Writing and Thinking Skills: Sentence Writing contains a wealth of challenging, stimulating, and necessary writing and thinking skills and strategies for middle-grade students. The wide variety of materials will help both parents and teachers as they work with children of all ability levels. The emphasis in this book is on writing a variety of sentences--simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. This book also features such important skill areas as capitalization, punctuation, combining sentences, and sentence expansion using modifiers. In addition, you will find reproducible practice pages, extension ideas, and student study pages with essential information students can use to guide their writing.