Four Square: Writing in the Content Areas for Grades 1-4:

When you give a writing assignment do your students respond with, I have nothing to write about? Obviously, there are plenty of topics available.  What your students need isn't topics, but the skill of organizing and clarifying their thoughts around a topic and developing that content into sentences and then paragraphs.  You'll find all the help you and your students need about writing and learning across the curriculum in this book.