Emphasises the understanding of subjects and verbs and develops familiarity with the five steps in the writing process. Chapters cover sentences, personal stories, nouns, instructions, action verbs, poetry, study skills, research reports, pronouns, friendly letters, opinion paragraphs and adjectives. Provides guided practice, independent practice, and review. At the back is the writing handbook containing a dictionary, thesaurus and writing models. Soft bound, 392 pages.