Adventures In Writing (Iew)

This multi themed-based writing program allows students to venture into varied topics of history and science as they hone their writing skills. Explore source texts on themes from the Nile to tornadoes, magnets to dolphins, the Nile to the Colosseum, Leif Eriksson to Roanoke, and more. Students will learn and practice how to write from notes, retell narratives, summarize references, write from pictures, summarize multiple references, and inventive writing. A list of suggested literature helps tie in themes (See Teacher book description for a detailed list). This curriculum assumes teachers have learned the methodology of and have access to the IEW program, Teaching Writing: Structure and Style, which will be referenced in each unit. The thirty lessons also introduce vocabulary which is practiced regularly, with periodic quizzes, and the goal of incorporating these words in their writing. Students learn words like melodious, colossal, commotion, nutritious, and spacious (with 5 possible quizzes for review). To teach the course, purchase the combo, or as individual pieces. For more information, see the individual item descriptions.

  This course is the first in a series of multi-theme courses created in conjunction with Hillsdale’s K-12 topics of scope and sequence, which assigns a Grade 3 reading level to this course. See Discoveries in Writing sku 014431 for volume 2 in this series. ~ Ruth