Kumon Writing workbooks offer a complete lesson plan for developing writing skills and vocabulary. The purpose of these workbooks it to teach children how to write sentences with proper punctuation and grammar, and to complete a five-paragraph essay.

First Grade Writing Workbook for kids ages 6-7

Support your child's educational journey with the Spectrum grade 1 writing book that teaches basic handwriting skills to first graders.

Writing books for 1st graders are a great way for your first grader to learn basic writing skills such as writing stories, letters, opinions, and more through a variety of creative writing prompts and writing practice that is both fun AND educational!

Why You'll Love This Kids Writing Book

• Engaging and educational writing prompts. Writing a friendly letter, Sight word recognition, and Telling an old story are a few of the fun kids writing activities that incorporate writing practice for kids into everyday settings to help inspire learning into your child's curriculum.
• Testing progress along the way. Post-tests are included at the end of every chapter to test student knowledge. A writer's handbook and answer key are included in the back of the 1st grade book to track your child's progress along the way before moving on to new and exciting activities.
• Practically sized for every activity The 112-page 1st grade workbook is sized at about 8 1/4 inches x 10 1/2 inches--giving your child plenty of space to complete each exercise.

About Spectrum

For more than 20 years, Spectrum has provided solutions for parents who want to help their children get ahead, and for teachers who want their students to meet and exceed set learning goals--providing workbooks that are a great resource for both homeschooling and classroom curriculum.

The Writing Book Contains:

• 4 chapters full of vibrant activities and illustrations
• End-of-chapter tests, an answer key, and writer's handbook
• Perfectly sized at about 8 1/4 x 10 1/2

Fifth Grade Writing Workbook for kids ages 10-11

Support your child's educational journey with the Spectrum Grade 5 Writing Workbook that teaches basic handwriting skills to fifth graders.

Writing Books for 5th graders are a great way for students to learn basic writing skills such as writing stories, writing about literature, persuasive writing, and more through a variety of creative writing prompts and writing practice that are both fun AND educational!

Why You'll Love This 5th Grade Workbook

• Engaging and educational writing prompts. Writing a personal narrative, Finding main ideas and details in pictures, and writing a persuasive article are a few of the fun kids writing activities that incorporate writing practice for kids into everyday settings to help inspire learning into your child's curriculum.
• Testing progress along the way. Post-tests are included at the end of every chapter to test student knowledge. A writer's handbook and answer key are included in the back of the 5th grade book to track your child's progress along the way before moving on to new and exciting activities.
• Practically sized for every activity The 136-page writing activity book is sized at about 8 1/2 inches x 11 inches--giving your child plenty of space to complete each exercise.

About Spectrum

For more than 20 years, Spectrum has provided solutions for parents who want to help their children get ahead, and for teachers who want their students to meet and exceed set learning goals--providing workbooks that are a great resource for both homeschooling and classroom curriculum.

The Kids Writing Book Contains:

• 4 chapters full of vibrant activities and illustrations
• End-of-chapter tests, an answer key, and writer's handbook
• Perfectly sized at about 8 1/2 x 11

2nd Grade Writing Workbook for kids ages 7-8

Support your child's educational journey with the Spectrum Second Grade Writing Workbook that teaches basic handwriting skills to second graders.

Writing books for 2nd graders are a great way for second graders to learn basic writing skills such as writing stories, letters, opinions, and more through a variety of creative writing prompts and writing practice that are both fun AND educational!

Why You'll Love This Second Grade Workbook

• Engaging and educational writing prompts. Writing a book review, Name that story, and writing a thank-you note are a few of the fun kids writing activities that incorporate writing practice for kids into everyday settings to help inspire learning into your child's curriculum.
• Testing progress along the way. Post-tests are included at the end of every chapter to test student knowledge. A writer's handbook and answer key are included in the back of the 2nd grade book to track your child's progress along the way before moving on to new and exciting activities.
• Practically sized for every activity The 112-page second grade workbook is sized at about 8 1/2 inches x 10 3/4 inches--giving your child plenty of space to complete each exercise.

About Spectrum

For more than 20 years, Spectrum has provided solutions for parents who want to help their children get ahead, and for teachers who want their students to meet and exceed set learning goals--providing workbooks that are a great resource for both homeschooling and classroom curriculum.

The Kids Writing Book Contains:

• 4 chapters full of vibrant activities and illustrations
• End-of-chapter tests, an answer key, and writer's handbook
• Perfectly sized at about 8 1/2 x 10 3/4

Grade 6 Writing Workbook for kids ages 11-12

Support your child's educational journey with the Spectrum Grade 6 Writing Workbook that teaches basic handwriting skills to 6th grade students.

Writing Books are a great way for students to learn basic writing skills such as writing stories, informative writing, argumentative writing, and more through a variety of creative writing prompts and writing practice that are both fun AND educational!

Why You'll Love This 6th Grade Workbook

• Engaging and educational writing prompts. Writing a personal narrative, Comparing characters, and Incorporating graphics and visual aids into writing are a few of the fun kids writing activities that incorporate writing practice for kids into everyday settings to help inspire learning into your child's curriculum.
• Testing progress along the way. Post-tests are included at the end of every chapter to test student knowledge. A writer's handbook and answer key are included in the back of the 6th grade book to track your child's progress along the way before moving on to new and exciting activities.
• Practically sized for every activity The 136-page writing activity book is sized at about 8 1/2 inches x 11 inches--giving your child plenty of space to complete each exercise.

About Spectrum

For more than 20 years, Spectrum has provided solutions for parents who want to help their children get ahead, and for teachers who want their students to meet and exceed set learning goals--providing workbooks that are a great resource for both homeschooling and classroom curriculum.

The Kids Writing Book Contains:

• 4 chapters full of vibrant activities
• End-of-chapter tests, an answer key, and writer's handbook
• Perfectly sized at about 8 1/2 x 11

Have you ever wanted to create your own story--and capture it for posterity? Elys Dolan brings her comic touch to the process by portraying her narrator-self as a friendly worm (it's quicker to draw than a person!). How do you come up with something to write about? Build and flesh out your story? Use color and space effectively? From combining two favorite things to form a story idea to interviewing your characters to physically putting a book together, the author walks readers through some surprisingly comprehensive beginners' techniques that may have something to offer even seasoned storytellers. This witty, fun, conversational, step-by-step guide--part picture book, part activity book--is packed with prompts, exercises, tips, and jokes. So find your inspiration, grab your pens and pencils, and get making!

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3rd Grade Writing Workbook for kids ages 8-9

Support your child's educational journey with the Spectrum Grade 3 Writing Book that teaches basic handwriting skills to third graders.

3rd grade writing books are a great way for students to learn basic writing skills such as writing stories, letters, opinions, and more through a variety of creative writing prompts and writing practice that are both fun AND educational!

Why You'll Love This 3rd Grade Book

• Engaging and educational writing prompts. Writing character dialogue, Writing a news report, and Sentence- and paragraph-building are a few of the fun kids writing activities that incorporate writing practice for kids into everyday settings to help inspire learning into your child's curriculum.
• Testing progress along the way. Post-tests are included at the end of every chapter to test student knowledge. A writer's handbook and answer key are included in the back of the 3rd grade book to track your child's progress along the way before moving on to new and exciting activities.
• Practically sized for every activity The 136-page writing activity book is sized at about 8 1/2 inches x 11 inches--giving your child plenty of space to complete each exercise.

About Spectrum

For more than 20 years, Spectrum has provided solutions for parents who want to help their children get ahead, and for teachers who want their students to meet and exceed set learning goals--providing workbooks that are a great resource for both homeschooling and classroom curriculum.

The Kids Writing Book Contains:

• 3 chapters full of vibrant activities and illustrations
• End-of-chapter tests, an answer key, and writer's handbook
• Perfectly sized at about 8 1/2 x 11

Give your fourth-graders the fun and focused writing practice they need to become to become strong and successful writers. The 125 engaging, 10- to 15-minute lessons support any writing program.

25 weeks of instruction cover the following trait-based writing skills:

Ideas
Week 1: Choosing a Strong Idea
Week 2: Writing a Topic Sentence and Supporting Details
Week 3: Developing Character, Setting, and Plot Ideas
Week 4: Elaborating on Ideas and Details
Week 5: Keeping Your Focus

Organization
Week 1: Sequencing
Week 2: Grouping Together Ideas and Details
Week 3: Describing Things by Position
Week 4: Grouping by How Things Are Alike or Different
Week 5: Choosing Which Way to Organize Your Writing

Word Choice
Week 1: Writing About Action
Week 2: Using Descriptive Language
Week 3: Using Figurative Language
Week 4: Choosing Words for Your Audience
Week 5: Getting the Reader's Attention

Sentence Fluency
Week 1: Revising Run-on Sentences
Week 2: Combining Sentences with Conjunctions
Week 3: More Ways to Combine Sentences
Week 4: Beginning Sentences in Different Ways
Week 5: Writing a Smooth Paragraph

Voice
Week 1: Examining Different Writing Voices
Week 2: Using Your Voice to Persuade
Week 3: Writing from Different Points of View
Week 4: Using Voice in Poetry
Week 5: Developing Your Own Voice

This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.

About Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

Igniting young minds to help every child learn and succeed! Evan-Moor creates engaging and meaningful learning resources for children in grades PreK - 8. Trusted by parents and teachers for over 45 years, Evan-Moor's award-winning resources are thoughtfully developed to nurture children's hearts and minds to help them reach their full potential.

Give kids the tools to succeed with 101 essential sight words for ages 4 to 6

Sight words are common words like of, the, and you that don't fit the standard rules of phonics and can only be learned through memorization. My Sight Words Workbook is full of fun activities that make it easy for kids to master these words and become more fluent readers!

Kindergarten and 1st grade success--Kids will explore 100+ write-in activities that encourage them to speak, trace, and write each sight word--then use it in a sentence to help commit it to memory.

Colorful and illustrated--Pictures, puzzles, games, and a helpful monkey character make this sight words workbook fun to use, so kids are excited to practice.

Watch their skills grow--Kids can color in a star for every word they master and see their progress in real time to stay motivated and engaged while they learn.

Teach early readers to identify common words on sight and boost their reading fluency with My Sight Words Workbook!

Kumon Writing workbooks offer a complete lesson plan for developing writing skills and vocabulary. The purpose of these workbooks it to teach children how to write sentences with proper punctuation and grammar, and to complete a five-paragraph essay.

Topics Include:

-Vocabulary

-Nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives

-Irregular verbs

-Contractions

-Subjects and predicates

-Punctuation

-Writing a story

From fairy tales to five-paragraph essays, Kumon Writing Workbooks offer a complete program to improve the development and organization of ideas and expand vocabulary. Our fun and innovative exercises inspire creativity and the desire to write.

Topics Include:

-Direct and indirect quotations

-Main and dependent clauses

-Noun, adverb, and adjective clauses

-Writing a three-paragraph essay

-Writing a five-paragraph essay

-Outlining, editing, and revising an essay

Interested in writing but don't know how to get started?

Love reading and want to know more about how stories are created?

Like ridiculous tales about troublesome sisters, peanut butter and steamrollers?

Look no further!

Esteemed writer Richard Scrimger is here to answer all your burning questions about writing: whether about plot, character, structure, story hooks or commas. (Actually, don't ask him about commas, it's not that kind of book.)

Using clever (so he thinks) analogies, (sort of) brilliant examples and funny (well . . .) anecdotes, he will give you (truly) useful tools to start you on your way as a writer. And if that's not enough, comic illustrations by D. McFadzean are the pepperoni on the writing pizza! (That will make sense once you read the book.)

So come, read this book and start your writing journey!

Grade 4 Writing Workbook for kids ages 9-10

Support your child's educational journey with the Spectrum Fourth Grade Writing Workbook that teaches basic handwriting skills to fourth graders.

4th grade writing books are a great way for students to learn basic writing skills such as writing stories, letters, opinions, and more through a variety of creative writing prompts and writing practice that are both fun AND educational!

Why You'll Love This 4th Grade Workbook

• Engaging and educational writing prompts. Creating a character, Adding pictures to a story, and Giving instructions and directions are a few of the fun kids writing activities that incorporate writing practice for kids into everyday settings to help inspire learning into your child's curriculum.
• Testing progress along the way. Post-tests are included at the end of every chapter to test student knowledge. A writer's handbook and answer key are included in the back of the 4th grade book to track your child's progress along the way before moving on to new and exciting activities.
• Practically sized for every activity The 144-page writing activity book is sized at about 8 1/2 inches x 11 inches--giving your child plenty of space to complete each exercise.

About Spectrum

For more than 20 years, Spectrum has provided solutions for parents who want to help their children get ahead, and for teachers who want their students to meet and exceed set learning goals--providing workbooks that are a great resource for both homeschooling and classroom curriculum.

The Kids Writing Book Contains:

• 4 chapters full of vibrant activities and illustrations
• End-of-chapter tests, an answer key, and writer's handbook
• Perfectly sized at about 8 1/2 x 11

Give your fifth-graders the fun and focused writing practice they need to become to become strong and successful writers! The 125 engaging, 10- to 15-minute lessons support any writing program.

25 weeks of instruction cover the following trait-based writing skills:

Ideas
Week 1: Choosing a Strong Idea
Week 2: Writing a Topic Sentence and Supporting Details
Week 3: Developing Character, Setting, and Plot Ideas
Week 4: Elaborating on Ideas and Details
Week 5: Maintaining Your Focus

Organization
Week 1: Sequencing
Week 2: Organizing Information Logically
Week 3: Organizing Information to Compare and Contrast
Week 4: Organizing to Persuade
Week 5: Choosing Which Way to Organize Your Writing

Word Choice
Week 1: Writing About Action
Week 2: Using Descriptive Language
Week 3: Using Similes, Metaphors, and Personification
Week 4: Choosing Words for Your Audience
Week 5: Getting the Reader's Attention

Sentence Fluency
Week 1: Combining Sentences with Conjunctions
Week 2: Writing Complex Sentences
Week 3: Parallel Structure Within a Sentence
Week 4: Beginning Sentences in Different Ways
Week 5: Writing a Smooth Paragraph

Voice
Week 1: Identifying Different Writing Voices
Week 2: Using Different Voices for Different Purposes
Week 3: Using Voice in Poetry
Week 4: Writing from Different Points of View
Week 5: Using Voice in Persuasive Writing

This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.

About Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

Igniting young minds to help every child learn and succeed! Evan-Moor creates engaging and meaningful learning resources for children in grades PreK - 8. Trusted by parents and teachers for over 45 years, Evan-Moor's award-winning resources are thoughtfully developed to nurture children's hearts and minds to help them reach their full potential.

The go-to bestselling guide to help young people navigate from a middle school book report to English Comp 101

In How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids, New York Times bestselling author and professor Thomas C. Foster gives tweens the tools they need to become thoughtful readers.

With funny insights and a conversational style, he explains the way writers use symbol, metaphor, characterization, setting, plot, and other key techniques to make a story come to life.

From that very first middle school book report to that first college course, kids need to be able to understand the layers of meaning in literature. Foster makes learning this important skill fun and exciting by using examples from How the Grinch Stole Christmas to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, from short stories and poems to movie scripts.

This go-to guide unlocks all the hidden secrets to reading, making it entertaining and satisfying.

Give your second-graders the fun and focused writing practice they need to become strong and successful writers! Thanks to engaging art, topics, and activities, even primary writers can practice the six traits of writing.

25 weeks of instruction cover the following trait-based writing skills:

Ideas
Week 1: Choose a Good Topic
Week 2: Add Details
Week 3: Choose Better Details
Week 4: Stick to the Topic
Week 5: Review

Organization
Week 1: Put Things in the Right Order
Week 2: Beginning, Middle, and End
Week 3: Group Together Ideas and Details
Week 4: Group by How Things Are the Same or Different
Week 5: Review

Word Choice
Week 1: Use Strong Verbs
Week 2: Describe the Action
Week 3: Use Adjectives
Week 4: Use Exact Nouns
Week 5: Review

Sentence Fluency
Week 1: Write a Sentence
Week 2: Write Longer Sentences
Week 3: Fix Run-on and Rambling Sentences
Week 4: Combine Choppy Sentences
Week 5: Review

Voice
Week 1: Use Formal and Informal Language
Week 2: Use Different Writing Styles
Week 3: Create a Mood
Week 4: Write from Different Points of View
Week 5: Review

This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.

About Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

Igniting young minds to help every child learn and succeed! Evan-Moor creates engaging and meaningful learning resources for children in grades PreK - 8. Trusted by parents and teachers for over 45 years, Evan-Moor's award-winning resources are thoughtfully developed to nurture children's hearts and minds to help them reach their full potential.

A fantastic write-in book that helps children learn to write their own stories.

Includes lots of different writing activities including a fictional school journal, writing a comic strip, and forming a story around a picture. Packed with writing tips and a storywriting toolkit to inspire budding authors. Concealed spiral binding that allows the book to open flat but doesn't get in the way as you write.

Step 1: Choose an idea for your story. A good one.
Step 2: Decide on a setting. Don't be afraid to mix things up.
Step 3: Create a heroine--or a hero.
Now: Begin.

Accomplished storytellers Kate Messner and Mark Siegel playfully chronicle the process of becoming a writer in this fun follow-up to How to Read a Story, guiding young storytellers through the joys and challenges of the writing process. From choosing an idea, to creating a problem for their character to resolve, to coming to The End, this empowering picture book breaks down the writing process in a dynamic and accessible way, encouraging kids to explore their own creativity--and share their stories with others

- Perfect for educators, librarians, and parents who are helping children develop early writing and reading skills
- Great read-aloud book for preschool- and kindergarten-aged children interested in learning to read
- Helps teach Common Core Curriculum skills

Young readers who love We Are in a Book , How Rocket Learned to Read, and Also an Octopus will love the reading and writing lessons and inspiration in How to Write a Story.

- Read-aloud books for kids ages 3-5
- Learning to write books for kids
- Kindergarten, pre-K creativity books

Kate Messner is an award-winning author whose many books for kids have been selected as Best Books by the New York Times, Junior Library Guild, Indie Bound, and Bank Street College of Education. She lives on Lake Champlain with her family.

Mark Siegel is the author of many graphic novels and children's picture books, including the 5 Worlds series, as well as the illustrator of How to Read a Story and the Robert F. Sibert Honor Book To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel. He lives in New York.

Seventh Grade Writing Workbook for kids ages 12-13

Support your child's educational journey with Spectrum's Grade 7 Writing Workbook that teaches basic handwriting skills to seventh grade students.

Writing Books are a great way for students to learn basic writing skills such as writing stories, informative writing, argumentative writing, and more through a variety of creative writing prompts and writing practice that are both fun AND educational!

Why You'll Love This Writing Book

• Engaging and educational writing prompts. Writing part of a fiction story, Citing sources, and Writing how-to instructions and directions are a few of the fun kids writing activities that incorporate writing practice for kids into everyday settings to help inspire learning into your child's curriculum.
• Testing progress along the way. Post-tests are included at the end of every chapter to test student knowledge. A writer's handbook and answer key are included in the back of the 7th grade book to track your child's progress along the way before moving on to new and exciting activities.
• Practically sized for every activity The 136-page writing activity book is sized at about 8 1/2 inches x 11 inches--giving your child plenty of space to complete each exercise.

About Spectrum

For more than 20 years, Spectrum has provided solutions for parents who want to help their children get ahead, and for teachers who want their students to meet and exceed set learning goals--providing workbooks that are a great resource for both homeschooling and classroom curriculum.

The Kids Writing Book Contains:

• 3 chapters full of vibrant activities
• End-of-chapter tests, an answer key, and writer's handbook
• Perfectly sized at about 8 1/2 x 11