Author(s): Susan Wise Bauer
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 600
Publisher: Peace Hill Press
Language: English
Date Published: 2013-10-08
Dimensions: 218 x 279 x 36mm
Publication City/Country: United States
Edition: Teachers Guide
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The Student Workbook encourages independent composition, while the Instructor Text contains easy-to-use supporting information for the teacher, rubrics for grading, sample compositions, and dialogue to use while teaching. Together, the Student Workbook and Instructor Text provide a full year of middle-grade writing instruction, preparing students to enter high-level rhetoric.





Reviews Level One skills in narration, biographical sketches, descriptions, and sequences
Teaches new skills in writing comparisons, drawing contrasts, and tracing cause and effect
Improves sentence style through prose exercises drawn from Erasmus, Aristotle, and other classical rhetoricians
Covers three-level outlining, composition planning and structure
Guides the student through critical essay writing in both fiction and poetry
Provides practice in research and documentation skills