10 Easy Writing Lessons That Get Kids Ready for Writing Assessments: Proven Ways to Raise Your Students' Scores on the State Performance Assessments in Writing

I'm a veteran teacher of more than 20 years and an English major to boot and I've always found teaching writing difficult and sooooo tedious. This book is a God send. I did almost all of the assignments given and my class enjoyed all of them. We wrote six, yes six, five paragraph essays this year and my kids really became better writers. I have recommended it to many colleagues and my student teacher used it successfully in her first teaching job. It's a "keeper" and well worth the money.

This book is wonderful. I have been looking for a book to help my 4th graders prepare for the Writing Assessment, and this is it. The kids love the lessons and everyone from my Sp.Ed students to my Gifted students have been making progress. My husband sometimes reads stories that my students write and he has seen an improvement. One of my parents said that her son's everyday writing is even getting better, and she knows we have been writing. We still have a lot more of the book to cover . I know their writing will get even better as we progress.

I was in a classroom substituting, and saw some of the activities from this book being used. The kids
were motivated! I ordered the book for my own use! Some of the activities can be used as journal writing/time or fillers.

In my 13 years of curriculum, I have not found a writing book better than this one for elementary school. Well worth every penny of the money spent.

The lesson plans are done for you, and they are step by step! There are modeled pieces of writing included and bulletin board display ideas. There are skills imbedded in the lesson.

There are also additional writing ideas which can convert the 10 weeks into 30 weeks of writing practice.

Great for new teachers! Great for those of us who are uncomfortable teaching writing, because we are unsure of our own writing quality.

I LOVE this book.

I have a third and fourth grade classroom. I find the lessons contained in this book provide easy to follow, day by day steps that the children enjoy writing about. Students who had barely written three sentences are now writing five paragraphs with all the components of a good paragraph. I highly recommend this book, which can be adapted to any classroom, to increase your students writing skills!!