10 Easy Writing Lessons That Get Kids Ready for Writing Assessments Mary Rose; Scholastic Grades 3-6. Proven Ways to Raise Your Students' Scores on the State Performance Assessments. 112 pages. Click Here for More Information

25 Mini-Lessons for Teaching Writing: Quick Lessons That Help Students Become Effective Writers by Adele Fiderer; Scholastic Grades 3-6 - Each ten-minute lesson in this guide offers proven methods for strengthening a wide variety of writing skills. Students learn good writing techniques such as finding strong verbs, using details, crafting great endings, selecting good topics, and more. 88 pages. Click Here for More Information

350 Fabulous Writing Prompts : Thought-Provoking Springboards for Creative, Expository, and Journal Writing Jacqueline Sweeney; Scholastic Grades 4-8 - Click on the book cover at Amazon to view some examples! Click Here for More Information

75 Creative Ways to Publish Students' Writing by Cherlyn Sunflower; Scholastic Easy, Inexpensive, Fun Ways to Celebrate Student Writing Illustrated, step-by-step directions for creating all kinds of books‹pop-ups, corrals, fold-downs, flaps, see throughs and lots of other ideas too, including collages, student-made newspapers, banners, and mobiles. Click Here for More Information

Getting the Most Out of Morning Message and Other Shared Writing Lessons Carleen Dacruz Payne, Mary Browning Schulman; Scholastic Grades K-2. 128 pages. Great Techniques for Teaching Beginning Writers by Writing With Them Click Here for More Information

Interactive Writing: How Language & Literacy Come Together, K-2 by Andrea McCarrier, Gay Su Pinnell, Irene C. Fountas; Heinemann Interactive Writing is specifically focused on the early phases of writing, and has special relevance to prekindergarten, kindergarten, grade 1 and 2 teachers. In a clear, step-by-step format, the authors show how teachers can use interactive writing to teach a range of foundational literacy skills by sharing the pen with young writers Click Here for More Information

Literature Models to Teach Expository Writing Susan Anderson-McElveen, Connie Campbell Dierking; Maupin House This book offers K-5 lesson plans for the 6 basic skills of expository writing: Description, Explanation, Leads and Endings, Cause and Effect, Comparing and Contrasting, and Fact and Opinion. A kindergarten, primary, and intermediate lesson is provided for 20 carefully selected non-fiction books. The step-by-step models and charts can be used exactly as written, or adapted for use with other suggested literature titles that illustrate the target skill. 305 pp. Suggested retail price: $23.95 Click Here for More Information

Never Too Early to Write: Adventures in the K-1 Writing Workshop Bea Johnson; Maupin House If you are relunctant to start writing with your students before they can read, this book will motivate you and support your K-1 writing workshops with solid classroom stategies you can use right away. 150 pp. Click Here for More Information

Quick and Easy Learning Centers - Writing by Cynde Gregory; Scholastic Grades 1-3 Click Here for More Information

Razzle Dazzle Writing: Achieving Success Through 50 Target Skills by Melissa Forney; Maupin House From the cover: "Get ready to transform 'ho-hum' intermediate-grade writers into mature writers who love to write--and perform well on assessments. This book brings home the idea that good writing is more than just what we say. It is how we say it! You'll find lots of ready-to-use reproducible pages included in this book. Click Here for More Information

Teaching Written Response to Text: Constructing Quality Answers to Open-Ended Comprehension Questions by Nancy S. Boyles; Maupin House How can middle-grade teachers get kids to write good answers to comprehension questions? This book gives you the tools to move all your students toward independence and mastery. Teaching Written Response to Text 1) Shows you how to teach written response as a form of expository writing using essential strategies associated with proficient reading and effective questioning, 2) focuses on incorporating the principles of explicit instruction to ensure quality student performance, and 3) provides scores of narrative and expository models that can be used as practice. Click Here for More Information