Download or read book Writing, Grades 5 - 8 written by Barden and published by Mark Twain Media. This book was released on 2010-08-06 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Write on! Write with students in grades 5 and up using Writing: Fundamentals for the Middle-School Classroom. This 128-page book helps students learn how to express themselves through writing. It provides open-ended lessons of personal writing, descriptive writing, short stories, poetry, and reports. This excellent classroom supplement also includes chapters arranged in order of increasing difficulty and activities that allow students to choose their own writing topics. It supports NCTE and IRA standards.