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 poems, write about famous explorers using provided facts, write stories, and more.

Building Writers D covers the following skills:

• Narrative: Students introduce a narrator and characters; write about an event with an organized sequence; use dialogue description and detail; and provide a sense of closure.
• Information: Students share and explain information (such as facts, definitions, and topic details) by introducing a topic and providing a concluding sentence or paragraph
• Opinion: Students write an introduction that clearly states an opinion, provide clear and organized supporting reasons for the opinion, and write a concluding sentence or paragraph

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

This grade 3 set includes:

• The World According to Humphrey by Betty Birney
• Building Writers D, 86 pages, paperback
• Writing Journal D, 80 pages, paperback