Writing With Skill, Level 2: Instructor Text (The Complete Writer)

Description

The Student Workbook encourages independent composition, while the Instructor Text contains easy-to-use supporting information for the teacher, rubrics for grading, sample compositions, and dialogue to use while teaching. Together, the Student Workbook and Instructor Text provide a full year of middle-grade writing instruction, preparing students to enter high-level rhetoric. * Reviews Level One skills in narration, biographical sketches, descriptions, and sequences * Teaches new skills in writing comparisons, drawing contrasts, and tracing cause and effect * Improves sentence style through prose exercises drawn from Erasmus, Aristotle, and other classical rhetoricians * Covers three-level outlining, composition planning and structure * Guides the student through critical essay writing in both fiction and poetry * Provides practice in research and documentation skills