Focused Practice for Writing Mastery © Writing a story Writing to inform Writing an opinion © Using the writing process © Writer's HandbookSupport your child’s educational journey throughout the year! For over 35 years, Carson-Dellosa has provided quality educational products that help children excel at school and home. cv vi Ss Skills & Enrichment! Summer Readiness | cfandards | Testing Replcnion Learning Supporting | Providing your eee gn | child with the | Extending your] Keeping your * essential skills | child's learning | child's skills Preparing your child for | yo oe the upcoming - and strategies | with real-world | sharp all skill-based | “tor test-day | applications | summer long school year practice success Carson-Dellosa—your partner in education from PreK through 8" grade Cue Ro)SPECTRUM Writing Kindergarten Published by Spectrum® an imprint of Carson-Dellosa Publishing LLC Greensboro, NC‘Spectrum® is an imprint of Carson-Dellosa Publishing. Printd in the United States of America. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act, no part ofthis publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior witten permission from the publisher, unless otherwise indicated. Spectrum@® isan imprint of Carson- Dellosa Publishing, © 2015 Carson-Dellosa Publishing ‘Send all inquiies to: Carson-Dellosa Publishing PO, Box 95665 Greensboro, NO 27425 ISBN 978-1-4898-1484-1Table of Contents Iiste(irefelat girl eating ice ‘cream cone X ‘ou patron tal a abou your Gay. raw what yOu Wa pom ‘nd ae ite he oder anser sah soko y- Drawings will va U6 Terabe’ a day when you hod tn Grawa petro hho Box Drawings will vory Tank bau tha day you wise sau on page W. What happened? Dasvou go tea sees pac8? Da you Hoy aores? ‘reach tox. daw a pctv of one ing Yu son hat So. lo ‘ence new he ete. 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