Lets Write

Packed with ideas from kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers, this book will help set up an exciting and effective writing program. From time-saving tips on conferences to fresh ideas for writing across the curriculum, this resource combines everything the teacher needs in one volume. Includes sample mini-lessons on the mechanics of writing and classroom-proven methods to inspire beginning writers. For use with Grades K-2.

These laminated wipe-off books, shrink-wrapped with their own grease pencils, provide hours of practice for children learning to write letters and numbers.

For all educators grades 3 and up, here is a proven ready-to-use resource that tailors writing experiences to the needs of any student having difficulty writing - even the most reluctant writer. Starting with simple words and progressing to sentences, paragraphs, reports, stories, and essays, Let's Write! Takes into account all ability levels and learning styles to help each student achieve success. Basic to more advanced skills are presented sequentially in lessons that devote small amounts of time to four diverse tasks. The program provides over 200 activities and over 100 worksheets, and is organized into two parts: Part I - focuses on teaching the basic structures of written language in seven sections: Words, Sentences, Paragraphs, Research Reports, Book Reports, Stories, and Essays. Part II - offers a combination of specific skills development and opportunities for practice in nine sections: Grammar, Editing, Poetry, Literature Connection, Holidays, Letters, Using the Newspaper, Real Life Writing, and Gimmicks & Gags.

Let’s Write offers a wealth of suggestions for approaches to developing primary school pupils’ writing skills that will capture the children’s interest, while enabling them to improve their ability to express themselves in writing. It aims to meet the requirements of the new national curriculum for English at KS2 in a way that will develop the children’s standard of writing by presenting activities that they will find enjoyable and stimulating. Throughout the book, the emphasis is on providing activities that will engage the pupils in a discussion of how texts are structured, before producing their own writing. John Foster suggests a range of imaginative tasks that both literacy specialists and non-specialists will find useful in developing children’ ability to write coherently and correctly. Let’s Write includes: a clear explanation of the writing process with activities designed to improve pupils’ drafting skills examples of the different types of writing for pupils to analyse, which they can use as models for their own writing a range of imaginative ideas for writing tasks, together with suggestions of curriculum opportunities for practising particular forms writing challenges which can be used to stretch more able writers and thus to introduce differentiation by task, as well as by outcome writing tips, for example, on sentence structure and paragraph structure, appropriate to the different types of writing activities involving pupils in the assessment of their writing a section on writing correctly, focussing on grammar, spelling and punctuation a section containing games and activities designed to extend pupils’ vocabulary. Let’s Write provides teachers with a lively collection of resources that will be welcomed by teachers and that will help to develop children’s writing.

These laminated wipe-off books, shrink-wrapped with their own grease pencils, provide hours of practice for children learning to write letters and numbers.

This wipe-clean cursive handwriting book, developed with handwriting experts at Zaner-Bloser, the leader in teaching kids to write for more than 125 years, combines Hidden Pictures puzzles and other fun activities with cursive handwriting practice in a convenient reusable format. While many schools no longer teach cursive, it is still an important life skill. Highlights brings "Fun with a Purpose" into learning cursive with this fifty-six-page, full-color, write-on, wipe-off book with included dry erase marker. The book has easy-to-follow instructions and special digital QR codes on the pages that can be scanned with a mobile device to launch animated handwriting tutorials that make learning cursive easy and fun. The book's horizontal layout will allow both right-handers and left-handers to write smoothly, free of any obstruction from the spiral.

Reading and writing are the most important skills a child acquires during his or her lifetime--and it all begins in the early childhood classroom, where creative play, discovery and time to explore are at the heart of a developmentally appropriate and child-centered curriculum. Striking a balance between these often competing priorities can challenge even the most experienced educator.