Featuring open-ended lessons for the five most common types of middle-school writing, Writing: Fundamentals for the Middle-School Classroom will help encourage students in grades 5 and up to write every day. This 128-page language arts resource book helps students learn how to express themselves through writing and provides lessons for:personal writingdescriptive writingshort storiespoetry reportsThis classroom supplement also includes chapters arranged in order of increasing difficulty and activities that allow students to choose their own writing topics.Supports Common Core State Standards, NCTE and IRA standards.