Teaching Writing: Structure and Style - with DVDs

Use this program to learn to teach writing from second grade through High School

This seminar for teachers shows you how to incrementally teach the writing process to your students. It is a 2-day seminar presented on 6 DVDs. You do not need to watch the entire seminar before starting, just watch a disc and begin teaching right away.

The program comes with a Seminar Workbook containing writing helps and sample lesson plans as well as three bonus DVDs presenting the first lesson to students at various grade levels. The set includes the full teacher training course on six DVDs (12 hours plus practicum assignments), along with three 2-hour demonstration lessons showing the first step of the process being taught to students at three different grade levels - an enjoyable jump start with Structure and Style. The accompanying Seminar Workbook becomes your syllabus and teaching manual.

Scope and Sequence

• Unit I ~ Note Making and Outlines Teaches students to make a "key word outline," freeing them from worries of what to write about so they are able to focus clearly on how to write well.
• Unit II ~ Summarizing from Notes Builds on Unit I by showing students how to summarize their notes and improve their writing with descriptive adjectives, adverbs, and more.
• Unit III ~ Narrative Stories Shows students a basic story structure and develops their ability to write stories using familiar stories as models.
• Units IV and VI ~ Summarizing References & Library Reports Prepare students to take notes from their sources and write library research reports without pain and agony.
• Unit V ~ Writing from Pictures Uniquely taps students' creative energies by writing stories from a series of one to three pictures.
• Unit VII ~ Creative Writing Gives students a usable method to "get information out of their brain" when writing anything, from summer vacation essays to a decent letter to Grandma.
• Unit VIII ~ Essay Writing Provides students with the skill of writing formal essays of five or more paragraphs, developing the foundation for high school and university writing.
• Unit IX ~ Critique Writing Concludes the course, teaching a solid structure for book reports, reviews, and critiques.