Step Up to Writing, Grades 1 - 3 (Step Up Series)

Enhance your writing program with this standards-based writing resource or use it as a stand-alone teaching tool for young writers! It includes more than 30 mini-lessons that develop a structure of good writing habits--organization, ideas and content, word choice and voice, and conventions--and can be used either in sequential order or to strengthen specific writing weaknesses. It supports NCTE standards and includes a skills matrix that identifies modes (narrative, expository, descriptive, persuasive, letter writing, and poetry) and reproducible activity sheets for writing skills at three different levels--basic, intermediate, and challenging.