Teaching Writing: Structure and Style

9 Dvd's and Teaching Syllabus

This seminar shows the teacher how to incrementally teach writing to students.

Excellence in Writing gives you tools to help you teach not just WHAT to write, but HOW to write-in a way that is organized and stylish-GUARANTEED!

The seminar is a 2 day seminar presented on 6 DVD's. Don’t watch the entire seminar before starting, just watch a disc and begin teaching right away. The program includes a seminar notebook, sample lesson plans and three bonus DVD's presenting the first lesson to students at various grade levels. Use this program to learn to teach writing from second grade through High School. 

I spent the first 8 years of homeschooling looking for a writing curriculum that worked with my children. I tried numerous programs and had been disappointed with them all until I found IEW' Writing: Structure and Style. It has fulfilled all my personal requirements.

It's broken down into easy-to-follow, logical steps - it's very concrete. It teaches simple outlining and note-taking first, a key skill in mental organization and preparing a coherent written work. Then it progressively teaches the student to use their outlines to construct a well-written paper, one paragraph at a time. By having very specific goals to achieve it matches the mental process of writing - taking abstract ideas and making them into a concrete written work.

I had always thought that writing should be learned, not in isolation as a separate subject, but in the course of using it to do actual writing about topics that interest the child. IEW is designed to be incorporated with other school subjects, particularly history, science and literature. The goal for each child is to gradually achieve writing independence. 

Types of writing taught with this program are:

• note taking and outlining

• summarizing from notes

• summarizing a reference

• library research reports

• essay writing

• summarizing narrative stories

• writing from pictures

• creative writing,

• critiques

 $169.00

Ancient History-Based Writing Lessons

Provides everything you need to teach progressively through all nine units of the IEW syllabus, plus some poetry, grammar and vocabulary. Themes focus on six major ancient civilizations: Sumer, Egypt, Israel, Babylon, Greece, and Rome. The student book contains the lesson instructions, engaging source texts, detailed checklists, student samples, and vocabulary cards. The teacher's manual includes tips for creatively teaching each lesson, sample whiteboards for successful outlining and brainstorming vocabulary quizzes, tips for grammar instruction, and more.

Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons

These lesson plans allow teachers to improve student writing strength and depth with Medieval History content. Twenty-seven weekly lessons incrementally teach all the IEW models of structure and elements of style. Easy-to-follow instructions, source texts, and checklists are included for two levels of students: elementary and junior high. Includes all teacher and student materials. 144 pages plus 64 vocabulary cards.
 

$25.00 Student Workbooks

$35.00  Student Workbooks

U.S. History-Based Writing Lessons, Volume One
Explorers to the Gold Rush

This text covers all nine units of the IEW syllabus, integrating structure, style, grammar, and vocabulary. The student book contains all of the student pages, including assignment instructions for each lesson, engaging source texts, blank outlines, detailed checklists, sample student essays, and vocabulary cards. The teacher's manual includes tips for creatively teaching each lesson, sample class whiteboards to ensure successful brainstorming, review games, vocabulary quizzes, and answers for both the vocabulary quizzes and the grammar exercises.

U.S. History-Based Writing Lessons, Volume Two
Civil War Era to Present

Intended to follow U.S. History-Based Writing Lessons, Volume 1, but may be used by any 8th-10th grade student alrady familiar with the basic IEW method. These lessons review and practice the IEW method as they also teach more advanced writing skills such as thesis statements, MLA format, persuasive writing, and more. High school students and teachers may want to choose to do Volumes 1 & 2 in the same year. The Student Book contains all of the student pages, including assignment instructions for each lesson, engaging source texts, blank outlines, detailed checklists, sample student essays, and vocabulary cards.

$25.00 Student Workbooks

$25.00 Student Workbooks

The Elegant Essay Writing Lessons

Piece by piece, The Elegant Essay walks students through the entire essay-building process. From captivating introductions, to compelling descriptions and convincing conclusions, students learn to bring their words and their arguments to life. With explanation and practice exercises, it is an excellent extension and refinement of IEW Unit VIII.Consumable.

The Elegant Essay

$29.00 Student Workbooks

$79.00 CD-ROM

Linguistic Development
Through
Poetry Memorization:
A Mastery Learning Approach

9 Dvd's and Teaching Syllabus

Many children today are lacking a consistent source of reliably correct and sophisticated language patterns. Developing Linguistic Patterns Through Poetry Memorization provides a system to reintroduce you and your children to a vital but often neglected source of powerful and sophisticated linguistic patterning available to children: memorized language, especially memorized poetry. This teaching tool includes a book with over 75 complete poems, plus speech and soliloquy recommendations, as well as all the poems read on CD for ease of memorization. Instructions, memory charts, certificates, and poet biographies are included. If you get the audio CDs, you will also receive a bonus DVD of Andrew Pudewa's conference talk, "Nurturing Competent Communicators."
 

$65.00