PMP EXPLORING WRITING

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

List of contents

About This BookHow to Use This BookPart One: Finding and Developing Ideas for WritingDiscovering IdeasThe Value of Keeping a JournalFocusing IdeasDeveloping IdeasOrganizing IdeasPart Two: Writing the DraftSentences: The Foundation of the DraftBuilding ParagraphsUsing Adjectives and Adverbs WiselyOrder and SequenceUsing Strong VerbsPoint of ViewPart Three: RevisionWhat Is Revision?Plan for RevisionRevision Peer ConsultantsPart Four: ProofreadingProofreading StrategiesProofreading and Computer ScreensThe Value of Proofreading PartnersAnswer KeyIndex

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Product details

• Authors: Muschla, Gary Muschla
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2010
• EAN: 9780071747158
• ISBN: 978-0-07-174715-8
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 280 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 620 g
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; JUVENILE NONFICTION / General, English, EDUCATION / Home Schooling, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Training, Management & management techniques, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching of a specific subject, Writing and editing guides, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Creative writing and creative writing guides, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General, Open learning, distance education, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & Phonics, EDUCATION / Teaching / General