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This course book has been revised, and this new edition features additional exercises and examples, an expanded section on writing short stories, additional explanation and examples of revision, and review/practice quizzes. The book allows ample room to write exercises in, but students can also use regular paper so that you can re-use with several children.
Publisher's Description of Wordsmith / Janie B. Cheaney (3rd Ed.)
For seventh grade skills and up, Wordsmith is the perfect companion to Learning Language Arts Through Literature. For young people who want to improve their writing skills, step-by-step instructions are provided that will help any writer improve his techniques. The introduction provides a brief review of grammar followed by instruction on building stronger sentences, exercise in descriptive and narrative writing, creating dialogue, story writing, and writing from a particular point of view. Plus, the essential skills of every good writer, practice in proofreading and revising.
Lessons build from focusing on interesting word usage to sentence construction, to scene-setting, characterization, and well-written dialogue, and culminate in the writing of a short story at the end. Students can complete the course in about a year, but you might want to alternate lessons with grammar instruction, other technical skills instruction, or other types of writing and "stretch out" the use of Wordsmith over a longer time period.
We only just started using this book but my girls seem to enjoy it so far.
Kristina D
Rated 5 out of 5
Sep 5, 2013
Finally a writing curriculum that doesnt elicit moans from my children! While other curriculums have depressed even my creative willing writer this is a breath of fresh air The text is conversational written to the student (and at their level) is engaging and actually fun Assignments are not vague airy-fairy concepts that only cause frustration for students and parents alike They are well-defined projects with ample instruction and clear examples Weve used Wordsmith Apprentice Wordsmith and plan to incorporate Wordsmith Craftsman into our high school curriculum either later this year or next
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Why did you choose this?
Rainbow Resource CenterStore
Read wonderful reviews on Cathy Duffy and looking forward to trying it out
A E
I used it with my older daughter and she loved it. Now I want to use it with my younger one.
Katherine R
my 7th grade daughter could benefit from learning more writing skills and practice.
Cathy E
Good
Ching Y
Are these books intended to be written in or can I use the same one for two students?
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They have pages that are to be written on, so it is consumable. I feel that you could probably use one book with two kids, if you just had them write on separate pieces of paper. I guess it depends on your kids.
Bonnie J
Do you really need the teacher's guide with these books?
In my opinion, no. I have the teacher's guide, but it was really not helpful at all in the way I'd hoped. The teacher's guide does contain some possible answers for the review quizzes at the very end of the student book. Otherwise, the main point of the teacher's guide is to break down what to do each day. In my opinion, you can easily do this yourself, by just having the student work through the book (reading/writing/revising) 4 days/week! :)
Read wonderful reviews on Cathy Duffy and looking forward to trying it out
I used it with my older daughter and she loved it. Now I want to use it with my younger one.
my 7th grade daughter could benefit from learning more writing skills and practice.
Good