Product Description: Introduce the effective power of the mini-lesson format into your classroom and discover the skills you need to teach your young writers. With fifty-nine mini-lessons organized by the function they serve in the kindergarten classroom, and calendars that outline skills expectations for your students' first year of writing instruction, this resource helps you customize the power of Writers' Workshop so you can meet the needs of your emergent writers...read more

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Product Description: Twenty well-known children's books become models to teach primary and elementary students expository and narrative writing skills. Children learn about brain-storming, organization, elaboration, and writing conventions with readily available, quality children's literature...read more