AHarrington

In the second section of Craft Lessons, the authors provide a large quantity of mini lessons to help students become better writers. The main focus of these mini lessons is incorporating literary elements into the student's own personal writing. These lessons help the student see the importance of finding his/her own voice, understanding setting, and utilizing sensory details. They also stress the importance of a student's work having a clear beginning, middle, and ending. The parts of speech are just a list of memorized terms until the student actually begins to make connections with his/her own writing. Grammar becomes a tool to make writing better when children examine its elements in their compositions. This book is very helpful because the ideas for the minilessons are right here in this section of the book.