Language arts explorer junior

Journaling is a popular activity that allows people of all ages to write about their lives. Readers will learn how to write journal entries to record their daily activities and observations.

New addition to the award winning Language Arts Explorer Jr series, this titles teaches students how to write a news article.

Presents basic techniques for writing school reports. Identifies research strategies, tools for organizing information, and techniques for writing clearly, concisely and effectively.

Offers tips on writing personal narratives, with advice on choosing a topic, planning the story, writing the opening, body, and ending, and checking for spelling and grammar mistakes.

E-mail is a popular form of communication. People use it to chat with friends and conduct business. The activities in this book will teach readers what it takes to write e-mail for any situation.

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

Instructs young writers in the steps they need to take to write a fairy tale.

Learn how to write thrilling mystery stories

Introduces readers to the part of speech known as the adverb, which describes a verb.

Learn how to write the perfect business letter.

This book teaches readers how to plan and write memoirs. They will discover what makes an interesting life story, why details are important to creating an interesting story, and how to organize memories into a compelling narrative. A variety of activities provide hints and tips along the way to support the development of point of view, descriptive detail, logical organization, and the narrative as a whole.

Learn how to write the perfect thank-you note.

This book teaches readers how to plan and write comic books. They will discover ways of brainstorming ideas for a comic book story, how to outline a plot using a three-act organizational structure, how to incorporate dialogue and descriptions, and how to write clear and detailed instructions for an artist to draw the accompanying illustrations. A variety of activities provide hints and tips along the way to support the process of planning, organizing,...

Activities that teach concepts such as correct punctuation, capitalization, and how words or phrases can have particular effects.

Introduces readers to the part of speech known as the preposition, which shows the relation of a noun or pronoun to other items in the sentence.

Introduces readers to the part of speech known as the verb.