Composition & Creative Writing, Reference 

When you're faced with writing research reports and essays, this is the book to turn to for successful - and interesting - models and strategies.Students will find tips and models for writing book reports, social studies reports, how-to reports, persuasive essays, and autogiography, and more. In his successful direct, friendly style, Paul Janeczko makes the process of finding ideas, research, writing, revising, and presenting written work clear in this hands-on guide. He includes all the kinds of nonfiction writing kids are expected to master in grades 4 - 6. - from Amzon

Provides strategies for writing successful research reports and essays, including social studies reports, book reports, persuasive essays, personal essays, and descriptive essays.

Research Tip: A Few Words About Encyclopedias --
A Word About Craft: Arranging Details --
Sample Report --
Writing a Social Studies Report --
Research Tip: First-Person Accounts --
Writing About a Person in History --
Research Tip: Biographical Reference Books --
A Word About Craft: Writing a Topic Outline --
Writing About a Social Issue --
A Word About Craft: Showing Both Sides of an Issue --
Research Tip: Periodical Research --
Writing About a Place --
Research Tip: Geography Sources --
A Word About Craft: Combining Sentences --
Writing a How-To Report --
Research Tip: Research Interview --
A Word About Craft: Using Transitional Words --
Writing a Science Report --
Research Tip: Focusing Your Search --
A Word About Craft: Cause-Effect Transitional Words --
Writing a Book Report --
Writing a Summary of a Book --
A Word About Craft: Summarizing --
Writing About a Character in a Book --
A Word About Craft: Sentence Variety --
Writing a Persuasive Essay --
Research Tip: Looking at Subheadings --
A Word About Craft: Tone --
Writing a Problem-Solution Essay --
A Word About Craft: Active and Passive Voices --
Writing About Yourself --
Research Tip: Talking with Family Members --
A Word About Craft: Keeping Related Words Together --
Writing a Descriptive Essay --
A Word About Craft: Modifiers --
Conclusion: Writing in Your Life.