Virginia Pong

Writing Virginia Pong

Writing: A Sixth Grade Program was developed to meet an obvious lack of student ability to write clear, well-organized, and understandable assignments needed for school, college, career, and life; it is successful across a broad spectrum of student ability. Student writing resulting from assignments in this book won as many as five of the six district-wide awards given in the annual writing festival held each spring for the school district's fourteen elementary schools. A sell-out at the California State Conference for Gifted and Talented Education, Writing: A Sixth Grade Program provides teachers and parents an excellent framework on which to build student grammar and writing development in both language arts and content areas. Each writing assignment includes teaching notes, student guidelines, and real student samples. A yearlong strand of basic grammar instruction (and how to test) and a seventeen page student reference/study section are provided in this inclusive program.