Good writers don't wing it-they exercise a plethora of skills. They list, picture, circle, strategize, and revise to make language come alive. They know what to use and when. Like ace athletes, they are highly trained, well-versed in the techniques found in this lively book. Writing Workouts provides a method for instruction that gives students the fun they want and the targeted skill practice they need. Slinky paragraphs, pop-up poems, paint chip plotting, and many other activities get the serious business of teaching critical and creative writing done. Author Rebecca G. Harper shows you how to use the method systematically, so writing is tied to relevant lessons and standards. Help students learn to Hone skills in persuasive writing, argument, fiction, poetry, memoir, and more, Toggle between brief and multistep writing tasks to build stamina (and not hyperventilate when faced with complex compositions), Tap into auditory, visual, kinesthetic, and digital components of crafting, Think about word-, sentence-, and para graph-level techniques, Jump the high jumps of research writing by getting good at each smaller leap Students in middle school and high school often feel they are forever sprinting toward a high-stakes writing task. With Writing Workouts, you'll help students crowd out stress with a strength-training approach to success.