Focusing on Main Ideas
See the Main Idea
Add a Title
Name a Story/Write a Title
Find the Main Idea
Build Sentences and Paragraphs
Stay on Topic
Organizing Ideas
The Writing Process
List It
Sort Your List
Make an Idea Web
Make a Time-Order Chart
When Did It Happen?
Use Spatial Order
How Important Is It?
Compare It with a Venn
How to Compare
Writing Your Own Thoughts
Write for You
Who Will Read It?
Parts of a Friendly Letter
Dear Friend
Dear Teacher
It Happened to Me
The Writing Process: Personal Narrative
Writing to Inform or Explain
Use Complete Sentences
Action!
How to Do It
Fact or Opinion
This Is How It Happened
Special Instructions
It Is Just Around the Corner
Ask the Right Question
The Writing Process: News Story
Writing to Describe
Use Your Senses
Make a Riddle
This Is A Room
Imagine a Setting
Vary Sentence Structure
The Writing Process: Descriptive Writing
Writing to Entertain
A Story Line
Tell Me a Story
Make Your Characters Speak
Make Up a Simile
Tell a Tall Tale
The Writing Process: Story
Writer's Handbook
Answer Key