Students create brochures on the same topic as another piece of writing they have done, highlighting how shifting purposes and audiences creates changes in their strategies as writers.

After exploring several question and answer books on a variety of topics, students research a topic and create their own class question and answer book.

In this lesson, students use a scaffold to help them compile information to write a solid research paper.

Students compare the traits fact and fiction by using a Venn diagram to compare fiction and nonfiction books about Native Americans.

Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.

Special edition! Students use ReadWriteThink tools to create magazines about prominent figures using a variety of writing genres and styles.

Students gather factual information about frogs and toads to create nonfiction and fiction stories. Drawing is used for prewriting.

Striking images can leave lasting impressions on viewers. In this lesson, students make text–self–world connections to a nature- or science-related topic as they collaboratively design a multimedia presentation.