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Complete Writer: Writing with Ease Text for Levels 1-4
- Stand-alone guide for creating individualized daily lessons for the elementary years.
- Parents choose reading material for narrations and copywork from student’s other subjects or from favorite literature.
- Supplements the Complete Writer: Writing with Ease Workbooks (not a required resource).
Complete Writer: Writing with Ease Text is a four-year guide to design your own elementary writing program. It can also provide parents additional support for the Writing with Ease Workbooks for Levels 1-3, along with guidance for an optional year four of writing lessons using the Complete Writer methodology.
The first section – Understanding the Program – describes the three stages of writing instruction and why most writing programs fail, as well as a four-year scope and sequence and concludes with a segment on where/how to begin. Included are some short diagnostic exercises to determine if an older reluctant-to-write student will benefit from some portions of the program. The bulk of the text provides the weekly lessons for each level (year). Each year is divided into segments that have a varying number of weeks. Each of these segments start with a detailed lesson plan for the first week, then "tweaked" plans for the rest of the weeks in that segment (i.e., use slightly longer sentences for copywork; look for sentences that contain the proper names of days of the week and months of the year). Each year concludes with a mastery evaluation. Copywork sentences and narration excerpts are provided for "first weeks" only. Valuable appendices include troubleshooting student’s writing problems, frequently asked questions, and resource lists.
Now updated and revised with new content! Young students who learn to write well need one-on-one instructionsomething which your child's classroom may not offer.
In The Complete Writer series, Susan Wise Bauer turns every parent into a writing teacher. No experience is needed.
Drawing on her fifteen years of experience in teaching writing, Susan lays out a carefully-designed sequence of steps that will teach every student to put words on paper with ease and grace. This alternative plan for teaching writing combines the best elements of old-fashioned writing instruction with innovative new educational methodsand explains why so many writing programs fail.
Designed for elementary-aged writers and for older students who still struggle, Writing With Ease builds a sturdy foundation of basic skills for grades 14 (or levels 14 for the older student who needs more work) all in the same book. Diagnostic tests within the book will help the parent to determine where the child needs to start and which workbook the child will need.
You can use the text by itself as a guide, then choose your own copywork and dictation; or you can buy the workbooks, which do all the work for you. Each workbook covers one grade.
Writing With Ease provides easy-to-use materials for teaching young students how to form thoughts and develop written communication. Considered a companion to the Well-Trained Mind’s First Language Lessons, it also would work alongside other grammar-based language arts programs. At the heart of the program is the one-on-one instruction. From copywork and dictation (putting words on paper) to narration (verbalizing ideas), students ultimately combine these skills in Year 3 and the optional Year 4. There are two options for teaching the course:
- Option 2: Complete Workbooks for Levels 1-3 (with teaching information and reproducible student pages)
Product Format: | Hardcover |
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Grades: | K-5 |
Brand: | Well-Trained Mind Press |
ISBN: | 9781933339771 |
Length in Inches: | 9.25 |
Width in Inches: | 6.5 |
Height in Inches: | 0.75 |
Weight in Pounds: | 1.15 |