Learn how to organize your ideas for a speech and how to talk in front of an audience.

Writing poems can help teach new ways of thinking about words and their meanings. A poet must consider the sound of the words written on the page. Readers will use the activities in this book to develop their poetry writing skills.

A great interview is more than just two people talking. An interviewer must learn how to ask the right questions. The activities in this book will help the reader learn more about interviews and how to turn an interview into interesting text.

Shows the steps of writing a mystery from charater development to building suspense to solving the case.

Provide activities that teach how to plan and write new versions of familiar fairy tales that change characters and settings or take a different perspective, generally for comic effect.

Readers will learn about the role adjectives play in sentences by following the story of Tom and his sister, Kate, who visit the zoo with their Uncle Mike.

Readers will learn about the function pronouns have in sentences by following the story of Sam and his visiting cousins, Jim and Anna.

Young readers learn the part adverbs play when used in sentences.