Complementing the writing units in the Student Handbook, students receive additional instruction and practice through age-appropriate activities. Activities include proofreading for punctuation, mechanics, spelling and correct word usage along with additional practice writing better sentences through combining and varying sentence beginnings. Grammar and Usage practice pages are also included. Although the Grade 4 and 5 SkillsBooks rely on the same Student Handbook, there are different activities and topics covered.
The Writers Express Skillsbook for grade 4 is filled with fun language activities that help your students improve the correctness of their writing. These lessons complement the writing units in the Writers Express student handbook, allowing your students to learn grammar skills and apply them immediately in their revising and editing. You'll find more than 180 pages devoted to practice activities covering these conventions of language:
Make sure to order a Writers Express SkillsBook Teacher's Edition (Grade 4) 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 Writers Express 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, correcting sentence errors (run-ons, comma splices, fragments, and so on), and using the parts of speech (noun, pronoun, verb, and so on).
Available as a softcover or hardcover, the Writer’s Express Handbook helps 4th and 5th graders improve their writing skills and overall fluency. One Student Handbook is used in both grades 4 and 5, with unit lessons building from basic to more advanced throughout the year. As appropriate, there are two levels of assignments provided: Beginning (grade 4) and Advanced (grade 5). A Digital Teacher Guide is available at no cost from the publisher’s website. This valuable resource provides a weekly schedule, activity worksheets and handouts, guidelines for writing assessments, and more. It also aligns lessons from the optional Writer’s Express SkillsBooks for Grade 4 and Grade 5. Consumable Writer’s Express SkillsBooks provide additional instruction and practice in grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Although the Grade 4 and 5 SkillsBooks rely on the same Student Handbook, the activities vary, with more advanced exercises in Grade 5. Each SkillsBook has a grade-level Teacher Guide, sold separately. Teacher Guides include the answers only. For your convenience, we offer softcover and hardcover grade-level packages that include the Handbook, SkillsBook, and Teacher Guide: Grade 4 Softcover Package, Grade 4 Hardcover Package, Grade 5 Softcover Package, and Grade 5 Hardcover Package.
