These ready-to-use lessons cover writing from beginning to end: entertaining starters, building suspense, adding detail, main event, story endings, and using dialogue. Inventive activities include analyzing a photo to draw out vivid verbs, and reading Snoozer Sentences to show the need for leads that grab!

Barbara Mariconda is the author of over 12 books for children. Her latest book for children, Turn the Cup Around, was nominated for an Edgar Allen Poe Award. A 20-year teaching veteran, Barbara is now the creative director of Empowering Magical Writes, a consulting firm dedicated to the training of teachers in the area of writing.

128 pages
Grades 2–4
0-590-87304-0

$14.95