Student Workbook - Building Writers 4th Year Handwriting Without Tears Programme

Our Building Writers composition workbooks offer extra practice for writing skills development and can be easily incorporated into a writing block as independent writing or as whole group practice to meet your students' varying needs. Students become better, more fluent writers as they write about cross-curricular topics and practice three writing styles: narrative, information, and opinion.

• Structured practice to build core writing skills
• Developmental approach to writing
• Offers customizable writing templates to fit with any topic
• Builds confident communicators and improves overall communication skills
• Practical application of handwriting skills
• Eliminates the need for worksheets

Building Writers (E)
Fourth Grade students practice three writing styles:

• Narrative: Students write a story with a clear sequence of events; introduce a narrator and characters; enhance the story with dialogue and description; and use a variety of transitional words and phrases to show the order of events
• Information: Students practice clearly introducing a topic; organizing their information into paragraphs and sections; writing facts, definitions, and details about their topic; using topic-specific vocabulary; connecting ideas with linking words and phrases; and writing a conclusion
• Opinion: Students clearly state their opinion and introduction; organize their supporting reasons; write facts and details; clearly connect their opinions and reasons with linking words; and write a conclusion