Over 100 Reproducible Activities to Sharpen Basic Skills

This resource helps students build their writing skills with activities that teach ideas and content, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and writing conventions. The practical and creative activities provide perfect practice for the skills noted below.

• brainstorming ideas
• identifying main ideas and details
• using descriptive words
• sequencing a story
• recognizing cause and effect
• using correct punctuation

Each book in the Power Practice series contains over 100 ready-to-use activity pages to provide students with skill practice. The fun activities can be used to supplement and enhance what you are teaching in your classroom. Give an activity page to students as independent class work, or send the pages home as homework to reinforce skills taught in class. An answer key is provided for quick reference.

The practical creative activities in Traits of Good Writing 6-8 provide perfect practice with several writing skills including:

• organizing ideas effectively
• developing strong paragraphs
• expanding word choice
• creating dynamic characters and settings
• using correct punctuation

Recharge skill review with Power Practice and give students the power to succeed!