Husband and wife team Stephanie and Tom LaBaff explore outer space in DRAW ALIENS AND SPACE OBJECTS IN 4 EASY STEPS. Discover how to draw different astronauts, aliens, vehicles, and space objects. Once your artwork is complete, write a story using the prompts in the book, or make up your own!

This book teaches readers how to plan and write fractured fairy tales. They will discover what a fractured fairy tale is, how to prepare a plot outline, develop characters, revise and edit the story, and write a final draft of the narrative. A variety of activities provide hints and tips along the way to support the development of characters, clear event sequences, plot elements, and the overall creative writing process.

Writing poems can help teach new ways of thinking about words and their meanings. A poet must consider the sound of the words written on the page. Readers will use the activities in this book to develop their poetry writing skills.

Basics Film-Making: Screenwriting is the second in the Basics Film-Making series and is aimed both at students on film production courses, as well as those wishing to write a short film. The book teaches the key elements of screenwriting through examining areas such as dialogue, sound, setting, shots and structure. It also provides advice to new film-makers on how to market their productions. This is an essential guide to screenwriting and will teach the reader to write and produce artistically satisfying shorts.

New addition to the award winning Language Arts Explorer Jr series, this titles teaches students how to write a news article.