When you're faced with writing research reports and essays, this is the book to turn to for successful - and interesting - models and strategies.
Students will find tips and models for writing book reports, social studies reports, how-to reports, persuasive essays, and autogiography, and more. In his successful direct, friendly style, Paul Janeczko makes the process of finding ideas, research, writing, revising, and presenting written work clear in this hands-on guide. He includes all the kinds of nonfiction writing kids are expected to master in grades 4 - 6.
Paul B. Janeczko is a poet and teacher and has edited more than twenty award-winning poetry anthologies for young people, including STONE BENCH IN AN EMPTY PARK, LOOKING FOR YOUR NAME, SEEING THE BLUE BETWEEN, and A POKE IN THE I, which was an American Library Association Notable Book.