Mastering Short Response Writing Kit, Grade 4 ― Claim It! Cite It! Cement It!

Build confident, capable writers who own the concrete skills necessary to excel at composing evidencebased expository or argumentative short responses. In order to succeed on standardized tests and a wide range of writing assignments that call for writing to a prompt, students must control the content and mechanics of a logically structured, grammatically correct paragraph. California Teacher of the Year award winner and celebrated trade author Alan Sitomer outlines the Triple C writing system – a sequence of writing steps that helps students, grades 2-6, write concisely and convincingly in response to a prompt. Mastering Short Response Writing is a particularly effective instructional tool for raising the skill sets of low performing writers.

Alan Lawrence Sitomer is a California Teacher of the Year award winner and the founder of The Writer’s Success Academy. He’s a former inner-city high school English teacher and professor in the Graduate School Of Education at Loyola Marymount University. Sitomer is an inspirational keynote speaker who specializes in engaging underperforming students. He has authored 16 trade books with works ranging from hard-hitting YA novels like Caged Warrior and Homeboyz to humorous and warm children’s picture books such as Daddies Do It Different and Daddy’s Zigzagging Bedtime Story. He’s also the author of several professional books and curricular resources for educators including The Alan Sitomer Book Jam.