Tracking the Way for Beginning Writers
Created for Lower Elementary Students
Write More has developed a series of products designed to work together to create a unique and fun atmosphere for writing in your classroom!
Write More wants your students to think of writing time as a fun, motivating time in the day. As your students tie on their Ranger bandanas, their creative juices will flow. From the Ready Writes teacher handbook filled with ideas to the student portfolio and game board, your students will work hard to become Writing Rangers! 
Our classroom poster keeps the Ranger theme flowing by awarding students stars for each writing they complete and our achievement pads and Ranger sticker badges encourage Rangers to keep up their good work! Write More understands that the more your kids write, the more their writing strategies and skills improve. We want your kids to want to write!
The Ranger Classroom Set
The Ranger Classroom Set is designed to create a unique atmosphere for developing writers that encourages and teaches writing skills and strategies. This product set creates a classroom environment that makes writing fun for students and for teachers. Everything you need to teach writing for the entire year is included.
- Ready Writes! Activities Book
- 25 Ranger Writing Portfolios
- 25 Ranger Bandanas
- Woody Writes Activity Cards Set
- Wacky Ranger Writes! Board Game
- Everyday Organizer Poster
- Wanted: Writing Rangers Incentive Poster
- 4 Ranger Achievement Pads
- Ranger Author’s Chair Cowboy Hat
- 100 Ranger Star Stickers
- 50 Motivational Pencil Grips
- 250 Poster Stars
- The Complete Teacher Resource Guide and Product Manual with ready-to-copy pullouts and transparencies
| Ranger Classroom Set | $359.95 |
Ranger Grade Level Set
This set includes four Ranger Classroom Sets
| Ranger Grade Level Set | $1,299.95 |
Ready Writes!
Alma Hoffmann’s latest series of writing activities developed to inspire and improve young writers! The activities in this book focus on a variety of writing strategies and topics such as:
- Setting
- Character Development
- Signs
- Story Order
- Rhymes
- Poetry
- Labeling
- Expression
- Descriptions
- Simple Narratives
- Synonyms
- Voice
- AND MUCH MORE!
This book is designed to guide and lead your Writing Rangers to writing independence with 100 pages of writing activities.
| Ready Writes! Book | $13.95 |
Ranger Writing Portfolio
This pocketed, heavy-duty portfolio is the ideal tool for developing and guiding young writers. Sections include creative writing topics, great opening sentences, exact word choice, commonly misspelled words and much more. Use the portfolio to guide your writing lessons. The more you use it and model its use for students, the more they will refer to it.
These portfolios are also the ideal take home writing tool to keep teachers, students and parents focused on the same key points in any writing assignment.
| Five-Pack | $15.95 | |
| Box of 50 | $99.95 |
Ranger Teacher Resource Guide and Product Manual
This all-inclusive teacher manual will provide teaching instruction, hints, suggestions and ideas to enhance and complete your writing curriculum. The sturdy 3-ring binder protects your reproducible pullouts and allows you to move things around and to add materials easily. Instructions for using all of the Explorer Write More products are found in this teacher guide and are easy to read so you can begin using them immediately. You will find many uses for our ready-to-copy pullouts as you use them in all subject areas. Included you will find:
- Ready Writes! Guide
- Ranger Portfolio Guide
- Everyday Organizer Guide
- Ranger Rubric Guide
- My Conference Record Guide
- Ranger Poster Guide
- Ranger Board Game and Woody Writes Guide
- Ranger Incentives Guide
- Everyday Organizer reproducible pullout and transparency
- Ranger Rubric reproducible pullout and transparency
- My Conference Record reproducible pullout
- Decorative Border reproducible pullouts
- Much, much more!
The Ranger Teacher Guide is not for sale, but is included with the Ranger Classroom Set
Everyday Organizer
Use this organizer to guide your students as they think through their writing ideas. The organizer can be used to teach how to write a complete paragraph or story. The student charts his main idea, the three supporting sentences or paragraphs and three details or adjectives for each sentence or paragraph. This organizer helps students see the progression of a paragraph or story and see that each part needs supporting details.
This is a great tool for integrating with social studies and science research reports.
Everyday Organizer Ready-To-Copy Pullout Included in the Explorer Teacher Guide
| Pad of 50 Sheets | $4.95 | |
| 5 Pads | $23.95 |
Everyday Organizer Overhead Transparency
| 5-Pack | $14.95 | |
| 20-Pack | $49.95 |
My Conference Record
This useful record sheet is designed for the student to take notes of each writing conference with the teacher. The record allows the student to note the following:
- The date of each conference
- The topic or title of the writing assignment
- Areas to add details to the writing or areas it may need to be shortened
- Any other suggestions discussed during this conference that need to be addressed before the student writes his final draft.
My Conference Record Ready-To-Copy Pullout included in the Explorer Teacher Guide
| Pad of 50 Sheets | $4.95 | |
| 5 Pads | $23.95 |
Ranger Writing Rubric
The Ranger Writing Rubric teaches your students how to become independent writers. The rubric has ten important writing objectives that students need to learn to include each time they write. Objectives #1-8 focus on writing content and #9-10 focus on writing mechanics. This rubric can be changed each time a student writes depending on which objectives a students wants to focus on.
Have the student place a check on the line to the left of each objective that he is focusing on for a particular writing. Then ask the student to decide how many points each checked objective should be worth. You can also use the objectives on the rubric as mini lesson topics.
This rubric makes grading a story much easier for the teacher and undestandable for the student.
Ranger Rubric Ready-To-Copy Pullout included in the Explorer Teacher Guide
Ranger Rubric Overhead Transparency
| 5-Pack | $14.95 | |
| 20-Pack | $49.95 |
Achievement Pads
Reward your students for writing improvement with these quick and easy-to-use achievement pads. Positive reinforcement encourages students to keep working hard and improving their writing skills and strategies. Find something positive in a student’s writing and make note of it on a page from this pad.
Each sheet has been designed so that your students can color, decorate and personalize it. It will be a masterpiece on their home refrigerator and a source of encouragement!
| 5-Pack Achievement Pads | $14.95 | |
| 20-Pack Achievement Pads | $54.95 |
Wanted: Writing Rangers Poster
Wanted: Writing Rangers is the perfect poster to encourage young writers. Write each student’s name on the poster and each time the student publishes a story or paper, place a sticker next to his name. Offer students incentives like an extra 10 minutes of recess, a free homework pass or free center pass once he has earned five stickers. As a teacher, you decide when a paper is considered "published." Has the student written a rough draft and revised and edited it? Has the student copied over a final draft and displayed it for others to read? Use this poster as a positive incentive to encourage all students to want to be a part of the Writing Rangers!
| Ranger Incentive Poster | $6.95 |
Foil Star Stickers
Each foil star is self-adhesive and comes in a convenient re-sealable package.
| 250-Pack Foil Star Stickers | $4.95 |
Everyday Organizer Poster
The Write More Everyday Organizer Poster is designed to guide students as they think through story ideas. It should be hung in a central location where all students can easily see it and it should remind them to organize their thoughts before starting to write. The organizer can be used to teach how to write a complete paragraph or story. The student charts his main idea, the three supporting sentences or paragraphs and three details or adjectives for each sentence or paragraph. This organizer helps students see the progression of a paragraph or story and see that each part needs supporting details.
| Everyday Organizer Poster | $6.95 |
Ranger Woody Writes
Ranger Woody Writes are a series of quick, fun activities designed to get students generating writing ideas. Eighteen activity cards are teamed with our plush Woody Pencilman to create an exciting and unique method for learning writing skills. Each activity can be done orally or it can be a writing or drawing activity for students to do alone or with a friend.
Use the cards many times so that students get more comfortable with the activities and encourage more and more detail each time an activity is repeated.
| Ranger Woody Writes Set (plush and cards) | $19.95 | |
| Ranger Woody Writes Cards | $9.95 | |
| 9" Plush Woody Pencilman | $12.95 |
Wacky Ranger Writes! Board Game
Get your students' creative juices flowing with this entertaining spin game! This board game can be played several different ways. It is designed to teach students to quickly compose witty, complex sentences. The games that can be played on this board will push students to create sentences with several creative words.
The game board has 16 color-coded words listed on it. There are 5 green nouns, 5 blue verbs, 4 yellow adjectives and 2 red adverbs. The games are designed to be used as a whole class with the teacher spinning each time or it can be used in small groups or centers with the students taking turns and spinning. Writing fun is just a spin away with Wacky Ranger Writes!
| Wacky Ranger Writes! Board Game | $12.95 |
Ranger Writing Bandanas
Tie’em up, Writing Rangers! Give each student a Writing Ranger bandana to tie around his neck to feel like a true Writing Ranger! Set the stage for creative, fun ideas with an atmosphere of adventure and make believe! As you hand out the bandanas, tell your students that they are now empowered and ready to create all types of stories. A Writing Ranger works to stay focused, uses sharp ideas and writes complete sentences. Keep the bandanas at your desk with you until writing time and then hand them out as you create a fun environment for daily writing.
| 5-Pack Bandanas | $18.95 | |
| 25-Pack Bandanas | $85.95 |
Author’s Chair Cowboy Hat
Saddle yourself into the Writing Ranger Author’s Chair proudly wearing this cowboy hat. Students will look forward to sharing aloud their stories or journals when they get to wear this hat.
| Writing Ranger Author’s Chair Cowboy Hat | $9.95 |
Ranger Star Badge Stickers
Howdy Pardner!!! How did you earn that shiny badge? Your Writing Rangers will beam with pride when they earn the right to wear this gleaming badge sticker. There are many ways for your Rangers to earn the right to wear these badges. The badges can also be placed directly on the Ranger’s paper or story to hang proudly in the hallway or on mom’s refrigerator.
| 25-Pack Ranger Star Stickers | $5.95 |
Motivational Pencil Grips
These 1 3/4" long Motivational Pencil Grips are triangular shaped and come in five vibrant colors. These pencil grips also come with motivational words on the side of each grip. "Write On!", "Super Duper" and "Super Star" and more are phrases that will motivate young writers to do their best.
| 25-Pack Pencil Grips | $11.95 |
The Ranger Limited Edition Classroom Set
The Ranger Limited Edition Classroom Set includes a line of Ranger curriculum writing products. The set consists of the Ready Writes! Activities Book, 25 Ranger Writing Portfolios, an Everyday Organizer Pad and Transparency, a Conferencing Pad, a Ranger Rubric made-to-copy sheet and Transparency, two Decorative Border Writing Pads and the Limited Edition Teacher Resource Guide.
| Ranger Limited Edition Classroom Set | $99.95 |
The Ranger Limited Edition Grade Level Set
The Ranger Limited Edition Grade Level Set includes all that your school will need for up to four classrooms. This set includes four Ready Writes! Activities Books, 100 Ranger Writing Portfolios, four Everyday Organizer Pads and Transparencies, four Conferencing Pads, four Ranger Rubric made-to-copy sheets and Transparencies, eight Decorative Border Writing Pads and four Limited Edition Teacher Resource Guides.
| Ranger Limited Edition Grade Level Set | $349.95 |
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