Complete Writer: Writing with Ease Text for Levels 1-4

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9781933339771
Grade K-5
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Charlotte Mason
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  • 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).
Description

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. 

Publisher's Description of Complete Writer: Writing with Ease Text for Levels 1-4

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.

Category Description for Complete English Programs

These materials offer complete coverage of both writing and grammar.


Category Description for Complete Writer (Well-Trained Mind)

Susan Wise Bauer has an opinion about how writing should be taught to children. Not surprising! With years of experience teaching writing at the college level, she knows that The Complete Writer is the one who has mastered the three stages of writing - Writing With Ease (combining the two distinct mental steps of putting ideas into words and putting words onto paper), Writing With Skill (learning to organize sentences into short compositions), and Writing With Style (the persuasive expression of ideas). Seven years ago, Peace Hill Press started publishing her writing courses that have an emphasis on this progression of skills. Now that The Complete Writer sequenced writing program (Writing With Ease and Writing With Skill) has been used by thousands of parents/students, Mrs. Bauer has gathered excellent feedback about their experience with her program. And, to her credit, she's "tweaking" her recommendations a bit to conform to that feedback. For instance, although the Writing With Ease series was designed to be used for four consecutive years, she is now suggesting that many - perhaps most - students will be prepared after the first three levels to progress into the Writing With Skill books. Likewise, she now suggests that fifth grade is probably on the young side to begin the Writing With Skill series.

It's easy to see that these recommendations mess with the previous neat symmetry of the program (four levels of WWE, then three levels of WWS). Not to worry! Mrs. Bauer suggests you can 1) slow down WWE-3 and cover that course over two years, 2) continue narrations and summaries across the curriculum, or 3) insert another writing curriculum - maybe creative writing - into the 1-2 year gap. [See our website for a chart listing four possible progressions.] And, if you're not certain if your student is ready to progress, she provides mastery evaluations for each level (in the WWE Text) that will help you make that determination. These diagnostic evaluations are also very helpful if you have an older student that you want to integrate into the program at an appropriate level or if you have an older, reluctant writer that needs to "go back to the basics" and acquire some necessary beginning skills.

The Writing With Ease and the Writing With Skill programs make it possible for any parent to become a writing teacher - no experience needed! The beginning levels are scripted with later levels focused on the student becoming an independent writer; the parent functioning as a writing mentor. Although each level is designed as a year long course, they are flexible and you can use your own discretion as to the speed at which you progress through them.

Category Description for Complete Writer: Writing With Ease

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: Complete Writer: Writing with Ease Strong Fundamentals Text or Complete Workbooks for Levels 1-3 (with teaching information and reproducible student pages). The Text meets the need of families who prefer to create individualized daily lessons following the model given. The Text provides a program overview of all levels with a week of detailed lessons plans followed by a general scope and sequence for the remainder of each level.

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Product Format:Hardcover
Brand:Well-Trained Mind Press
Grades:K-5
ISBN:9781933339771
Length in Inches:9.25
Width in Inches:6.5
Height in Inches:0.75
Weight in Pounds:1.15
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