Writing With Skill, Level 2: Instructor Text
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Home Schooling, Language Arts, Study & Teaching, Writing & Publishing, Composition & Creative Writing
| Author: | Susan Wise Bauer | ISBN: | 9781942968238 |
| Publisher: | The Well-Trained Mind Press | Publication: | October 8, 2013 |
| Imprint: | The Well-Trained Mind Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Susan Wise Bauer |
| ISBN: | 9781942968238 |
| Publisher: | The Well-Trained Mind Press |
| Publication: | October 8, 2013 |
| Imprint: | The Well-Trained Mind Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
- Reviews Level One skills in narration, biographical sketches, descriptions, and sequences
- Teaches new skills in writing comparisons, drawing contrasts, and tracing cause and effect
- Improves sentence style through prose exercises drawn from Erasmus, Aristotle, and other classical rhetoricians
- Covers three-level outlining, composition planning and structure
- Guides the student through critical essay writing in both fiction and poetry
- Provides practice in research and documentation skills
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.
- Reviews Level One skills in narration, biographical sketches, descriptions, and sequences
- Teaches new skills in writing comparisons, drawing contrasts, and tracing cause and effect
- Improves sentence style through prose exercises drawn from Erasmus, Aristotle, and other classical rhetoricians
- Covers three-level outlining, composition planning and structure
- Guides the student through critical essay writing in both fiction and poetry
- Provides practice in research and documentation skills
