WriteShop Incremental Writing

If your quest for a stellar writing program has been long and arduous, we think youll be glad to discover WriteShop Incremental Writing. Its the one writing curriculum which we feel combines the best elements of all the others on the market. WriteShop Incremental Writing:

Emphasizes clarity, conciseness, colorful vocabulary, and interesting sentences Focuses on developing a strong paragraph; Offers a wide variety of writing activities; Helps students know exactly what to look for when refining their own work; Helps parents know how to methodically evaluate their children's writing.

WriteShop focuses on teaching the elements of style. Students learn to develop strong paragraphs through choosing vivid, descriptive words and using sentence variations. They first learn to write descriptive paragraphs before moving on to informative, narrative, and persuasive writing. Skill Builders reinforce new concepts, which students then apply to their current compositions. While not a grammar or spelling program, WriteShop encourages growth and awareness in both of these areas.

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The Basic Curriculum Set includes everything you need to teach one student. Order one extra Workbook for each additional student.

WriteShop I teaches the basics of descriptive, informative, and narrative writing. WriteShop II offers more challenging assignments, including descriptive narration, point of view, narrative voice, persuasion, and essays.

Teacher's Manual Contents:

--Clearly-outlined instructions for teaching both WriteShop I and II, including discussion ideas, pre-writing activities, thorough explanations, and plenty of student samples.

--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

--Reproducible Composition, Essay, and Report Evaluation forms for future assignments

--Answer keys to Skill Builders and pre-writing activities

--An extensive Supplemental Activities appendix offering hundreds of ideas and topics for lesson expansion, essays, creative fiction, projects, and writing across the curriculum.

Workbook Contents:

--Step-by-step instructions for each lesson, written to the student

--Skill Builders to teach and reinforce new concepts

--Student and Teacher Writing Skills Checklists specific to each lesson (one per lesson)

--Composition and Essay Evaluation Forms (one per lesson)

--Exhaustive word banks

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