History meets humor in 12 tremendous tall-tale hero stories!

Provides fresh, new graphic organizers to help students read, write, and comprehend content area materials. Helps students organize and retain information.

In this collection of engaging mini-lessons and companion reproducible pages, teacher Dave Leochko shares his favorite writing lessons--ones that have really helped his students become better writers. The classroom-tested lessons in this book take young writers through all the steps of the writing process, including getting an idea, revising a story, and conferencing with other writers, while also targeting specific skills, such as using punctuation correctly, varying sentence structure, making characters believable, and developing a plot. The reproducible pages feature activities that let students apply new skills, as well as writing tips and strategies they can collect and use a reference. For use with Grades 4-8.

Eight short plays for grades 3-5, with writing prompts and activities that link to language arts, social studies, etc.

Teaches how to develop a plot, setting, and characters, use details, and more.