A fun hands-on way for students to make the connection between pictures and text. Students follow step-by-step drawing lessons and write about the completed pictures. Writing exercises take students from simple to more complex writing tasks.

Here's how to use drawing to motivate writing. There are 30 topics presented in three levels of difficulty, allowing you to customize lessons to student needs. Progress through all three lessons or do only the one most appropriate. Students advance from completing sentences to drafting paragraphs.

Students follow picture directions to draw animals, people, and vehicles. They then write words, then sentences then a paragraph about what they have drawn.

A few of the topics covered include:

• caterpillar
• bird
• mouse
• turtle
• frog
• snail
• elephant
• puppy
• lion
• pickup truck
• koala
• robot
• clown
• helicopter
• duck
• hippo
• race car
• and more

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