Books with author Brenda A. Van Dixhorn

180 Days of Writing is an easy-to-use resource that provides second-grade students with practice in writing opinion, informative/explanatory, and narrative pieces while also strengthening their language and grammar skills. Centered on high-interest themes, each two-week unit is aligned to one writing standard. Students will interact with mentor texts during the first week and then apply their learning the next week by practicing the steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Daily practice pages make activities easy to prepare and implement as part of a classroom morning routine, at the beginning of each writing lesson, or as homework. Genre-specific rubrics and data-analysis tools provide authentic assessments that help teachers differentiate instruction. Develop enthusiastic and efficient writers through these standards-based activities correlated to the Common Core and other state standards.

Children will love analyzing these hilarious books about a silly Pigeon who tries to get away with too much! The Pigeon Books: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides fun, challenging activities and lessons that will teach students how to analyze and comprehend story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and much more. This guide is the perfect tool to add rigor to students' exploration of literature, and aid students in analyzing and comprehending these silly stories.