Best Teen & Young Adult Composition & Creative Writing
This comprehensive workbook doesn’t stop with focused practice–it encourages children to explore their creative sides by challenging them with thought-provoking writing projects. Color: Grade 8.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"My grandson is not easy to teach!"
"Easy to navigate, solod grammar book."
"Its very thin not enough pages but its excellent for my classes."
"My son enjoys spectrum workbooks.very helpful!"
"Good for Grade 8 for sure, thank you."
"Bought these for my youngest son to bolster skills in LA."
"Excellent with easy to understand directions & worksheets!"
This books gives teens -who go to the movies more than any age group in the world - the tools to do more than just watch those movies. This is exactly the kind of book my fictional characters in Movie Girl (Outskirts Press, 2008) should have had before they started writing their movie!
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I've used this book on so many occasions, and I'll most likely purchase quite a few more copies for the library I work in and organize."
"From the classic story structure, to themes, characters, compelling ideas, conflict, plot, loglines, synopses, screenwriters etiquette to bulletproofing your script for agents and producers. The information, brainstormer ideas and countless numbers of references and websites are priceless in and of themselves."
"Not only does Ms Hamlett present the material in a easy to understand and straightforward way, she follows each of her principles with activities and suggestions to make her points clearer."
"This is a great book for anyone who is starting out and wants to become a screenwriter."
""Screenwriting for Teens..." is a book that provides a simple breakdown of the key elements for writing screenplays."
"This is a very cool, informative and simple book."
"Great ideas that help me understand what goes into the finished product of a movie."
"looks like just the thing for my nephew the budding film maker concise brief."
Here are the ideas, experiments, and inspiration to unfold your imagination and get your writing to flow off the page! Every page springs the imagination into freedom, eagerness, curiosity, the spirit of experimentation, and the power to express the abundant possibilities of both words and world.”—Jane Hirshfield, poet and author of Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry. It's a great resource for writers of all ages—and for teachers of creative writing—who want to put the zing back in their writing.”—Julia Alvarez, author of Return to Sender. Great for an individual writer on their own, and wonderful as a guideline for teachers or home-school parents to inspire young hearts.”— San Francisco Book Review. Realizing that beginning writers often have potential for creativity, yet freeze when faced with the formidable task of constructing a composition, Benke introduces livelihood and fun to the risky process of recording one’s thoughts.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I have discovered a grand book for coaxing the muses out of hiding. It is amazing because it can coax all sorts of muses out from their hiding places. Thank you Ms. Benke for creating and publishing this amazing assortment of muse creators."
"Not everything needs to come planned out; I think this can be a great addition to classroom writing for a teacher willing to put a little thought into it."
"I would highly recommend this book if you are a kid who loves to write, a kid who thinks you don't love to write, a grown-up who still has fun with words, a grown up who thinks he is too old to have fun with words, or really if you are just about anyone."
"As a professional writer I am thrilled to have a resource to encourage writing skills in a fun way for youth and maybe adults too."
"Got this for my 8 year old son who has trouble getting started writing."
"I bought this book seeing the other reviews."
"As an English teacher, this book helped me plan super interesting lessons for my kids."
"I'm an adult, and I love this book."
Best Teen & Young Adult Vocabulary & Spelling
Spectrum(R) Reading workbooks contain focused practice for reading comprehension, including letters and sounds, word recognition, integration of knowledge and ideas, key ideas and details, main idea, story structure, theme, and summarization. Color: Grade 7.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"great for summer school fill in."
"I'm hoping this helps my daughter she was excited to know ibfound her a work book!!"
"Great book and quick Delivery. Thank you. Marie Jax, FL."
"shipping quick, nice products, my son likes these books, thanks."
"Copied too much same material from the grade 6 version."
Best Teen & Young Adult Grammar
This comprehensive workbook doesn’t stop with focused practice–it encourages children to explore their creative sides by challenging them with thought-provoking writing projects. Color: Grade 8.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"My grandson is not easy to teach!"
"Easy to navigate, solod grammar book."
"Its very thin not enough pages but its excellent for my classes."
"My son enjoys spectrum workbooks.very helpful!"
"Good for Grade 8 for sure, thank you."
"Bought these for my youngest son to bolster skills in LA."
"Excellent with easy to understand directions & worksheets!"
Best Teen & Young Adult Films
Inspired by the original Hogwart’s textbook by Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original screenplay marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, author of the beloved and internationally bestselling Harry Potter books. J.K. Rowling is the author of the bestselling Harry Potter series of seven books, published between 1997 and 2007, which have sold over 450 million copies worldwide, are distributed in more than 200 territories and translated into 79 languages, and have been turned into eight blockbuster films by Warner Bros. She has written three companion volumes to the series in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in aid of Comic Relief; and The Tales of Beedle the Bard in aid of her children's charity Lumos.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I did not read this until after I had seen the movie, so I had the visuals playing in my head as I read, down to Newt's awkward lovability and Jacob's wonder."
"Once again Ms. Rowling delivers a fantastical world within our own."
"In whatever form, this world created by JK Rowling will always be amazing."
"Great prequel of Potter universe."
"Huge Potterhead!"
"Fantastic Beasts was exactly what I expected from the author."
"Though I would suggest going to see the movie first, so you can read the screenplay in the characters voices."
"Amazing and exciting story!!"