Essentials in Writing Level 1 Assessment/Resource Booklet 2nd Edition

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Description

The Assessment/Resource Booklet (136 pgs, pb) provides end-of-lesson and end-of-unit evaluation using both analysis and writing task skills. These will focus on tasks such as quality word choice, sentence variety, the writing process, and more.

Publisher's Description of Essentials in Writing Level 1 Assessment/Resource Booklet 2nd Edition

Includes:

Assessments: 10 grammar assessments, 4 composition assessments, and 2 comprehensive unit tests

Resources: a personal spelling dictionary with common hard-to-spell words and space to add more words, and multiple graphic organizers

Category Description for Essentials In Writing

Looking for a complete English course for all grade levels that is well organized, thorough in explanation, effective in teaching and easy to use in a homeschool or group setting? Then consider Essentials in Writing! Video instructor Matthew Stephens taught English at the elementary and high school levels for years, and he used his experience to good effect in authoring this course.

Video lessons featuring Mr. Stephens are the essence of the course, with supporting workbook activities as follow-up. Mr. Stephens is doing the heavy lifting of presenting and explaining the material, leaving only clarification and follow-up questions to the home instructor. Lessons are presented in bite-sized chunks, so each day's lesson features one main point. The quality of the video and audio is good, showing Mr. Stephens teaching in front of a classroom on a white board. For younger grades, the teacher and student would watch the videos together, then discuss to make sure that the student grasps the main ideas of the presentation. Students at more advanced grades can watch the videos on their own (as the instruction is always directed to the student), leaving only follow-up discussion of the material and assignment to the teacher. Of course, the instructor should preview the video material to ensure knowledge of the material and consistency of approach in working with the student.

Lesson lengths are age appropriate. Grades 1 and 2 average 15 to 20 minutes total, including about 3 minutes of video presentation. By grades 6 to 12, lesson length totals 20 to 40 minutes, with 7 minutes of video presentation. Material covered is also age appropriate and features a building block approach. While not a learning-to-read phonics program, Level 1 begins with reviewing letters and sounds and progresses to using letters to make words and words to make sentences. Grammar is taught in context, not in isolation, so the grammar instruction is more likely to stick. Mr. Stephens believes that the program covers grammar sufficiently, but if you want to cover sentence diagramming, a separate course would be necessary. Spelling is not covered in the course; All About Spelling is the recommended course. By Levels 8 to 12, the focus is sentence and paragraph structure as used in essays, research papers and personal and business letters.

The Workbook coordinates with the video lessons. Ideally, the student and teacher would look at the worksheet before viewing the video for that day's lesson. Worksheets are used sequentially with some lessons being completed in one day and some being split into multiple days (for instance, Lesson 1A, 1B, 1C). Grade 3 will take from 100 to 110 lessons to complete, while Grades 5 to 12 will take 125 to 140. Scheduling is simple – just play the video for the next lesson in the workbook. Worksheet clarity is good; the examples and directions are clear and the assignment is focused on the topic at hand. 

Grading is made easier with checklists and scoring guides and an answer key to specific exercises included in the Teacher Handbook (Levels 1-8) only. There is no answer key for Levels 9-12.

Each course is sold as a Combo with video content either on DVD or online. Combos with online video include a print workbook and online access to video content. DVD Combos include video on DVD and a Workbook. Please note that DVD Combos are being discontinued in 2022, but we will have remaining inventory while supplies last.

For those wanting more comfort that their student is learning the material, an assessment/resource booklet is now available for several levels. These consist of 26 assessments and 2 comprehensive assessments. The resource part of the book consists of a few pages of word choice lists for improving writing interest, writing checklists, writing organization tools and answer key to the assessments.

Mr. Stephens, a Christian, taught in the public schools, so he designed this course to be used in either a secular or Christian environment. The courses were put together before Common Core came along and no effort has been made to make them compatible with Common Core. I believe that Mr. Stephens has given us a course that is easy to implement, with an effective teaching style, at an affordable price. ~ Bob

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Product Format:Paperback
Brand:Essentials in Writing
Grade:1
ISBN:9781950664870
Length in Inches:11
Width in Inches:8.5
Height in Inches:0.25
Weight in Pounds:0.55
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