! This workbook provides extensive guided practice with a complete range of writing tasks. Students will write in response to passages, as well as produce narrative, descriptive, persuasive, and expository writing. This workbook will develop the writing skills that students need, while helping to prepare students for the SOL Writing tests and the SOL Reading tests. 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 narrative, descriptive, persuasive, or expository text - 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 skills Full Coverage of the New Standards of Learning - Covers all the types of writing in the state standards - Includes exercises for additional writing skills, including completing research projects and gathering information from sources - Provides extensive practice writing in response to fictional and nonfiction texts Preparation for the SOL Writing and SOL Reading tests - Helps students gain the skills and experience needed for the tests - Provides practice with narrative and expository writing prompts like those found on the tests - Tips, planning, and review activities teach the key features expected of student writing - Develops the strong reading skills needed for the SOL Reading test - Rigorous tasks encourage deeper understanding and advanced thinking

Covers the New Standards of Learning Introduced in 2017! This workbook provides extensive guided practice with a complete range of writing tasks. Students will write in response to passages, as well as produce narrative, descriptive, opinion, and expository writing. This workbook will develop the writing skills that students need, while helping to prepare students for the SOL Writing tests and the SOL Reading tests. 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 narrative, descriptive, opinion, or expository text - 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 skills Full Coverage of the New Standards of Learning - Covers all the types of writing in the state standards - Includes exercises for additional writing skills, including completing research projects and gathering information from sources - Provides extensive practice writing in response to fictional and nonfiction texts Preparation for the SOL Writing and SOL Reading tests - Helps students gain the skills and experience needed for the tests - Provides practice with narrative and expository writing prompts like those found on the tests - Tips, planning, and review activities teach the key features expected of student writing - Develops the strong reading skills needed for the SOL Reading test - Rigorous tasks encourage deeper understanding and advanced thinking

Updated edition covers the new Standards of Learning introduced in 2017! This workbook provides extensive guided practice with a complete range of writing tasks. Students will write in response to passages, as well as produce narrative, reflective, persuasive, and expository writing. This workbook will develop the writing skills that students need, while helping to prepare students for the SOL Writing tests and the SOL Reading tests. 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 narrative, reflective, persuasive, or expository text - 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 skills Full Coverage of the New Standards of Learning - Covers all the types of writing in the state standards - Includes exercises for additional writing skills, including completing research projects and gathering information from sources - Provides extensive practice writing in response to fictional and nonfiction texts Preparation for the SOL Writing and SOL Reading tests - Helps students gain the skills and experience needed for the tests - Provides practice with persuasive and expository writing prompts like those found on the tests - Tips, planning, and review activities teach the key features expected of student writing - Develops the strong reading skills needed for the SOL Reading test - Rigorous tasks encourage deeper understanding and advanced thinking

Updated edition covers the new Standards of Learning introduced in 2017! This workbook provides extensive guided practice with a complete range of writing tasks. Students will write in response to passages, as well as produce narrative, reflective, persuasive, and expository writing. This workbook will develop the writing skills that students need, while helping to prepare students for the SOL Writing tests and the SOL Reading tests. 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 narrative, reflective, persuasive, or expository text - 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 skills Full Coverage of the New Standards of Learning - Covers all the types of writing in the state standards - Includes exercises for additional writing skills, including completing research projects and gathering information from sources - Provides extensive practice writing in response to fictional and nonfiction texts Preparation for the SOL Writing and SOL Reading tests - Helps students gain the skills and experience needed for the tests - Provides practice with persuasive and expository writing prompts like those found on the tests - Tips, planning, and review activities teach the key features expected of student writing - Develops the strong reading skills needed for the SOL Reading test - Rigorous tasks encourage deeper understanding and advanced thinking

Updated edition covers the new Standards of Learning introduced in 2017! This workbook provides extensive guided practice with a complete range of writing tasks. Students will write in response to passages, as well as produce narrative, descriptive, opinion, and expository writing. This workbook will develop the writing skills that students need, while helping to prepare students for the SOL Writing tests and the SOL Reading tests. 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 narrative, descriptive, opinion, or expository text - 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 skills Full Coverage of the New Standards of Learning - Covers all the types of writing in the state standards - Includes exercises for additional writing skills, including completing research projects and gathering information from sources - Provides extensive practice writing in response to fictional and nonfiction texts Preparation for the SOL Writing and SOL Reading tests - Helps students gain the skills and experience needed for the tests - Provides practice with narrative and expository writing prompts like those found on the tests - Tips, planning, and review activities teach the key features expected of student writing - Develops the strong reading skills needed for the SOL Reading test - Rigorous tasks encourage deeper understanding and advanced thinking

Updated edition covers the new Standards of Learning introduced in 2017! This workbook provides extensive guided practice with a complete range of writing tasks. Students will write in response to passages, as well as produce narrative, descriptive, opinion, and expository writing. This workbook will develop the writing skills that students need, while helping to prepare students for the SOL Writing tests and the SOL Reading tests. 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 narrative, descriptive, opinion, or expository text - 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 skills Full Coverage of the New Standards of Learning - Covers all the types of writing in the state standards - Includes exercises for additional writing skills, including completing research projects and gathering information from sources - Provides extensive practice writing in response to fictional and nonfiction texts Preparation for the SOL Writing and SOL Reading tests - Helps students gain the skills and experience needed for the tests - Provides practice with narrative and expository writing prompts like those found on the tests - Tips, planning, and review activities teach the key features expected of student writing - Develops the strong reading skills needed for the SOL Reading test - Rigorous tasks encourage deeper understanding and advanced thinking

This guided workbook will develop all the skills needed for effective persuasive writing and give students practice creating a wide range of opinion pieces. The first section contains sets of exercises and writing prompts that will develop key persuasive writing skills. The second section gives students practice applying the skills by writing a wide range of opinion pieces. Section 1: Developing Persuasive Writing Skills - 11 sets of exercises and writing prompts develop all the key skills required - focused sets develop key persuasive writing skills one by one - each set introduces the skill, guides students to complete a task, and then provides independent practice - additional warm-up exercises teach key persuasive writing skills - guided tasks and planning activities teach how to produce effective writing Section 2: Applying Persuasive Writing Skills - 10 sets of writing prompts allow students to apply persuasive writing skills - each set focuses on one style or one genre of persuasive writing - includes practice for opinion essays, letters and letters to the editor, reviews, research-based essays, and promotional texts - includes practice writing opinions in response to fictional and nonfiction texts Key Benefits - develops the persuasive writing skills described in the state standards - focusing on each skill one by one encourages strong skill development - students apply skills by writing complete texts in different styles and genres - examples, guided tasks, and hints guide students through the tasks - planning activities help students learn the process for creating focused, well-organized, and effective opinion pieces