Writing With Skill Level 1 Set

Writing With Skill combines tried-and-true educational methods of the past with innovative contemporary insights. Writing assignments use excerpts from great literature for models, and step-by-step instructions explicitly teach the skills that other writing programs merely assign without explanation.

This set includes:

Writing With Skill/ Level One: Instructor Text: Designed to be used along with Writing With Skill, Level One: Student Workbook, this book turns every parent or teacher into a skilled writing instructor. Clear, detailed teaching instructions help you guide even reluctant writers into mastery of the most essential writing skills.

• Full instructor support: explanations, scripted discussion questions, model answers, rubrics
• Detailed guidance on how to evaluate student work
• Designed to help the student work with increasing independence
• Covers topics in history, science, literature, and poetry

Writing With Skill, Level One: Student Workbook: Designed to be used along with Writing With Skill/ Level One: Instructor Text, this book gives every student the necessary tools to write with clarity and confidence. For all students in the middle grades and above, Writing With Skill provides essential training in organization, composition structure, and research methods.

• Written directly to the student
• Straightforward, detailed instruction in how to construct and organize compositions
• Careful, clear analysis of models from great writers
• Topics in history, science, literature and poetry
• All source material for assignments provided-no other books needed

A thesaurus is needed for some of the lessons. We recommend Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus because of its thorough, scholarly content and ease of use.