Here's a personal creative writing course with 5 self-contained instructional units for learning to write narrative, short fiction, and poetry. Students can work independently at home or school. Includes real student writing samples.

Daily Writing Prompts makes writing practice a breeze! There are almost 200 reproducible, ready-to-use writing ideas, enough for every day of the school year. Centered around familiar themes, such as the seasons, animals, and fantasy, each prompt is inspired by quality literature or poetry and provides links to other subject areas.

Your students may think they are playing games, but you know that they are actually stretching their vocabularies, testing their decoding skills, recognizing common spelling patterns, and strengthening their visual thinking.

The 54 illustrated puzzles provide plenty of holiday fun for November and Decembe, including activities for Veterans Day, Election Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukah, and Kwanzaa. Turn to Holiday Puzzlers when you want a break from the usual classroom routine, put spare moments to good use, or to reward students who finish their work early.

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Introduce children to the alphabet with these 26 reproducible little books, one for each letter, one for every child. Texts are high-interest, easy-to-recite, and clearly illustrated to engage young children in learning. An ideal resource at school or home for children learning to recognize letters and their corresponding sounds.

While driving with your friends or family someplace far from home, your radiator starts steaming. You manage to find a gas station in a small town where they can fix your car, but it's going to take a few hours. You ask the mechanic if there's any place to get something to eat, and he points across the road to Moe's Café, a real dump. You don't have much choice, so you head inside and take a seat at the first booth on the left.
So begins Moe's Café, one of 48 innovative and intriguing prompts for student writing.

Every list imaginable-from Spelling Demons, Signs and Symbols, and Things to Write to Foreign Words, Major Sports Teams, and Shopping Tips - is at your fingertips in this updated and expanded reference. More than 100 lists, relating to all subject areas, can be used as support for basic skills instruction as well as overall curriculum enrichment-and just plain fun! Includes reproducible worksheets.

Good, creative writing requires inspiration and practice, and Time to Write provides both. Watch your students' writing skills grow with lessons that become progressively more involved.
Time to Write will help you generate new ideas and spark students' interest in learning. Includes teacher notes for each lesson and student warm-up activities.

Children learn to compose imaginative and meaningful poetry by using the poetic elements-such as metaphors, similies, and personification-that come naturally to them in everyday conversation! Includes writing suggestions and exercises, student samples, and art activities to extend and enhance poetic expression.

Help your students get their creative juices flowing with this rhyming dictionary. Packed with 500 rhyming word families, word origins, misspelled and misused words, plurals, prefixes, suffixes, and spelling advice plus a full complement of writing aids, glassary, specialized indexes, and more! Over 7,000 words in all, it's every young writer's handbook for poetry or narrative, for home or school. Includes a glossary and specialized index.

Help beginning writers get the creative juices flowing with this rhyming dictionary of more than 200 families of rhyming words-4,000 words in all. This easy-to-use guide includes a comprehensive list of synonyms and antonyms, metaphors and similes, homophones and homographs, compound words and contractions, and fun words, plus a glossary and specialized indexes.

Good, creative writing starts with a fresh idea and sparks writers to put pen to paper (or hands to keyboard!). Students can get writing immediately with the more than 140 writing prompts included. Designed to be used as a supplement to any writing program, this book offers students a chance to experience the process of writing on a variety of topics and in a variety of forms.

This book effectively combines two elements of the middle school curriculum into a focused and strategic process that has both immediate and long-lasting implications across ALL content areas.

The author defines 14 poetic elements in easy-to-understand terms and illustrates them with more than 100 examples of student written poetry. This handbook addresses both beginning and experienced writers and includes exercises, worksheets, writing ideas, and tips for editing and reading poetry.