Every worksheet in Writing Tricks is designed to teach your students important language skills while encouraging them to apply these skills within their writing. Once your students have mastered each trick, they will have a powerful skill that they will use for the rest of their lives. How It Works: 1. Teach the writing trick using the worksheets. 2. MAKE the students use the writing trick immediately within a paragraph or story. 3. Require students to practice the writing tricks for journal time, homework, or future assignments. 4. When students revise their writing, they have sixteen...

This book spells out a home school teacher's writing plan from Grades 3 through 12. It includes fifteen steps to produce outstanding writers. The pacing guide allows teachers to begin at any grade and complete the process by the time their students take the college writing exams in high school. Some lesson plans are included and others are recommended. If this book is used with the CreateBetterWriters.com curriculum, the teacher will have a powerful, step-by-step program for writing instruction that can be used for all students simultaneously. Ten years of powerful curriculum for all your...

The Complete Writing Program is a workshop in a book. At the very least, it will show you, step-by-step, how to build stronger, more confident writers one day at a time. At its best, it will help you build an army of great writers within your class who will help you with your goal: building great writers. Have you ever taught your class how to write an essay/story; spent hours reading and editing every one; gave the students constructive feedback; then have your students revise, edit and publish it? If you have, you know that it can be incredibly time consuming. Serious, meaningful...

How To Teach The Five Paragraph Essay contains a step-by-step plan for teaching the five-paragraph essay. Teachers will be able to show their students how a simple outline will help students master one of the most important skills a student can acquire. The format of this book leaves nothing to chance. The teacher is given everything needed to help students master essay writing. Students will be able to organize their ideas, then format and write a five paragraph essay in about an hour. Every student will be prepared for any class, district, or state writing test.