Write It Your Way: A workbook of reading, writing, and literature

author: Education.com
name: Wayne
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2015/07/19
date added: 2015/07/19
shelves: children-s
review:
'Write It Your Way' by education.com is a workbook with some great guided exercises to improve writing skills. The book is aimed at probably 4th or 5th grade, but has things in it that I didn't start learning until later.

This workbook is divided up into 4 sections with an answer key at the end. Each section has a certificate of completion. The first section is called 'Reading Like a Writer, Writing Like a Reader' and has some guided paragraph reading and questions from the books 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'The Secret Garden.' The idea is to get writers to analyze what they read. The second section are a series of 'Journal Prompts for Kids' and there are fun sections like creating a menu item or a superhero or wishes that a genie grants. The third section is on 'Opinion Writing' and could be the most dry, but it is handled deftly and teaches good skills for term papers and future business writing. There are quite a few worksheets on identifying opinion versus narrative writing, and they increase in difficulty, but I found these to be really good. The final section titled 'Heroes and Villains: Story Writing' lays out some good framework for creating characters and laying out a story or novel.

There is lots of color. The exercises are mainly writing, but there are chances to draw. There is a link to a website for more worksheets. This could be the workbook that a young, struggling writer could use to boost school skills. I think the skill sets taught in this short book are invaluable for writing.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Dover Publications and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.



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