Author Paula Jensvold shares her classroom-tested ways for teaching children how to write for different purposes. Through clear step-by-step mini-lessons and sample student-teacher dialogues she demonstrates how to introduce children to must-know forms of real-life writing including lists signs and labels how-to procedures messages ads cards e-mails letters and thank-you notes and then provides practice activities for each writing form. Includes ideas for differentiated learning reproducible practice pages and suggested book lists to connect with each type of writing. 1. Teacher-tested lessons based on current research 2. Explicit instruction in must-know forms of real life writing 3. Writing forms include lists signs and labels how-to procedures phone messages ads e-mails cards letters and thank-you notes 4. Student-teacher dialogues serve as teaching models 5. Ideas for differentiated learning 6. Suggested book lists correlate with different writing forms 7. Practice pages let children apply what they learn