This complete resource includes great activities, models, and reproducibles for helping students develop expository writing skills. Offers complete how-to's for presenting ideas in an orderly way, supporting ideas with essential facts, and writing to a specific audience. Includes independent learning ideas, reinforcement activities, and self-assessment pages. For use with Grades 4-8.
Tara McCarthy, an author who lives in Woodstock, NY, has written several books for Scholastic Teaching Resources. Her other titles include Teaching Literary Elements, Teaching Genre, The Middle Ages, Multicultural Myths and Legends, Multicultural Fables and Fairy Tales, 150 Thematic Writing Activities, and Literature-Based Geography.