10 Great Reasons to Buy Stack the Deck Composition Books

1. Make learning "enjoyable" and build self-esteem with oral language activities. Your children will write their own sniglets, create new verbs, play with idioms... Want to know what a sniglet is? Give us a call. Ever hear of a ZRBTT???
2. Use a child friendly vocabulary to teach sentence writing skills. These common sense words will help you teach your children to revise - guaranteed.
3. Help your children include more details by using journalistic questions to expand.
4. Provide practical activities (mini-lessons) before each prompt to help them include similes, personification, colorful words, etc. in their writing.
5. Include simple strategies to help writers identify and correct common mistakes, e.g., fragments and run-ons. You'll love our I BELIEVE THAT tip!
6. Teach the major modes of writing: narration, description, exposition, persuasion, and occasionally some literary analysis papers.
7. Follow a step-by-step process for each writing assignment.
8. Include grading sheets for each major writing prompt to make your job easier.
9. Help writers remain "focused" by providing specially designed think sheets as a prewriting activity.
10. Provide practical revision strategies to help writers identify repetitious sentence beginnings, "I," "I," "And then," "And Then," "The," "The," etc. or shift in tenses from present to past back to present, plus... Your children will learn to revise using our famous SOS Sheet.
11. Support the National Council of Teachers of English Research Findings in writing.
12. Reasonably priced composition books for all levels.

(Okay, there are more than 10 reasons. We fibbed.)

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