Supplemental Materials

In this creative writing curriculum for middle schoolers (roughly 6th- to 9th-grade), young writers of fiction and poetry learn vital skills such as point of view, characterization, plotting, dialogue, and description. Simple but innovative exercises...

The Creative Writer, Level Two guides middle- and high-school students through an innovative, compelling series of exercises, each one designed to build your skill in the essential ingredients of fiction and poetry. Then, author Boris Fishman sets you...

A writer's guide to finding, evaluating, quoting, and documenting sources (and avoiding plagiarism). A thorough, accessible guide to research, citation, and source evaluation, designed to assist students growing up in an era of social media, fake news,...

This personal dictionary provides an initial list of 1,200 high-frequency words, including content-area words and "spelling demons," plus plenty of blank lines for new words chosen by the student or teacher. Additional words can be selected from...

Writing a Research Paper presents information on how high school students ought to approach the research and writing process. This booklet is designed to guide them through this process-from selecting a topic all the way to publishing the final draft. ...

Grab your sleuthing hat and get set for brain-teasing mysteries that develop reading comprehension and writing skills! Students will become investigative reporters for the local newspaper. Assigned to 18 "cases," young journalists will piece together the...