Book excerpt: Offers a step-by-step process to improve students? Writing skills using research-based graphic organizers. More than 60 Writing prompts review the five communication processes: Narration, Description, Directions, Explanation, and Persuasion. Students write to the 11 modes of Writing: summary, fictional narrative, personal experience narrative, informational report, letter, invitation, thank-you note, letter to the editor, directions, persuasive paper, and journal.