Just Write Creativity and Craft in Writing by Elsie S. Wilmerding, Alexandra S. Bigelow Grades 1–4
Just Write is a classroom-tested resource that helps students become confident, expressive writers. Students are guided through the writing process from initial idea to final edited and published narrative. Throughout, they are given models to follow and are encouraged to be creative. The drawing activities in Write about Me and Write about My World help children bridge the gap between thinking and talking about an idea and writing about it.
Skills Addressed
• Basic punctuation
• Spelling
• Indenting
• Overused words
• Comparisons
• Point of view
• Writing dialogue
• Topic sentences
• Journal Writing
• Editing and revising
• Characters
• Feelings
• Setting
• Conclusions
• Brainstorming
• Using your senses
• Story planning with webs and other graphic organizers
• Description
• Types of writing
• Reasons for writing
• Summary writing
• Single? and multiparagraph organization
• Paragraph transitions
• Sequence
• Fact versus opinion
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