Institute for Excellence in Writing Curriculum

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.

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.