Incorporates new children's literature into writing instruction — over 250 enticing titles
- Contains more than 75 classroom-tested writing workshop mini-lessons. In this comprehensive resource, 2 veteran primary teachers share a multi-faceted approach to teaching writing that addresses ideas, organization, word choice, voice, sentence fluency and conventions. Their year-long plan, organized month-by-month, includes ideas for interactive morning messages, read-aloud suggestions and more than 75 mini-lessons for teaching genre, grammar, the traits and much more.
- Seamlessly combines the use of powerful mentor texts, strategy lessons and the traits. Includes a wealth of reproducible student pages such as genre-specific planning sheets and writing paper complete with an editing checklist.
- Includes reproducible planning sheets for a variety of genres.