Writing Activities

Increase your child's reading
comprehension while having fun

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900+ Reproducible Writing Activities--For the beginning or emerging reader through third grade. This two-binder set compliments and is correlated to the Family Readers. It is divided into two 3-ring binders of seventy, 14-page lessons, which include pre- and post-reading assignments, with creative writing and art assignments.

I wished we used the Writing Activities with the Family Readers: They would have drastically increased our daughter's reading comprehension at an early age.
Robert Stevens, President, WriteExpress Corporation

We use the Writing Activities in conjunction with the Family Readers books to improve each student's reading comprehension. We discuss each book and reinforce its meaning with writing activities.
Hester Rippy, Liason for the Lehi, Utah Public Library Literacy Center.

What's Included:

• Reproducible Pages -- Use them over and over again
• Student Dictation
• Write your-own-Stories
• Draw-your-own-Pictures
• Matching & other Activities
• Seventy 14-Page Chapters
• Over 900 Writing Lessons
• Two Loose-Leaf Binders
• Teacher Dictation

Children learn to read faster if they write.

Do children learn to read faster by writing? Absolutely. Many studies show that eye-to-hand writing activities greatly enhance a child's ability to learn to read. The results?

• Better phonics skills.
• Better word recognition.
• Better reading fluency.
• Better ability to capture word meanings.
• Better word background knowledge.

No learn-to-read program is complete without companion writing activities. Simply put, children learn to read faster if they write.

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Not only did the Writing Activities help with students learning to read, it improved their spelling and language skills.
--Second Grade Teacher