Writing Skills
This book presents young writers with a wide variety of writing activities, all designed to give them practice in skills they meet in the school curriculum. Based on the theme of a holiday, writing tasks include letters, diaries, emails, stories, cartoons and summaries, all presented in a friendly, encouraging format.
Creative Writing
Part of the Usborne Key Skills series that supports the English lessons children learn at school, this book is filled with creative writing activities that help children plan openings, devise characters, structure plots and create engaging stories. Wipe-clean pages offer endless practise, and answers and secret notes for grown-ups are at the back.
Time Tables Practice Book
This handy book has 120 activities that help children practise and perfect their 3, 4, 6 and 8 times tables. The activities get harder throughout the pad, and all the answers are at the back.
Spelling Practice
This handy pad has 140 tear-off sheets packed with activities that help children practise spelling, including adding suffixes to root words and recognising silent letters. The activities get harder throughout the pad, and all the answers are at the back.
Ours is about 3 feet by 3 feet, and on our left is the account's block. The sales block is down the hall.
We're joking. Obviously.
Ours is at least 5 by 5, and on Wednesdays we're allowed to write in coffee shops to maintain the illusion that we're "successful" and "writerly".
Coming up with a write up for the simple sake of a write up does, however, become difficult when we're staring complete lack of creativity right in the face. But apparently asking management to cancel all the deals for the day isn't a viable fix.
As they so delicately put it, it'd be like a comedian having the option to suddenly cancel a show if they're not feeling up to it. Not on our watch, they said. You'll do a write up whether you like it or not, they said. And be funny, they said.
So here we are, doing a write up and being funny.