These lessons are a year long answer to increasing your students ability to write well for the timed state test assessment. At the beginning of the year, encourage them to write short quickwrites in 15 minutes. As they get more confident and their writing fluency improves, add group short stories, writing notebook, poetry task cards, fifty-five word mini-fiction, poetry, short story, creative writing, or memoir. A vast variety of writing prompts are included in the bundle of writing lessons.