Designed for grades 3-7 as a one-year course. Focuses on foundational skills, written exercises, and the overall writing process. Students will learn how to effectively master using sentences and writing paragraphs, main/supporting ideas, point of view, the process of rewriting, and creating characters; 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 things in the same ways; and demonstrate the ability to connect complicated sentences to make a story. Literature lessons include discerning setting from a Biblical passage; identifying cultural aspects of literature, and how this can help in better understanding biblical passages; explaining how to search for setting clues, the setting and mood of a story, symbolism, and illustrating how one can use setting clues to understand characters and their actions. 267 pgs, pb.
Develop your student's foundational writing skills inWriting Strands Beginning 2! Designed for students who can independently write paragraphs (3rd - 7th grade),Writing Strands Beginning 2focuses on foundational skills, written exercises, and the overall writing process.
Through simple, guided writing exercises, reading, and literature evaluation, students will learn how to write organized sentences and paragraphs, explore main and supporting ideas, and learn how to create characters in this self-directed language arts course.
Writing Strands, long a homeschooling favorite, has received an expansion and facelift from its new publisher, Master Books. Still providing the same quality, step-by-step writing instruction, the major difference is that there is MORE than just writing instruction. A complete series of reading/literature lessons is interwoven with the writing instruction resulting in solid language arts courses. Each consumable worktext provides space to complete the writing assignments as well as worksheets for discussing books (chosen and assigned by teacher/parent) and Bible passages. The student is encouraged to keep an ongoing spelling list as well as constantly be involved in the writing evaluation process. Composition lessons cover the writing process and provide experience with the various forms of writing as well as specific traits of good writing. Reading/literature lessons provide literary analysis instruction coupled with discussion questions and biblical applications.
All instruction is provided in the Student Worktexts. Students are encouraged to build a portfolio binder although there is ample space provided to complete many of the Worktext assignments. Introductory information includes course descriptions/principles, writing guidelines, skills writing mastery chart, list of problems to solve (this is kept as a running list based on assignment completion), and a detailed daily schedule. Detailed lessons, written directly to the student, are provided for 180 days (five days a week; four 9-week quarters) and can be expected to take 30-45 minutes to complete. Bible passages are used as the primary resource for the literary analysis lessons. These lessons are coupled with book studies using literature selections chosen by the parent. Answer keys for objective portions are included as well as a glossary of helpful terms.
This edition is a bit more grade specific than the previous version although there is still some flexibility. Each level is a one-year course. Typically students would begin the series in 5th grade and progress through 10th but a student with good reading skills could start in 4th (possibly, 3rd). An older student (ex. 7th grade) would typically start with Intermediate 1 but could start with a lower level if their writing skills are minimal. Students should be able to enter at grade level assuming they are reading at or above grade level. Grammar and spelling are covered from a usage perspective so you may want to add a grammar and/or spelling workbook for practice and basic instruction. All course books are three-hole punched. ~ Janice
To help my kiddo write more
We completed WS Beginner 1 and it worked great for my very reluctant writer. He and I both love that its broken into small sections and then the story is pieced together.
Writing Strands is a good curriculum
I bought this for homeschooling my 4th grader