My First Learn-To-Write Workbook: Practice for Kids with Pen Control, Line Tracing, Letters, and More! (My First Preschool Skills Workbooks)

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In Year 6, your child will build on their Year 5 handwriting skills and continue to develop fluent, joined-up writing. Read your favorite genre, whether that’s historical fiction, creative nonfiction, or personal essays. Staying motivated: Once you start writing, you will face self-doubt and overwhelm and a hundred other adversaries.

No Plot, No Problem is a “low-stress, high-velocity” guide to writing a novel in just 30 days (yup, it’s great prep for the NaNoWriMo challenge). In Year 3, your child will start developing fluent handwriting skills, making their writing more consistent and easier to read. With suggestions, encouragement, and valuable advice on the many aspects of the writing craft, Goldberg doesn’t shy away from making the crucial connection between writing and adding value to your life. They will become confident with the formation of letters and practice cursive writing, including adding flicks to letters.

If you’re ready to dig into the nuts and bolts of great writing and you want to truly improve at your craft, this book is a master class by a veteran editor, author, and teacher. Part memoir, part guidebook, this Stephen King classic will appeal even to those who avoid his renowned horror-packed tales. Niel Fiore, the author of The Now Habit, says, “There is one main reason why we procrastinate: It rewards us with temporary relief from stress. From punctuation to tricky homophones, passive voice, and commas, the goal of these tools should be to facilitate effective communication of ideas and thoughts.

Session Topics: Chapters Overview, Beginnings and Ends, Lengths, Chapter Structure, Pulling Together. From inventive language and world-building, to crafting unforgettable characters, you'll learn all the tools you need to become a maestro of the written word.

With illustrative examples of both great and not-so-great linguistic constructions, Pinker breaks down the art of writing and gives a gentle but firm nudge in the right direction, towards coherent yet stylish prose.

As you progress through the course, you'll unlock interviews with incredible authors who share their story — and their tips and tricks — with you.Although Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style is a time-honored classic, its prescriptive approach to language isn’t for everyone. A perfect resource for visual learners, this illustrated edition of The Elements of Style has taken the classic style manual to a new, more accessible level but kept its main tenet intact: make every word tell. As well as learning the craft of writing, our courses offer a glimpse into the processes and methods used by some of the world’s most successful authors. A notable magazine, The Paris Review offers 16 in-depth interviews with some of the leading names in the literature world, from novelists to playwrights and poets. Come for the vivid accounts of his childhood and youth — including his extended "lost weekend" spent on alcohol and drugs in the 1980s.