Complementing the Handbook, the Grade 2 SkillsBook provides more practice for honing editing and proofreading skills and activities focused on building better sentences. The primary focus is punctuation, grammar and usage, abbreviations, capitalization, and spelling.
The Write Away SkillsBook is filled with fun language activities that help your students improve the correctness of their writing. These lessons complement the writing units in the Write Away student handbook, allowing your students to learn grammar skills and apply them immediately in their revising and editing. You'll find 160 pages devoted to practice activities covering these conventions of language:
Make sure to order a Write Away SkillsBook Teacher's Edition so that you will have all the answers.
Each SkillsBook activity includes a brief introduction to the topic and examples showing how to complete the activity. Cross-references to the "Proofreader's Guide" in Write Away help your students find more rules and examples to improve their use of language conventions. Your students will also get extensive practice in combining sentences and using the parts of speech (noun, pronoun, verb, and so on).
The Write Away Student Handbook from Thoughtful Learning provides age-appropriate lessons to teach elementary students the writing process, from prewriting through revising and editing. Sentences and paragraphs are taught, as well as the forms of writing. Students also learn how to use the library and computer to find information, read graphics and contractions, use a glossary, and more. A free Digital Teacher Guide is available on the publisher’s website. This valuable resource includes a scope and sequence, activity worksheets and handouts, guides for assessing student writing, and a weekly schedule that aligns lessons to the Write Away SkillsBook. The consumable SkillsBook offers more practice on creating better sentences, as well as editing and proofreading skills. Practice in punctuation, grammar and usage, abbreviations, and capitalization are also included. Sold separately, the Write Away SkillsBook Teacher Guide provides reduced student pages with answers. The Write Away Package includes the Student Handbook, SkillsBook, and the SkillsBook Teacher Guide.
