Writing Strands: Beginning 2

Writing Strands: Beginning 2 is part of the revised Writing Strands series; this volume combines Reading Strands with Writing Strands Level 3 from the prior edition of this curriculum. This resource covers 180 days of instruction and includes a weekly lesson schedule, student worksheets, and an answer key for the objective questions in the reading lesson portion.

Each week alternates between writing lessons and reading lessons; for their reading, students will read biblical passages as well as books chosen and assigned by the parent. A weekly lesson schedule is also included.

This comprehensive approach will help students begin to develop a solid foundation in communication as they focus on basic, creative, organizational, and descriptive writing skills. This course alternates a week of writing exercises with a week of reading and discussing books and ideas. Students will learn to:

• Master using sentences and paragraphs, main and supporting ideas, and point of view, as well as the process of rewriting
• Apply the skill of planning and writing a short story
• Organize objects so their placement can be understood
• Understand that all people do not see the same thing in the same ways
• Demonstrate the ability to connect a number of complicated sentences to make a story
• Discovering how to discern settings from a biblical passage
• Identify cultural aspects of literature, and how this can help in better understanding biblical passages
• and more!

This course covers 1 year of language arts instruction at the recommended schedule of 30-45 minutes per lesson, 5 days a week for 36 weeks. Non-reproducible and consumable. Grades 5-8. Softcover. 229 perforated, three-hole-punched pages. NKJV Scripture used.

Please Note: the Writing Strands Teaching Companion is recommended for use with this curriculum (sold-separately).