Writing Skills

This best-selling series provides 180 days of daily practice with lessons designed to immerse students in each subject, learn key skills, and form good habits. Teachers can easily incorporate these quick, diagnostic-based activities into their daily.…

This best-selling series provides 180 days of daily practice with lessons designed to immerse students in each subject, learn key skills, and form good habits. Teachers can easily incorporate these quick, diagnostic-based activities into their daily.…

Promote a "can do" attitude with inspiring activities that help students master that very important writing unit--the paragraph. Busy teachers appreciate the variety of activities, hands-on experiences, and independent learning opportunities presente…

The traits have revolutionized the way writing is taught. And nobody knows the traits better than Ruth Culham, who has written over 25 books and conducted countless workshops for teachers of all grades. Now, Ruth turns her expert eye to middle school…

Meet Stella, a precocious second grader whose adventures in writing class are sure to inspire students and motivate them to write across genres—whether it's narrative, informative, opinion, or poetry. A joyful peer model whom children can relate to,.…

Spark brainstorming and imagination with these Writing Prompt Cubes students can use in both creative storytelling and nonfiction writing activities. With different writing prompts on every side (36 prompts total), foam cubes offer a variety of ideas…

Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions, and Presentation. Look at good writing in any genre, and you'll find these traits. Think of them as the fuel that stokes the engine of writing. With this book, teachers will lear…

Renowned literacy expert Stephanie Harvey teams up with authors/writing consultants Sara Holbrook and Michael Salinger to introduce writing frameworks—short writing scaffolds to support student writing. This innovative writing tool gets strivers enga…

Why has the 6+1 TRAIT model had such a tremendous impact on writing instruction? Because it works. It allows teachers to pinpoint students’ strengths and weaknesses in ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and...

Teach students to ACE their responses with this collection of mini-lessons that guides them to utilize their own knowledge to construct clear, cohesive comments. ACE is an acronym for “Answer the question, Cite evidence, and Elaborate.” At the heart …

Help your students turn simple sentences into super sentences! Writing forms, writing-center activities, and a trait-based writing guide help you provide students with structured and motivating writing practice. Establish a strong foundation of buil…

Provide your students with creative yet structured practice in writing narrative, descriptive, how-to, and compare/contrast paragraphs. Resources include: writing forms, graphic organizers, a trait-based writing guide, and more! Get students to love…