Helpful instruction and plenty of practice for your child to understand
the basics of writing.
Understanding writing is essential for your child to write with competence
and clarity. Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Writing gives your child
bite-sized explanations of this essential skill, with engaging exercises
that keep her or him motivated and excited to learn. They can practice the
writing skills that are challenging, polish skills they.ve mastered, and
stretch themselves to explore skills they have not yet attempted. This
title features 170 activities (plus answer key) that increase in difficulty
as your child proceeds through the book.

This book is appropriate for a 4th grade student working above his or her
grade level, or as a great review and practice for a struggling 5th or 6th
grader.

Your student will learn how to:
Find and develop ideas for topics
Create first drafts
Develop sentences and use correct subject-verb agreement
Revise and proofread her or his own work

Topics include: Finding and Developing Ideas for Writing, Discovering Ideas,
The Value of Keeping a Journal, Focusing Ideas, Developing Ideas, Organizing
Ideas, Writing the Draft Sentences: The Foundation of the Draft, Building
Paragraphs Using Adjectives and Adverbs, Wisely Order and Sequence, Using
Strong Verbs Point of View, Revision, What Is Revision?, Plan for Revision,
Revision Peer Consultants, Proofreading, Proofreading Strategies, Proofreading
and Computer Screens, The Value of Proofreading Partners...

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