Institute for Excellence in Writing Curriculum

The Institute for Excellence in Writing's Teaching Writing: Structure and Style course is the foundation for the IEW method. This powerful seminar will help you learn to effectively teach writing, from the basics of paragraphs through advanced essays.

Teachers of students in grades K-12 will learn how to help students to write well, think clearly, and express themselves eloquently and persuasively. Instruction focuses on outlines and summarizing, generating cohesive paragraphs, creating stories, producing reports & critiques, developing essays, translating thoughts and ideas into writing, varying sentence structure, using interesting vocabulary, and more.

This IEW TWSS premium kit includes a seminar and practicum workbook, twelve DVDs, and a one-year premium subscription. The premium subscription includes an online Master Class taught by Andrew Pudewa. The course is comprised of nineunits:

• Unit 1: Note Making and Outlines
• Unit 2: Writing from Notes
• Unit 3: Retelling Narrative Stories
• Unit 4: Summarizing a Reference
• Unit 5: Writing from Pictures
• Unit 6: Summarizing Multiple Reference
• Unit 7: Inventive Writing
• Unit 8: Format Essay Models
• Unit 9: Formal Critique
• Plus sections on writing about literature, stylistic techniques (such as "Dress-Ups," "-ly adverbs," "decorations," "sentence openers," "banned verbs and alternatives,") and more.

The TWSS Seminar and Practicum Workbook serves as the syllabus for the seminar and contains charts, word lists, sample lesson plans, and more. Blackline masters may be reproduced for use within the same family. Units are easy-to-understand and include a summary, bullet-pointed goals, recommended materials, step-by-step teaching procedure, notes on adjusting for grade level, unit checklists, student samples for primary, elementary, middle school and high school grades, and practicum worksheets.

The twelve DVDs includes nine DVDs that cover the nine units and other workbook sections and three DVDs that show demonstration lessons for all grade levels (broken up between Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12).

The Premium Subscription includes one year of access from the date of activation to:

• Streaming video of the entire Teaching Writing: Structure and Style teacher training course, providing instruction on the nine structural models and multiple stylistic techniques (14 hours total viewing time-may be watched all at once, or viewed one disc at a time throughout the school year)
• Free access to the online IEW Checklist Generator
• Streaming video of sample Student Workshops at four different grade levels to help you with that first lesson
• Audio MP3 downloads of Andrew Pudewa's most popular conference talks
• Several digital PDF downloads
• Content updated annually in July

This 2nd Edition has been updated, and now features an improved layout with clear practicum instructions for teachers, updated student work samples, revised video content with subtitles and a streaming option, and the Premium Subscription for the TWSS course.

This Teaching Writing, Structure & Style 2nd Edition (2015) kit includes:

• One-Year Premium Subscription
• 12 DVDs in Leather Case
• TWSS Seminar & Practicum Workbook, loose-leaf pages in three-ring binder

The Institute for Excellence in Writing's Teaching Writing: Structure and Style course is the foundation for the IEW method. This single workbook is perfect for teachers who are taking the full course and don't need to purchase the DVDs. Please note that this workbook cannot be used independently of the DVD seminar.

Teachers of students in grades K-12 will learn how to help students to write well, think clearly, and express themselves eloquently and persuasively. Instruction focuses on outlines and summarizing, generating cohesive paragraphs, creating stories, producing reports & critiques, developing essays, translating thoughts and ideas into writing, varying sentence structure, using interesting vocabulary, and more.

The TWSS Seminar and Practicum Workbook serves as the syllabus for the seminar and contains charts, word lists, sample lesson plans, and more. Blackline masters may be reproduced for use within the same family. Units are easy-to-understand and include a summary, bullet-pointed goals, recommended materials, step-by-step teaching procedure, notes on adjusting for grade level, unit checklists, student samples for primary, elementary, middle school and high school grades, and practicum worksheets.

The TWSS Seminar & Practicum Workbook comes as loose-leaf pages in three-ring binder. 2nd Edition.

The definitive text for Teaching Writing: Structure & Style, this text covers the nine units in depth using the blended sight-sound method. For all grade levels, this manual includes creative writing, essay writing, and writing that can be transferred to other subjects and units. Modeling writing is stressed, as well as practical application by the student through continual writing exercises. Units covered include Note Making, Summaries from Notes, Story summaries, Summarizing references, stories from pictures, research reports, creative writing, essays and critiques. 306 pages, paperback, spiral-bound.

Portable Walls: Grammar on the Go from the Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW) is a convenient way to keep grammar rules organized! Providing grammar terminology and tips for the IEW dress-ups and sentence openers, punctuation rules with a focus on commas, basic parts of speech rules, and advanced grammar concepts, this tri-fold resource organizes everything you need to know about grammar in an "at your fingertips" format. Grades 6-12.

This mini-posters set features one "table-size" (8.5" x 11") poster for each of the nine units (two additional posters are included for Unit 8), plus five posters representing IEW's stylistic techniques. These full-color cards provide a handy reference and teaching tool for families. Includes 11 structural models posters and 5 stylistic techniques posters. 16 posters total.

Writing Source Packet from IEW is designed to be used with the Structure and Style for Studentsprogram from IEW, (sold-separately). Craft your own lessons with these source texts or provide additional practice at the point of need. All source texts in this packet are reproducible within a family. 322 pages.

Includes:

• Units 1 and 2 Articles and Stories These articles and stories are a convenient collection of general paragraphs that can be used when teaching Units 1 and 2.
• Unit 3 Narrative Stories These stories provide teachers with lighthearted texts based on fables, myths, fairy tales, and legends and are perfect material for teaching Unit 3.
• Units 4 and 6 Mini-Books These interesting animal topics Mini-Books may be used to teach collecting facts that stay on topic for a solid paragraph (Unit 4), or a teacher may use them as a transition toward independent library research (Unit 6).
• Unit 5 Pictures These humorous, sequential pictures are an excellent choice for teaching the Writing from Pictures model.

The Elegant Essay walks students through the entire essay-building process; from captivating introductions to compelling descriptions, students will learn to bring words and arguments to life. Focusing on both the form and content of an essay, this Institute for Excellence in Writing course will help students improve their thesis sentences, organization, transitions, conclusions and other elements of successful writing.

Written in a conversational style, students will enjoy how the author deftly weaves together unique examples of good writing with the principles upon which they're founded. Clearly designed exercises will have your students writing well--and enjoying it--in no time. With explanation and practice exercises, it is an excellent extension and refinement of IEW's Teaching Writing: Structure & Style Unit VIII.

Elegant Essay Units cover:

• Thesis Statement
• Essay Organization
• Transitions
• Introductions
• Conclusions
• Advanced thesis statements and planning charts
• Descriptive Practice Essay
• Persuasive Practice Essay

The Elegant Essay Teacher's Manual includes all the information needed to teach this course, from scheduling to structure to grading to daily lessons. Examples, teaching hints, models, and lesson-specific issues are addressed.

Each lesson begins with instruction in the students' book. After instruction, teachers model each lesson concept and lead students through assignments. Students are then allowed to practice ideas in a group or with the teacher, and finally complete a second set of "on your own" exercises independently.

This kit includes:

• The Elegant Essay Writing Lessons Student Book, 144 pages, spiral-bound, softcover. Reproducible for in-family use only.
• The Elegant Essay Teacher's Manual, 100 pages, spiral-bound softcover.
• Access to "The Elegant Essay" e-resource download

  Course may be adapted to cover 3-4 weeks or 13-16 weeks. Two sample schedules are included.

Great literature can change and shape a person. Windows to the World teaches high school students how to analyze the primary elements of literature: setting, plot, characterization, imagery, allusions, parallelism, and much more. Written from a Christian perspective, students will also learn to view literature and the author's intentions. Students will read a lesson (many with literary excerpts) before completing a variety of associated assignments.

The included teacher's supplement features a course overview, assessment overview, sample schedules, and chapter-by-chapter lesson plans with chapter objectives, a chapter outline plan and approach, and detailed teaching helps and supplements.

Student Book is 194 pages, softcover, spiralbound. Pages are reproducible for use by multiple children within the same immediate family. Purchasers of this book also receive instructions to download the optional Syllabus for Introduction to Literary Analysis.

The teacher's manual is 129 pages, spiralbound.

Built upon the Progymnasmata, the most successful and enduring collection of rhetorical exercises in the Western tradition, each lesson features an excerpt from a classical source, including Greek myths, the Canterbury Tales, and the Bible. sources. Based upon the course "Teaching Writing: Structure & Style", students will learn focus on note-taking; writing proverbs and fables from notes; narratio; encomium and viuperation; description; comparison; impersonation; thesis/confirmation/refutation; and formal critique. Building up reasoning and articulation skills, as well as the ability to complete a rhetorical analysis of a work, students will compose essays and arguments based on the exercises for a well-rounded classical course. 121 reproducible pages, softcover, spiralbound.