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Ancient History-Based Writing Lessons Teacher/StudentCombo Sixth Edition
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023582
ISBN
9781623413460
Grade 4-7
Neutral
High Teacher Involvement
Multi-Sensory
No other materials needed
Conceptual/Topical
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Traditional
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Charlotte Mason
A methodology based on the work of a 19th century educator who maintained that children learn best from literature (Living Books), not textbooks.
Classical
A methodology based on the Latin Trivium (three stages of learning), including the grammar stage (memorization and facts), logic stage (critical thinking), and rhetoric stage (developing/defending ideas).
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Auditory
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Learns through seeing, prefers written instructions and visual materials.
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Spiral
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Conceptual/Topical
Focus is on the “why,” often with a unifying concept as well as specific skills; coverage may be broader.
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Low Teacher Involvement
Student-led materials; parent acts as a facilitator.
Medium Teacher Involvement
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No other materials needed
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Our Price
$55.00 
Description
New 6th Edition for 2021. This Combo includes both the Student Book and the Teacher's Manual in one convenient set.
The Ancient History-Based Writing Lessons Teacher Manual includes reduced copies of all student pages. Accompanying teacher notes include specific insight into structures/styles being taught, vocabulary instruction, games, review, motivation ideas, and checklists. Suggested responses for many student activities are given (not the same as an answer key) but answers are provided for vocabulary quizzes. Information on how to access to course pdf downloads is also provided. These downloads include reproducible checklists and optional material.
The Student Book is consumable and provides all source texts as well as student pages. Reproducible (for families), all information the student needs is included in this book and, accordingly, the Student Resource Packet is no longer provided as a download. Removable, vocabulary cards (cardstock) are included. Some optional material as well as reproducible checklists are still available as pdf downloads with access information included in both the Student and Teacher Book.
Publisher's Description of Ancient History-Based Writing Lessons Teacher/StudentCombo Sixth Edition
New Edition for 2021. Experience the adventures of the ancient world! This theme-based writing curriculum exposes students to the ancient world through cultural literature and the study of famous places and events while they learn to write with the Structure and Style® Writing Method. Offering a full year of instruction for students in grades 4–7, these lessons cover all nine IEW Units. Vocabulary cards, literature suggestions, and access to helpful PDF downloads are also included. Purchase the Teacher's Manual and Student Book together and save!
Category Description for Institute for Excellence in Writing Programs (IEW)
Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW) curriculum provides an overall approach to writing instruction for all your homeschooling years. The distinctive Teaching Writing Structure & Style (TWSS) approach focuses on two basic components of composition – structure and style. Structure is both the type of writing and the method of organizing the writing. Style includes such things as varying sentence openings, using similes and metaphors, or repeating certain words for effect. Teachers and students will learn how to outline and summarize; transform their thoughts and ideas into writing; create cohesive paragraphs, essays, stories, reports, and critiques. They’ll learn/apply stylistic techniques like varied sentence structure, interesting vocabulary; and literary devices. It’s assumed parents/teachers are familiar with this dual-focused TWSS method when teaching IEW’s Structure & Style and in the Theme-Based Writing lesson courses.
Details
| Product Format: | Softcover Book |
|---|---|
| Grades: | 4-7 |
| Brand: | Institute for Excellence in Writing |
| Length in Inches: | 11 |
| Width in Inches: | 10.125 |
| Height in Inches: | 2 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 4.025 |
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4 Ratings
4 Reviews
Rated 3 out of 5
Aug 30, 2024
Need to take a course
I was told to get this by our charter school. I had no idea that you had to take a course before teaching my students. Lets just say that I fell off the deep end. I did have the teachers guide to help a little but it took me a while to self-teach myself before I could teach my students. I do like the format. I like the chunking method of taking notes but I wish I would have known that I needed to take a course (which was an additional couple hundred bucks) before purchasing. The cost was on the higher end. I have since found a different writing program that I prefer more.
Rated 5 out of 5
Sep 24, 2023
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Excellent curriculum!
Rated 5 out of 5
Nov 25, 2016
Goes perfectly with our ancient history study! Love IEW!
Rated 5 out of 5
Oct 27, 2015
Excellent resource for a wide range of ancient topics
Biblical and secular histories, myths, nice range of civilizations covered. Tongue and groove partner to IEW's TWSS curriculum.
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Why did you choose this?
Decided to challenge myself and my kids to excel in writing!
I have seen the fruit of IEW's teaching method in my highschoolers who write at a college level. So I'm using the same curriculum for my elementary student. It works. IEW is awesome!
Using this in our homeschool co-op. Have had great success with my older students in the past in a group setting.
These were chosen as curricula by a homeschool cooperative.