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Really Writing!: Ready-to-Use Writing Process Activities for the Elementary Grades

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This is an excellent reference for teachers looking for fun and educational writing projects. All the book's ideas can be used for 1st to 6th graders. The book has a great layout and it includes objectives,and ideas for both the more challenged and gifted learners. The lessons are well layed out, easy to use and it has great reproducibles. I would highly recommend this book to any teacher. Both teachers and the students enjoy the lessons in this book.

I bought this book to help my son practice writing. The author has broken down the steps of writing to include brainstorming, organizing, and the usual plan, draft, edit, and write pieces. She emphasizes the last step which is "publishing" making the writing work worthwhile for the children to do. The activities are designed to be done by groups of children in a classroom setting but can be done one-on-one, too. She has easier steps for beginning writers and more advanced activities for advanced writers.

The pages in the book may be copied to hand out to the children and the binding is supposed to work that way. I found the binding a bit cumbersome and would have preferred spiral binding.

The book could be improved by better cross-reference or organizational helps so that activities can be selected more quickly and easily. The teacher needs to spend some prep time to use the activities, too. But otherwise, the author's extensive experience shines through to make useful writing exercises for children in grades 2 through 6.

Instead of repeating the other reviews, I'd like to just say that I used this extensively in my 3rd and 5th grade classes. The children enjoyed the activities and it really helped them improve their wriing.