Spectrum Writing: Grade 3 »

Our proven Spectrum Writing grade 3 workbook features 136 pages of writing fundamentals. Recently updated to current national standards, including revised sequencing for smooth transition between skills, along with new nonfiction activities. This workbook for children ages 8 to 9 includes activities that reinforce topics to ensure writing proficiency.

Writing skills include:

• Staying on topic

• Organizing ideas

• Audience

• Writing process

• Writing stories

Our best-selling Spectrum Writing series features age-appropriate workbooks for Preschool to grade 8. Developed with the latest standards-based teaching methods that provide targeted practice in vocabulary fundamentals to ensure successful learning!

Focusing on Main Ideas
See the Main Idea     5
Add a Title     7
Name a Story/Write a Title     9
Find the Main Idea     11
Build Sentences and Paragraphs     13
Stay on Topic     16
Organizing Ideas
The Writing Process     18
List It     20
Sort Your List     22
Make an Idea Web     24
Make a Time-Order Chart     26
When Did It Happen?     28
Use Spatial Order     30
How Important Is It?     33
Compare It with a Venn     35
How to Compare     37
Writing Your Own Thoughts
Write for You     40
Who Will Read It?     42
Parts of a Friendly Letter     44
Dear Friend     46
Dear Teacher     48
It Happened to Me     50
The Writing Process: Personal Narrative     52
Writing to Inform or Explain
Use Complete Sentences     60
Action!     62
How to Do It     64
Fact or Opinion     66
This Is How It Happened     68
Special Instructions     70
It Is Just Around the Corner     72
Ask the Right Question     74
The Writing Process: News Story     76
Writing to Describe
Use Your Senses     84
Make a Riddle     86
This Is A Room     88
Imagine a Setting     90
Vary Sentence Structure     92
The Writing Process: Descriptive Writing     94
Writing to Entertain
A Story Line     102
Tell Me a Story     104
Make Your Characters Speak     106
Make Up a Simile     108
Tell a Tall Tale     110
The Writing Process: Story     113
Writer's Handbook     121
Answer Key     129