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WriteShop Teacher Manual (5th Edition)
SKU
021658
ISBN
9781930527478
Grade 6-12
Traditional
Neutral
Medium Teacher Involvement
Multi-Sensory
Other Materials Optional
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Charlotte Mason
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A methodology based on the Latin Trivium (three stages of learning), including the grammar stage (memorization and facts), logic stage (critical thinking), and rhetoric stage (developing/defending ideas).
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Auditory
Learns through listening, talking out loud or reading out loud.
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Learns through seeing, prefers written instructions and visual materials.
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Learns through moving, doing and touching.
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Curriculum progresses through well-defined learning objectives. Emphasizes mastery before moving to the next topic.
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Student-led materials; parent acts as a facilitator.
Medium Teacher Involvement
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High Teacher Involvement
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No other materials needed
Everything you need is included.
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Our Price
$65.70 
Description
The spiral-bound Teacher Manual covers all 30 lessons of both Parts I & II and provides lesson plans and schedules plus a wealth of resource material as indicated by tabbed sections such as editing/evaluating, writing samples, answer keys, and common problems of mechanics. There's even a section that lists “positive & encouraging comments." Lessons include pre-writing, copying brainstorming (mind-maps), skill-builders (usually grammatical concepts), sloppy copy (rough drafts), dictation, revising (lots of helps for this), and crafting the final draft.
Publisher's Description of WriteShop Teacher Manual (5th Edition)
With the Teacher's Manual for WriteShop I & II, you'll confidently teach descriptive, informative, narrative, and persuasive writing. Lesson plans cover BOTH WriteShop I and WriteShop II, including discussion ideas, pre-writing activities, thorough explanations, and plenty of student samples. Teachers and homeschool parents alike will find many other helpful teacher resources in this idea-packed book.
The Teacher's Manual helps ensure success of the program. Without it, the student workbooks lose much of their effectiveness. Only one-quarter of the TM contains lesson plans. The remainder of the handy, tab-divided manual is devoted to helping you learn to effectively edit and evaluate your students' writing. One look at the Table of Contents will convince you that this meaty resource is no ordinary teacher's guide!
What's new in the 5th edition?
- Faith-neutral content
- Updated, streamlined introduction
- Updated content in some lessons
- Updated answer keys
- Updated parent-friendly schedules
- Improved, high-resolution quality
The Teacher's Manual for WriteShop I & II includes
- Clearly outlined teacher lesson plans
- Instructions for many lesson exercises that are NOT found in the student workbook
- Tips for editing, evaluating, and grading student compositions (including edited examples of actual student work)
- Suggestions for addressing problem areas
- Instructions for using student and teacher checklists
- Answer keys to Skill Builders and pre-writing activities
- Extensive appendix offering hundreds of ideas for lesson expansion, persuasive essay topics, creative fiction, projects, and writing across the curriculum
Category Description for WriteShop I & II
Building upon skills lesson by lesson, WriteShop offers a comprehensive, yet easy-to-use, teacher-student interactive course.
Lessons build incrementally, covering sentence and paragraph construction skills and style in Volume I before the longer essay assignments in Volume II. Lessons build on each other and should be done in order without any skipping. The writing process is taught throughout the program with Part I focused on descriptive, informative, and narrative writing. Volume II continues with persuasive writing. Program components include the Teacher Manual (for both Volumes I & II) and a Student Workbook for each Volume.
Flexible schedule options allow you to complete one volume per year, or for an older/more advanced student, you can complete both volumes in one year. The program could also be used with motivated younger students as well. The thing to remember is that the skills covered are what would typically be considered foundational writing skills that prepare a student for the more demanding academic writing of high school. Also, not all types of writing (for instance, poetry) are covered.
The Teacher Manual (used with both Volumes I and II) provides detailed lesson plans and instructions for teachers. These include how to edit, how to make comments, description of typical student errors along with probable solutions, and student sample writing (with edits). There are also answer keys, reference sheets and forms, and essay topics.
The Student Workbooks (two volumes) contain instructional content, skill builders, graphic organizers, self-editing checklists, and teacher checklists for each assignment, and 17 word banks. Volume 1 focuses on descriptive, informative, and narrative writing. Volume II focuses on advanced narrative and descriptive writing, plus a heavy emphasis on 5-paragraph essay writing.
Copying and Dictation Exercises are incorporated into each lesson in Volume I. These are strongly encouraged and tend to strengthen both writing and listening skills when done consistently. A book with these exercises is available as a separate purchase. Overall, this is an excellent writing program and a wonderful, comprehensive resource for parents teaching one or more children at home or teachers in a co-op or class setting.
Details
| Product Format: | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Grades: | 6-12 |
| Brand: | WriteShop |
| ISBN: | 9781930527478 |
| Length in Inches: | 11 |
| Width in Inches: | 8.5 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.625 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 1.6 |
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