Product Description: Ever wonder where novelists, poets, and other writers get their ideas? Author Dana Meachen Rau explores how some writers take ordinary things and make them special, and how others use their imaginations to create new worlds for readers to explore...read more

Aspiring writers will learn how to blend the perfect 'ingredients,' such as characters, settings, and action, to concoct an imaginative story that will amaze their friends and family alike!

Introduces different methods of writing so the reader can choose which one works best for them, teaches how to revise and edit, and discusses how to make good word choices.

Product Description: By Arnold Cheyney. These ready-to-use writing ideas are designed to get students writing quickly. Each prompt consists of a single-page handout with straightforward directions. A section on the basics of writing covers punctuation, parts of speech, and grammar and usage...read more

Product Description: Inspire students to practice and develop their creative writing skills with this extensive "ideabook." Lessons present concepts progressively, increasing the required level of student involvement. A wide range of activities cover such topics as synonyms, alliteration, poetry (including limericks, haiku, and cinquain), advertisements, nonfiction essays, research reports, character sketches, and short stories...read more

Introduces the form of Japanese poetry known as haiku, explores the seven keys to writing haiku, and provides instructions for five haiku projects, including creating haiga, or illustrated haiku.

Offers advice and exercises to help children develop good writing skills. (view table of contents)

Introduces ways to write compositions, poems, stories, and letters, by following Bridget, Barnaby, and Babette on their explorations. (view table of contents)

A companion title to School Smarts shows girls how to use words effectively in creative writing and in their schoolwork, with topics including how to find their voice, create characters, and tackle research papers. Original. 65,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Presents tips for writing stories, essays, and reports, and focusing on sentence structure, paragraph organization, grammar, usage, punctuation, and footnotes (view table of contents)

Introduces the different kinds of poetry and the mechanics of writing poetry, providing an opportunity for the reader to experience the joy of making a poem