Overview - HOW TO SERIES - HOW TO WRITE A SIMPLE REPORT
Students learn the basics and have fun at the same time with the lively How To Series that features eight areas of writing fundamentals. Written for regular elementary Grades 1-3, the books can be modified to various abilities. The series helps students to become confident and capable writers. Books are available separately by topic or as an eight-book set.
How to Write a Sentence
The 48-page reproducible book teaches students the basics of sentence writing in an effective and memorable fashion. The first section-Presenting the Sentence-provides a foundation for the activities in the sections that follow:
• Bigger and Better Sentences
• Polishing Your Sentences
• What's It About?
• What Happens?
• It Couldn't Happen Without a Verb
• Describe It!
• Sentence Fun!
Sample activities: Stop that Run-On Sentence!, Which Is Which?, Take a Breath, Make Your Sentences Come Alive, Your Turn to Add the Predicate, and more.
How to Write a Paragraph
The 48-page reproducible book teaches students how to write a clear and well-organized paragraph-the foundation for success in any future writing. When students realize that longer pieces of writing are written one paragraph at a time, they will experience a smoother writing process. The book takes the essential unit of good writing and teaches it in its many forms:
• What Is a Paragraph?
• Paragraph Parts
• Kinds of Paragraphs
• Paragraph Practice
• Putting Paragraphs Together
• Paragraph Plans
• Fun with Paragraphs
• Answer Key
Sample activities: A Storm in Your Brain, All the Right Stuff, Sticking to the Point, Let Me Explain, Different and the Same, Essays are Easy, and more.
How to Write a Story
Children have a natural affinity for stories, and the 48-page reproducible book will help children not only love to hear stories but also to write them. The process of writing stories is covered from creation to completion:
• What is a Story?
• Definitions
• Writing Well
• The Writing Process
• Story Structure
• Thinking Creatively
• Plot
• Essentials
• Tools
• Time to Write
• Answer Key
Sample activities: A Slice of Life, Be Creative, Looking at Stories, What Did you Dream?, Team Stories, A Plot is Like a Map, It's Crunchy!, and more.
How to Write a Simple Report
The 48-page reproducible book turns report writing into an enjoyable activity for young learners. Areas covered include the Dewey Decimal system, using a CD-ROM encyclopedia, note cards, report-planning chart, and many more. The book takes students through the basic steps necessary to bring a topic through all the 'work in progress' stages from research to presentation:
• Getting Started
• Using the Library
• Writing Basics
• Writing the Report
• Report Pizzazz
• Final Checklist
• Resources
• Answer Key
Sample activities: Let's Get Specific, Searching for Books, Fact versus Opinion, Creating Categories, Editing Marks, Spelling Counts, What Do You Think?, and more.
How to Punctuate
The 48-page reproducible resource may be used as a workbook or use individual pages to supplement existing activities. Each page has the punctuation rule at the top, along with a brief description and examples. Teachers may select which pages are best for the class. . For example, a first-grade teacher may use only the first two pages of each section; a third grade teacher may use the first page for review and the other pages for continued learning:
• Ending Punctuation
• Periods in Abbreviations
• Periods in Omissions
• Commas
• Colons
• Apostrophes
• Quotation Marks
• Unit Assessment
• Resources, References, and Posters
• Answer Key
Sample activities: Answer It with a Question, Show Emotion, Abbreviate It, Leaving Things Out, My Favorite Things, A New, Exciting Use for Commas, and more.
How to Use Parts of Speech
All eight parts of speech are addressed in the 48-page reproducible resource. Each part of speech has at last three pages of worksheets-introduction, practice, and extension. Students are asked to categorize, rewrite sentences, create their own sentences, or write poetry:
• Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs
• Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections
• Review
• Resources
• Answer Key
Sample activities: Being Proper, More than One, How to Wash an Elephant, Silly Story, A versus An, Verbs that Help, Ant Picnic, Show Emotion, and more.