Sharpening Writing Skills: Reading Levels 3-7. Interest Level through Adult. Sharpen your students' ability to write clear, concise, and technically accurate short stories using music and special effects to enhance mental imagery. The self-directing, self-correcting lessons offer numerous opportunities to recognize sentence parts, punctuate accurately, and to correctly structure a paragraph. Skills Covered: nouns and pronouns, verbs, understanding subject and predicate as basic parts of a sentence, verb tenses, correct/verb agreement, use of the verb "to be" verbs with helping words, phrases, dependent-independent clauses, capitalization of proper nouns, abbreviations, quotations, and much, much more. Program incudes: Six lessons on three compact discs or cassettes, 18 reproducible blackline activity sheets and a teacher's guide complete with answer keys and enrichment activities.