Writing With Skill, Level 1: Student Workbook (The Complete Writer)

Author: Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher: Peace Hill Press
ISBN: 1942968221
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 702

Book Description
Traditional principles. Contemporary methods. Unparalleled results. This groundbreaking new writing series combines time-tested classical techniques—the imitation and analysis of great writers—with original composition exercises in history, science, biography, and literature. Skills Taught: • One- and two-level outlining • Writing chronological narratives, biographical sketches, descriptions, and sequences across the curriculum • Constructing basic literary essays on fiction and poetry • Researching and documenting source material • First volume of four that will prepare students for high-level rhetoric and composition Features of the program: • Writing assignments are modeled on examples from great literature and classic nonfiction • All source material for assignments is provided—no other books are needed • This Student Workbook encourages independence by directing all assignments to the student • Instructor Text (sold separately) provides scripted dialogue to use when the student has difficulty, plus detailed guidance on how to evaluate the student’s work • First volume of four that will prepare students for high-level rhetoric and composition

Writing With Skill, Level 2: Student Workbook (The Complete Writer)

Author: Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher: Peace Hill Press
ISBN: 1942968248
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 607

Book Description
Time-tested classical techniques--the imitation and analysis of great writers--combined with original composition exercises in history, science, biography, and literature The Student Workbook encourages independent composition, while the Instructor Text contains easy-to-use supporting information for the teacher, rubrics for grading, sample compositions, and dialogue to use while teaching. Together, the Student Workbook and Instructor Text provide a full year of middle-grade writing instruction, preparing students to enter high-level rhetoric. Skills Taught: One- and two-level outlining Writing chronological narratives, biographical sketches, descriptions, and sequences across the curriculum Constructing basic literary essays on fiction and poetry Researching and documenting source material First volume of four that will prepare students for high-level rhetoric and composition Features of the program: Writing assignments are modeled on examples from great literature and classic nonfiction All source material for assignments is provided—no other books are needed This Student Workbook encourages independence by directing all assignments to the student Instructor Text (sold separately) provides scripted dialogue to use when the student has difficulty, plus detailed guidance on how to evaluate the student’s work Second volume of four that will prepare students for high-level rhetoric and composition

Complete Writer Writing with Ease Level 2 Workbook

Author: Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher: Peace Hill Press
ISBN: 1933339292
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 374

Book Description
A new series on teaching writing, from the author of The Well-Trained Mind. In Writing with Ease, Susan Wise Bauer lays out an alternative plan for teaching writing, one that combines the best elements of old-fashioned writing instruction with innovative new educational methods. The workbooks provide lessons, student worksheets, and teacher instructions for every day of writing instruction. Each covers one year of study. Used along with Writing with Ease, Level Two (second in a planned four-volume set) complete the elementary-grade writing curriculum.

The Complete Writer: Writing with Ease Workbook 4

Author: Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher: Peace Hill Press
ISBN: 1933339314
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
A student-friendly supplement to Writing with Ease. This companion text to Writing with Ease walks students, step by step, through the difficult transition into original writing. Scripted, fully-developed lessons equip parents and instructors with all the tools of the professional writing teacher. Selections from classic children's stories are designed to hold the student's attention and fire her imagination, while accompanying exercise allow the young writer to develop her own composition skills. Designed for older elementary students, The Complete Writer: Writing with Ease Workbook 4 builds on the groundwork laid in earlier volumes. Both challenging and reassuring, Workbook 4 begins the all-important preparation for the middle grade years. Grades 3-5.

First Language Lessons for the Well-trained Mind

Author: Jessie Wise
Publisher: Peace Hill Press
ISBN: 1933339446
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
This simple-to-use scripted guide to grammar and composition makes successful teaching easy for both parents and teachers. It uses the classical techniques of memorization, copywork, dictation, and narration to develop a childs language ability in the first years of study.

Writing with Ease

Author: Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher: Peace Hill Press
ISBN: 193333925X
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
"This alternative plan for teaching writing combines the best elements of old-fashioned writing instruction with innovative new educational methods and explains why so many writing programs fail" -- p. [4] of cover.

The Word on College Reading and Writing

Author: Carol Burnell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781636350288
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
An interactive, multimedia text that introduces students to reading and writing at the college level.

Learning to Teach

Author: Gloria Latham
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
Informs pre-service teachers about the culture of the community, the school, home cultures, interests, learning styles and the abilities of their future students. Exercises within the book and the innovative Virtual Classroom website encourage pre-service teachers to watch, record best practice and to draw upon sound theoretical knowledge.

Writing Unleashed

Author: Sybil Priebe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
"Welcome to Writing Unleashed, designed for use as a textbook in first-year college composition programs, written as an extremely brief guide for students, jam-packed with teachers' voices, students' voices, and engineered for fun."--Foreword.

Writing Your Way Through College

Author: Sheryl I. Fontaine
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Writing academic essays in college often seems mysterious to students who do not yet understand the process of developing an idea into a finished piece of reasoned prose. Writing Your Way Through College demystifies that process and enables teachers to help students "invent the university" as they reinvent themselves as proficient writers and rhetorical problem solvers. Writing Your Way Through College offers instructors a set of careful lessons that draw on current disciplinary knowledge in composition and rhetoric. Sheryl Fontaine and Cherryl Smith provide a classroom-centered text that guides students through progressively more complex, evidence-based writing. Writing Your Way Through College offers students and teachers: practical lessons on writing and learning a set of assignments that build incrementally a support system for new instructors accessible information about college writing a flexible approach to the classroom. In a concise, readable format, Writing Your Way Through College offers insights into how individuals negotiate language communities so that students can better master the conventions and rhetorical characteristics of academic writing. A creative and effective template for the teaching of writing, Writing Your Way Through College belongs on every shelf and in every classroom.