Writing Strands Level 5

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Evaluating Writing

Evaluating Writing is a teacher's guide to evaluating Writing Strands assignments. The manual address some conditions that make hard the teaching of writing: fear and insecurity, motivation, concentration, thinking through ideas, talking about mechanical problems, following directions, not wanting to rewrite, "I don't want to write," proofreading. Also includes common writing problems and how to correct them, using Writing Strands skills in other subjects, appendix, rules for drafting, spelling rules, scope and sequence for Writing Strands and index. Softcover, 96 pages.

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Jensen's Format Writing, Revised

In this age of computers and instant-messaging shorthand, it's vital that your students develop effective writing skills! This comprehensive tool teaches the basic components of expository writing---content, style, organization, and mechanics. Through practical applications including 5-paragraph essays, book reports, business letters, resumes, and major research papers, students learn how to organize and communicate their ideas. Includes tests and answer keys. Grades 8 and up. 160 pages, softcover from Wordsmiths.

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Wordsmith, New Edition, Grades 7-9

Now updated! Developed by homeschool mom and popular novelist Cheaney, this innovative creative writing course takes seventh to ninth graders from learning about basic nouns and verbs to producing finished manuscripts. Easy-to-follow exercises, tips, guidelines, and systematic assignments explore sentence construction, figures of speech, description, narrative, dialogue, point of view, proofreading, revising, and much more. Even experienced writers can benefit! 100 pages, softcover from Common Sense Press.

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Wordsmith Teacher's Edition

Provides teachers the answers to exercises found in Wordsmith. Grades 7-9.

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Comprehensive Composition

Praised by Cathy Duffy as "one of the most concise yet comprehensive books for teaching the writing process available to home educators." From researching a topic to shaping the final essay, Stout's flexible curriculum helps young writers, grades K to 12, develop and hone their descriptive, persuasive, narrative, and expository writing skills. Helpful teaching tips for each type of composition guide you in evaluating your student's progress. 124 pages, softcover from Design-A-Study.

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Writing with a Point Grades 9-12

This book teaches students to write a well-developed paragraph. It focuses on methods to help students narrow a writing topic - brainstorming and observing. The exercises and writing samples model the writing process, teaching students how to express a point of view and support it in a logical, coherent paragraph. Grades 9-12. Softcover, 86 pages.

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99 Ways to Get Kids to Love Writing: And 10 Easy Tips for Teaching Them Grammar

Practical tips and expert advice from an English teacher with more than 25 years of experience! For preschool through high school (and beyond), Leonhardt's invaluable nuggets show you how to teach your children the fundamentals of writing---and make it fun for them. Watch your kids develop into fluent, independent writers! 123 pages, softcover from Random House.

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Writing Skills, Book 2, Grades 7-9

Writing Skills for the Adolescent teaches writing in a series of logical steps and can be used as a teacher's guide for the Writing Skills series or as a foundation for teachers own materials. As students write and improve sentences, they also learn grammar and spelling, generate ideas, compose topic and supporting sentences, use transitional words, and progress from paragraph to essay writing. Sample compositions and an annotated bibliography conclude the book. Writing Skills 1 and 2 present the material and method discussed in Writing Skills for the Adolescent in workbook form. For Grades 4-6, 7-9.

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Research & Writing: Activities That Explore Family History

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The Writer's Toolbox: A Writing & Grammar Handbook for Christian Schools

The Writer's Toolbox covers all eight parts of speech and the seven sentence patterns in detail. It explains grammar, usage and mechanics rules and provides an overview of the writing process and strategies for effective writing. The text discusses research skills such as using the dictionary, using the library and documenting sources in a research paper. Included are up-to-date examples of MLA documentation style and a sample research paper. For use with Grade 9, Second Edition only; optional

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Four Square Writing in the Content Areas, Grades 5-9

When students complain about having nothing to write about, what they really need is the ability to organize and clarify their thoughts around a topic and develop that content into sentences and paragraphs. All the help your students need about writing and learning across the curriculum is in this book.

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Writing, Level 1, Daily Warm-Ups

Ten minutes a day is all it takes to help your 10- to 14-year-olds master the basics of effective non-narrative writing! The 180 prompts included encourage students to stretch their wings in genres such as letter-writing, poetry, editorials, and advertising copy while they review important principles of grammar, punctuation, characterization, audience, and setting. Answers included. 187 reproducible pages, softcover.

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Teaching Writing: Structure and Style (9 DVDs & Workbook)

Winner of multiple awards and recipient of many enthusiastic mom-approved reviews, Institute for Excellence in Writing's Teaching Writing: Structure & Style is a video seminar for teachers/parents that presents a system of structural models and stylistic techniques that work for students of all ages. Stressing modeling and building a firm foundation of basic skills, students practice each format and develop confidence along with creativity.

Six DVDs are included with teacher training, as well as three 2-hour demonstrations of the first step being taught to students at three different grade levels. Simply watch the DVD and present that lesson to the student. The included Binder Workbook contains sample lesson plans, ideas, graphic organizers, support, examples and more information to make teaching as easy as possible.

Included student workshops on DVD also allow for grade-specific information to be taught alongside the nine units: 2nd-4th Graders learn about key word outlines, adverbs and strong verbs; 5th-7th graders learn how to write an outline from a report and dress up their writing with adverbs, noun clauses, strong verbs and more; 8th graders and more advanced students covers key word outlines, note taking, paragraph writing and study skills. See Teaching Writing More Product Information for detailed information on the nine units taught in this program.

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Teaching Writing: Structure & Style 9 DVDs Only

For parents & teachers who already own the Teaching Writing: Structure & Style Teacher Workbook and only need the accompanying DVDs, this set is for you! Containing the nine DVDs needed to teach this curriculum, six DVDs contain the teacher seminar and three present Andrew Pudewa teaching the first lesson to students at three different age levels.

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