Students become better writers when they have the techniques at their fingertips. With this book, you'll have the ready-to-go mini-lessons and follow-up practice sheets that target the writing skills students need most. Combine sentences, cut out clutter, remedy run-ons, show-don't-tell, doctoring dialogue, punching up passive sentences, and more! Fully reproducible! Perfect for daily quick-writes! For use with Grades 4 & Up.

Reproducible pages contain lessons such as finding an idea to write about, creating vivid descriptions with sensory details, developing compelling openings, revising, and editing.

Engaging lessons with planning sheets and evaluation checklists to help students master the essentials of a short, focused writing assignment.

Help students gain writing confidence with this comprehensive collection of easy, super-engaging lessons that invite them to describe a dream, write a mystery story, create a movie review, compose a business letter, and so many more! Everything you need is here: Complete how-to's, quick mini-lessons, pre-writing graphic organizers, and reproducible assessment forms. A great way to prepare kids to shine on the standardized tests! For use with Grades 3-6.

Setting Pop-ups, Paper-Chain Characters, Plot Mini-Books, and more to help students "learn by doing." Includes reproducible student direction sheets and rubrics.