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 a story based on sequencing illustrations, write about natural disasters using facts given in the page margin, write a story, and more .

Building Writers E covers the following skills:

• 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

The journal is appropriate for fourth grade students and provides a place for strengthening handwriting and creative writing skills during independent writing time. It features narrow double lines - great for copying or journal writing!

This grade 4 set includes:

• The Cricket in Times Square by, George Selden
• Building Writers E
• Writing Journal E, 80 pages, paperback