Grammar, Writing & Spelling

Paragraph Writing for Kids teaches the basic skills of composition, with special emphasis on the thought processes necessary for clear, organized writing.  Students are guided through the creation of five types of...

Wordsmith Apprentice was created with two basic purposes in mind:1) To supplement and apply grammatical principles. Many students learn punctuation, parts of speech, and basic sentence structure as workbook "exercises" but don't necessarily see the...

Foster a love of language with students in grades 4 and up using Jumpstarters for Abbreviations: Short Daily Warm-Ups for the Classroom! This 48-page resource helps students gain an understanding of abbreviations, such as forms of address, days,...

Connect students in grades 4 and up with conventions using Jumpstarters for Capitalization and Punctuation: Short Daily Warm-Ups for the Classroom! This 48-page resource covers end-of-sentence punctuation, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks,...

Facilitate a love of language with students in grades 4 and up using Jumpstarters for Figurative Language: Short Daily Warm-Ups for the Classroom. This 48-page language arts resource book provides daily practice on figurative language such...

Short warm-up exercises cover compound words, root words, prefixes, and suffixes. The book includes five warm-ups per reproducible page, answer keys, and suggestions for use. SEE SAMPLE PAGES: HERE   GRADE LEVEL: 4-8   FILE TYPE:...

Facilitate a love of language with students in grades 4 and up using Jumpstarters for Root Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes: Short Daily Warm-Ups for the Classroom. This 48-page language arts resource book helps students practice and...

Foster a love of language with students in grades 4 and up using Jumpstarters for Synonyms and Antonyms: Short Daily Warm-Ups for the Classroom! This 48-page resource helps students recognize and comprehend words in the context of “similar...

Write on! Write with students in grades 4 and up using Student Booster: Personal Writing. This 32-page book teaches students about journal entries, autobiographies, anecdotes, lists, and letters. Activities include setting goals, looking at points of...

Write on! Write with students in grades 4 and up using Student Booster: Writing Description. This 32-page book helps students write descriptions of people, places, things, and abstract ideas through the use of adjectives and lively verbs. Students...

Write on! Write with students in grades 4 and up using Student Booster: Writing Facts and Opinions. This 32-page book helps students write news articles, headlines, directions, editorials, and reviews. Activities include distinguishing facts from...

Write on! Write with students in grades 4 and up using Student Booster: Writing Fiction. This 32-page book helps students create characters, settings, and plots; develop ideas; and write original fiction. Students practice brainstorming, writing and...

Write on! Write with students in grades 4 and up using Student Booster: Writing Poetry. This 32-page book sparks students' interest in reading and writing poetry. It features types of poems such as acrostic, cinquain, diamante, haiku, limerick,...

Write on! Write with students in grades 4 and up using Student Booster: Writing Reports. This 32-page book gives students a step-by-step approach to writing reports on any topic. Activities cover focusing on a topic, taking notes, preparing outlines,...

Get a grasp on grammar with students in grades 5-6 using Grammar: Daily Skill Builders. This 96-page book features two short, reproducible activities per page and includes enough lessons for an entire school year. It covers topics such as parts of...

Get students in grades 5-6 reading with Reading: Daily Skill Builders. This 96-page book features two short, reproducible activities per page and includes enough lessons for an entire school year. It covers topics such as author’s purpose, context...

Support spelling and make phonics fun for students in grades 5-6 using Spelling and Phonics: Daily Skill Builders. This 96-page book features two short, reproducible activities per page and includes enough lessons for an entire school year. It covers...

Advance vocabulary for students in grades 5-6 using Vocabulary: Daily Skill Builders. This 96-page book features two short, reproducible activities per page and includes enough lessons for an entire school year. It covers topics such as defining,...

Providing an overview of grammar and an introduction to basic composition, this 96-page language arts resource book teaches the fundamentals of the English language. Grammar and Composition begins with words and progresses to sentences, paragraphs,...

Wordsmith is written for young people who are just beginning to explore their experiences, feelings and responses. The purpose of the book is to develop confidence in self-expression, first by learning some basic techniques of effective writing, and...

In Screenwriting 101, you will learn how to storyboard, format a screenplay, and think like a director. You will gain experience by working with well-known, beloved stories and movies, such as The Tale of Despereaux, Holes, Peter...

​ Students learn and review grammar as they search for the errors in these exciting stories. Since introducing the Great Editing Adventure Series, we've been receiving requests to offer a similar program for the higher level, seventh grade and up...

The purpose of Wordsmith Craftsman is to prepare students for college and beyond, with an emphasis on writing and thinking skills that will be useful to them for the rest of their lives. The approach is a bit more structured and serious than...

If you happen to be a person with a strong visual memory you remember how words look. Poor spellers, however, can’t recall how a word should look. In How to Teach Any Child to Spell, Gayle Graham offers a simple solution to the problem: Pull...