This book provides pre-writing strategies, guides, and model exemplars across 7 writing genres. Sections include Recounting (time lines, recounting the news or an event); Describing (an event or an object); Procedure (flow charts and sequencing): Reporting (characteristics grids and brainstorming); Explaining (using a sketchboard); Arguing (creative problem solving); Discussing and Assessment. Grades 4 to 8.