Provides elementary school teachers with activities, worksheets, and lesson plans for teaching fifty basic writing skills.

Provides lesson plans, rubrics, examples, extensions, and student worksheets to be used with writing activities to teach students in grade five the whole writing process from brainstorming to publishing.

Presents a guide to integrating writing into the everyday instruction of students in grades three through five in order to further develop understanding of the content area being discussed. Features tips on developing an effective writing environment and contains templates, assessment plans, and sample prompts and projects throughout.

Offers ideas and projects for teachers to use while teaching their students how to write opinion and persuasive papers.