Grade Level(s): 6–8
Subject(s): Writing
Program Length: Up to 12 hours
Eligible Funding: Title I, SIG, RTTT, i3, RTI, Promise Neighborhoods, 21st CCLC, GEAR UP, TRIO
Use mentor text to help your middle school
students prepare for test success.
Kaplan Focus on Writing gives your middle school students the skills they need to craft high-scoring responses to writing prompts on standardized tests, including persuasive essays, narratives, responses to pictures, responses to literature, and document-based essays.
- A systematic approach to responding to test-like writing prompts helps your students know what strategies they should use before, during, and after they write.
- Writing opportunities in different genres—including persuasive essays, narratives, responses to pictures, responses to literature, and document-based essays—allow your students to develop writing skills across and within genres.
- Robust notes in the Teacher’s Edition help educators support all student learning, including English Learners and students with special needs.
- Rubrics allow teachers and educators to assess and evaluate student responses to writing prompts.