The author's goal in writing this series is to "instill a love of great literature in children, expand their ability to read intelligently and deeply, improve their communication abilities, and prepare them for more advanced language arts concepts." The three key components to this series are literature, grammar and mechanics, and composition.

The Teacher Guide provides scripted questions for comprehension with answers, teaching tips, and daily schedules. You'll need something else for teaching spelling, learning to read, and penmanship.

The Student Workbook explains the lesson's concept for the child and includes Reading Journal Pages, Dictionary Pages, and Sentence Puzzle Pages. Workbook answers are in the Teacher's Guide. The Workbook and Guide can be purchased separately, in a set together, or in two different packs, one with and one without Random House Book of Poetry for Children. You'll need something else for teaching spelling, learning to read, and penmanship.

Third grade students, or those working at that level, easily transition from printing to cursive with cursive warm-ups. Includes activity pages featuring paragraphs, poems, composition, and cross-curricular lessons. 

Writing for Learning: Beginning Cursive Writing for third grade provides students with a detailed introduction to cursive basic strokes, letters, joinings, and numerals.

• Students trace and write basic strokes, letters, joinings, and numerals.

• Cursive word and sentence models help students learn proper spacing.

• Every lowercase cursive letter page includes joining models to help students learn how to properly connect letters.

• Check-ups encourage students to self-evaluate their work so they can recognize and immediately correct errors.

Notes: This is a parent-intensive spelling curriculum.

Third grade students practice three writing styles:

• 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 Writing With Ease Level 3 workbook provides all of the copywork assignments, comprehension questions, and reading passages that you’ll need for a full year of writing study.

Using passages and sentences from classic children’s literature, the Level 3 Workbook allows young writers to practice their skills while absorbing the style and grace of great authors. Charming illustrations add a visual element that will spark your child’s imagination.

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This highly-effective 96-page book teaches narrative (personal and story), opinion, and informative/explanatory writing as a 5-step process. The 5-step process is made up of Prewriting, Drafting, Revising, Editing, and Publishing. The step-by-step lessons use examples and easy-to-understand concept maps that teach brainstorming, planning, editing, and revising. Each lesson is followed by practice that includes a simple, time-saving scoring rubric.   Click to learn more.

The Student Workbooks contain 20 lessons each with fifteen words. Each lesson includes a Word List with complete dictionary type of entry information, a Finding Meanings exercise (choose two phrases to form a sentence that correctly uses a word), the Just the Right Word exercise (replace a phrase with a single word), an Applying Meanings exercise (using words in context), a Word Study exercise (covers synonyms, antonyms, suffixes, prefixes, and analogies), and a Passage (classic and contemporary authors) with follow-up questions.  Click to learn more.