Grades 5-7 Writing Strands: Beginning 1

Writing Strands Beginning 1 will help your junior high student master basic writing with unique exercises on dialogue, reporting, interviews, role playing, persuasion, story writing, organizing, and grouping ideas.

Learn Language Arts Through Creative Writing!

Students will begin developing a solid foundation in communication as they develop their creative writing skills in Writing Strands Beginning 1! Through interactive lessons, simple guided writing assignments, literature evaluation, and role-playing, students will learn how to:

• Use adjectives to construct sentences
• Present actions in a logical sequence
• Write conversations using dialogue structure
• Describe objects by observing and defining differences
• Read and evaluate literature
• and so much more!

A Comprehensive Approach

Writing Strands Beginning 1 takes a comprehensive approach to language arts, teaching students components of grammar, sentence construction, logical sequencing, and structure while also developing the student's reading, writing, and speaking skills. Students learn how to read and evaluate literature, practice spelling, address envelopes, learn the importance of eye contact, and so much more!

Fully Updated for a New Generation!

With over a 30 year history, Writing Strands has proven itself to be a solid, powerful tool for teaching students to write and communicate clearly. Writing Strands Beginning 1 includes a convenient daily schedule and has been fully updated, clarified, and simplified for ease of use.

Writing Strands Beginning 1 is a hybrid course that combines Reading Strands and Writing Strands Level 2 into one course. Worksheets are now provided to add structure to reading assignments chosen by the teacher.

Students will rotate writing and reading assignments each week—thus also learning to write through literature because good readers make good writers! Additionally, the Bible is now used as the literature base for teaching how characters are developed within the elements of literature.

Writing Strands Beginning 1 Features:

• Suggested Daily Schedule—saving you time!
• Student Worksheets
• Teaching Instructions
• New literature component
• 3-hole punched, perforated pages

Course Features:

• 30-45 minutes per lesson, 5x per week
• Recommended Grade Level: 5 - 7
• Designed for student & teacher to work through together

OPTIONAL TEACHING COMPANION:

Unlike a traditional guide that focuses specifically on one book or level, this teaching companion is supplemental for any level of the program. Teachers will find this an invaluable resource, not only for using the Writing Strands curriculum but also for teaching any course that includes writing and literature as a component. The Teaching Companion provides a helpful overview of the Writing Strands system, as well as additional information on a range of writing, grammar, and literature issues that a teacher may face.

• Includes general guidelines on how to approach drafting papers with students and how to give effective writing feedback
• Provides discussion of the most common difficulties that students encounter, as well as tips on how to help students overcome these challenges
• Discusses how to encourage a lifelong love of reading in students, including suggestions on how to ask good questions when discussing books
• Offers suggested goals and objectives for teaching literature, broken down by age
• Explains the various elements of fiction and differences in literary genres, and includes appendices with information on basic citation, advice on teaching vocabulary, commonly confused words, and glossaries of grammar and literary terms.

Special attention is also given to the needs of developing readers, with additional supplemental information on teaching techniques for young readers and tips for helping them understand the meaning of what they read and develop critical thinking skills. We highly recommend that teachers read the Teaching Companion before their students start the course and that they continue to consult it as needed as students learn additional concepts.

We highly recommend that teachers read the Teaching Companion before their students start the course and that they continue to consult it as needed as students learn additional concepts.

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