How to Write a 5th Grade (or any other grade) Essay

Writing essays is hard. Kids must organize their ideas, overcome their fear of a blank page of paper, write a good hook, connect their introduction to their conclusion, use transitions and figurative language, vary sentence types, use good vocabulary and revise. How to Write a Fifth Grade (or any other grade) Essay shows kids how to do it all. This how-to book starts where kids start, thinking up an idea, and takes kids through the whole process. Like playing the piano or swimming the butterfly, writing essays takes practice, something kids hate. Right? How to Write a Fifth Grade (or any other grade) Essay takes away the pain by offering a baby-step by baby-step process which kids can follow to write any kind of essay. Plus examples from real students show how other kids do it. Revising is what creates great writing. How to Write a Fifth Grade (or any other grade) Essay takes kids through the revising process. Revising is not finding spelling and apostrophe errors. Revising is rewriting-moving ideas around, adding details, replacing weak verbs with powerful verbs, varying sentence openings and lengths, adding figurative language and leaving readers with a smile. For twenty years, Mrs. Powers has been helping kids write. How to Write a Fifth Grade (or any other grade) Essay collects her practical tips in for elementary, middle and even high schoolers. It's a quick, engaging read for parents and teachers too.


About the Author
Kathleen Powers has been tutoring writing and reading to pre-K through high school students in the northeast Atlanta suburbs for more than 20 years. She also writes two weekly blogs to a growing international audience. EnglishWritingTeacher.com advises how to write better and how to teach writing to children. Comicphonics.com advises adults how to teach reading to little children. Combining her background in teaching in public schools and in colleges with her work as a former daily newspaper reporter and editor, she offers a unique perspective on writing. She holds a Master of Science in Education (M.S.Ed.) degree and has earned certifications in several teaching fields in Georgia.