Help your students grow as writers with the engaging activities in this wonderful resource. They’ll learn how to craft great beginnings, create compelling characters, shape memorable settings, build exciting plots, and lots more. You’ll find literature-based mini-lessons, strategies for encouraging reluctant writers, lively reproducibles, and inspiring passages and tips from favorite children’s book authors such as Karen Hesse, Kevin Henkes, and Eve Bunting. For use with Grades 3-6.
Joan Novelli is a former classroom teacher and reading specialist. Her articles for parents, teachers, and children appear regularly in Seseme Street Parents, Parent and Child and other magazines. Joan is also a contributing editor to Instructor magazine and has edited many titles for Scholastic Teaching Resources. She lives in South Burlington, Vermont.