Writing With Skill, Level 2: Instructor Text (The Complete Writer)

Brand: Peace Hill Press

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$29.15 - $46.09
UPC:
9781933339603
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
10/8/2013
Author:
Susan Wise Bauer
Language:
english
Edition:
1
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Product Overview

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