Writing

http://www.empoweringwriters.com/ is a wonderful resource for teaching writing.

We are learning how to add elaborative detail to our writing. Click below for a great list of sound words!

http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson104/sounds.pdf

We also need transition words:

http://jc-schools.net/write/transition.htm

This is also a great article on revising using the Explosion (adding action, description, feeling):
http://www.learner.org/workshops/middlewriting/images/pdf/W8ReadWriters.pdf