Four Square Writing Series - Total Writing Classroom (Grades 5-9)

Learning basic writing skills can be fun for everyone with The Four Square Writing Method! This step-by-step approach is built around a simple graphic organizer that first shows students how to collect ideas, then helps them use those ideas to create polished prose. Open-ended reproducibles make the technique accessible to all writers. Total Writing Classroom is a great companion activity guide to the Writing Method books.  It provides mini lessons, strategies for troublesome writing habits, and exercises for improving composition.