This Balanced Writing program places writing at the heart of language arts and highlights the interaction between writing and the language arts (i.e., oral language, reading, and listening).

Get Writing!! Book 1: Sentences & Mechanical Control, Gr. 2–3 is the third book in the six-book Get Writing!! series, which presents lessons sequentially within and among the grade levels for the entire school year.

The Get Writing!! series provides writing lesson plans for an entire school year for grades K–5. Each lesson gives helpful hints and shows how to conduct each activity. Balanced Writing instruction focuses specific attention on balancing content, process, and time components of writing with learning to write well. The result is a successful and teacher-friendly method that helps students become mature writers. In addition to daily writing activities, each Get Writing!! book contains weekly, monthly, and one-year plans.

Features
• Every book contains overviews and objectives for each lesson, bulleted procedures for conducting each lesson, and daily activities.
• Applications for across the curriculum and for English-language learners are included.
• Corresponding reproducible student activity sheets for each lesson are provided.
• Each book contains assessment procedures for evaluating student progress.
• Month- and year-long calendars and instructions for incorporating the curriculum into lesson plans save valuable preparation time.