Help Families Build Stronger, More Confident Writers

Strong writing starts with organized ideas and regular practice. This 16-page booklet gives families practical activities and a clear process that supports student writing without doing the work for their child.

Build the Skills Students Need to Plan, Draft and Revise

Use this booklet to help families:

• Connect speaking and writing through dictated stories and written directions.
• Build regular practice with journals, messages and sentence-a-day stories.
• Follow six steps: select a topic, prewrite, organize, draft, revise and publish.
• Use reading discussions to study character, setting, plot and an author's choices.
• Guide research papers while the student keeps responsibility for the final work.