Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Nonfiction >> Language Arts - Composition & Creative Writing

Helpful instruction and plenty of practice for your child to understand the basics of writing

Understanding writing is essential for your child to write with competence and clarity. Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Writing gives your child bite-sized explanations of this essential skill, with engaging exercises that keep her or him motivated and excited to learn. They can practice the writing skills that are challenging, polish skills they've mastered, and stretch themselves to explore skills they have not yet attempted. This title features 170 activities (plus answer...

It's no secret that many guys dread writing assignments. But writing doesn't have to be "boring nerd-work." Writing is about power; it's about fun; it's about spoofs, humor, sports, blood, farts, superheroes, giant monsters tearing down the city, and serious subjects, too. Ralph Fletcher, a guy writer himself and the author of forty-one books, discusses every tip needed to find the sweet spot in writing: the place where everything except the words stands still. With advice from favorite authors like Jon Scieszka, Jarrett Krosoczka, and Robert Lipsyte, this hands-on book will make a writer...

Writing development begins in infancy and continues through childhood. Handwriting and imagination is key to helping us store information, communicate to others, and plays a big part in educational development.

Writing and using your imagination enhances a greater love for reading and expands creativity. Learning to write fluidly promotes greater cognitive, linguistic, and motor expression, as well as builds self-esteem. Are you ready to have fun and explore? Grab your pencils, markers, and crayons, and come along on a magical journey filled with adventure creativity and...

Bestselling author of Ella Enchanted and fairy-tale master Gail Carson Levine helps you make magic with your writing

In Writing Magic, Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine shares her tricks of the trade. She shows how you can get terrific ideas for stories, invent great beginnings and endings, write sparkling dialogue, develop memorable characters--and much, much more. She advises you about what to do when you feel stuck--and how to use helpful criticism. Best of all, she offers writing exercises that will set your imagination on fire.

With humor, honesty,...