Teaching Writing: Structure and Style
This seminar on DVD for the teacher is the place to start.
Includes everything you need to teach writing to your students.
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SWI Level A (Elementary)

This course begins at the beginning and is geared for 3-5th grade Elementary students, however it has been successfully used for students as young as 2nd grade and as old as 9th. In this level, students learn how to:

• Create outlines from a single paragraph,
• Use all six dress-ups (stylistic techniques such as strong verbs and quality adjectives).
• Write narritive stories using Aesop fables as models
• Apply the "Topic/Clincher Rule" for paragraphs
• Write simple reports from multiple references.
• Complete a "brain inventory" and write a paragraph from information in their brain on the subject of their choice (creative writing)
• See complete lesson plans.
  

Student Classes on DVD
Excellence in Writing offers a line of student courses on DVD for many grade levels. Start with a Student Writing Intensive, continue with the Continuation Course, and prepare your student for both the SAT and college with the High School Essay Intensive and the Advanced Communication Series. Most of these courses Free lesson plans.

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and 28 Spelling Rules Cards, used to master the fundamental rules of Spelling. (Please Note: these cards come on an 8 and 1/2" x 11" cardstock, you would cut them out and can laminate them if desired.)

All new for me!  I would love to hear your input on any of these books.

A revised and expanded edition of First Grammar Lessons by Charlotte Mason, authored by Karen Andreola. Truly a gentle, friendly, but thorough approach to grammar without all of the tedious workbooking - in the true spirit of Charlotte Mason. Karen has retained the soul of the book while updating it for us, replacing obscure words and giving us larger, crisper type, but using turn-of-the century illustrations and vine-bordered pages. The book embraces an interactive approach to grammar, accomplished, for the most part, orally. It is a natural, uncomplicated method - you simply sit down with your child and this book and teach. Lessons are to be completed at the rate of one per week, in short, 10-15 minute sessions. One rule is taught per lesson. The 46 lessons here, along with the additional exercises in the appendices, should supply a year of pleasurable instruction.

A creative, interactive, hands-on approach to vocabulary! What better way to retain the learning of new words? Using index cards, a file box, and a good dictionary, this approach is a welcome departure from the typical workbook fare. And, subtitled: Help for Reading, Writing, Spelling and S.A.T. Scores, it’s obvious from looking at this book that it would, indeed, do just that! How? By teaching the roots of the English language found in Greek and Latin. Since the majority of our words are rooted in these classical languages, mastering these roots is a key that will open the door to understanding a myriad of words! The creative activity suggestions in this book could become the basis for wonderful unit studies as well.

I thought I would try this for my six year old.  He is already reading so this might be a tad easy.

Sample Page 3, Page 24, Page 58



Dictating one spelling word a day.  Your child will be introduced to frequently used words as well as the writings of great men and women of history!


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