Teaching Real-Life Writing To Young Learners: Easy Teacher-Tested Lessons That Help Children Learn To Write Lists, Letters, Invitations, How-To’s, And Much More

Author Paula Jensvold shares her classroom-tested ways for teaching children how to write for different purposes. Through clear, step-by-step mini-lessons and sample student-teacher dialogues, she demonstrates how to introduce children to must-know forms of real-life writing, including lists, signs and labels, how-to procedures, messages, ads, cards, e-mails, letters, and thank-you notes, and then provides practice activities for each writing form. Includes ideas for differentiated learning, reproducible practice pages, and suggested book lists to connect with each type of writing. For use with Grades K–2.