This Handwriting Without Tears "Reading and Writing Boost" kit features favorite reading and writing materials perfect for use during the schoolyear or as a "boost" over the summer break. Each bundle comes individually packaged with instructions and resources needed to improve literacy skills.

The Learning without Tears Building Writers composition workbook series offers extra practice for developing writing skills. Students become better, more fluent writers as they write about cross-curricular topics and practice narrative, information, and opinion-based writing styles. Simple black-and-white illustrations are paired with age-appropriate writing prompts that ask students to write facts about animals, to write a story, write an opinion essay, copy sentences, and more.

Building Writers B covers the following skills:

• Narrative: writing a story in order with details and an ending
• Information: writing topic sentences, facts about their topic, and an ending
• Opinion: writing an introduction that states their opinion, reasons that support their opinion, and a conclusion

The journal is appropriate for first grade students and provides a place for strengthening handwriting and creative writing skills during independent writing time. It includes regular double lines plus space for drawing.

This grade 1 set includes:

• Do Like Kyla by, Angela Johnson
• Building Writers B, 86 pages, paperback.
• Writing Journal B, 80 pages, paperback.