Spectrum Writing, Grade 3

by Frank Schaffer Publications

• ISBN13: 9780769652832
• ISBN10: 0769652832
• Edition: Workbook
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-25
• Publisher: Spectrum

Summary

Spectrum Writing Grade 3 helps young learners improve and strengthen their writing skills, such as: Staying on topic, Organizing ideas, Audience, Writing process, Writing stories. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Focusing on Main Ideas
See the Main Idea	p. 5
Add a Title	p. 7
Name a Story/Write a Title	p. 9
Find the Main Idea	p. 11
Build Sentences and Paragraphs	p. 13
Stay on Topic	p. 16
Organizing Ideas
The Writing Process	p. 18
List It	p. 20
Sort Your List	p. 22
Make an Idea Web	p. 24
Make a Time-Order Chart	p. 26
When Did It Happen?	p. 28
Use Spatial Order	p. 30
How Important Is It?	p. 33
Compare It with a Venn	p. 35
How to Compare	p. 37
Writing Your Own Thoughts
Write for You	p. 40
Who Will Read It?	p. 42
Parts of a Friendly Letter	p. 44
Dear Friend	p. 46
Dear Teacher	p. 48
It Happened to Me	p. 50
The Writing Process: Personal Narrative	p. 52
Writing to Inform or Explain
Use Complete Sentences	p. 60
Action!	p. 62
How to Do It	p. 64
Fact or Opinion	p. 66
This Is How It Happened	p. 68
Special Instructions	p. 70
It Is Just Around the Corner	p. 72
Ask the Right Question	p. 74
The Writing Process: News Story	p. 76
Writing to Describe
Use Your Senses	p. 84
Make a Riddle	p. 86
This Is A Room	p. 88
Imagine a Setting	p. 90
Vary Sentence Structure	p. 92
The Writing Process: Descriptive Writing	p. 94
Writing to Entertain
A Story Line	p. 102
Tell Me a Story	p. 104
Make Your Characters Speak	p. 106
Make Up a Simile	p. 108
Tell a Tall Tale	p. 110
The Writing Process: Story	p. 113
Writer's Handbook	p. 121
Answer Key	p. 129
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