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| A REASON FOR WRITING! GOD MADE MY WORLD. A Beginner's Book for Manuscript Handwriting. A proven K-6 handwriting curriculum based entirely upon Scripture! Student worktexts for each grade including a comprehensive K-6 Teacher's Guidebook. The daily format is fun, flexible, and easy to use for both teacher & student. This curriculum zeroes in on daily practice - 10 to 15 minutes each day! Every weekly lesson is built around one carefully selected Scripture passage. Children discover the fun of sharing God's Word with others, when at the end of the week they write out their verse on a witnessing Border sheet and pass it along. Simple strokes used later in manuscript writing are taught. After mastering the strokes, students are introduced to the alphabet. |
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| A REASON FOR WRITING SERIES. A K-6 handwriting curriculum using Scripture and traditional manuscript and cursive approach. Scripture poster practice sheets. Concerned Communications. | |
| ANY CHILD CAN WRITE. Written by: Harvey S. Weiner. Written in a warm and engaging style by a renowned educational authority, this program shows parents how to set up an atmosphere that encourages creative written expression--preschool through high school (and beyond)--by building attitudes of aptitude that, coupled with a parent's guidance, create confidence in linguistic ability. Wiener's philosophy of writing and many suggested activities will give you the framework you need to nurture the creative process in your children. |
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| CHRISTIAN JOURNAL WRITING; INTERMEDIATE. This book divides journal writing into 12 themes--faith, loyalty, kindness, fairness, trust, and more--helping children integrate Christian values and journal writing into their everyday lives. A calendar for each month includes daily writing activities. | |
| COMPOSITION & CREATIVE WRITING FOR THE MIDDLE GRADES (5-8). Written by: Imogene Forte. Companion to WRITING SURVIVAL SKILLS, this resource was created to increase the fluency, flexibility, & originality in the written communication skills of your students. All of the activities are skill-indexed for no-fuss planning. |
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| CREATIVE WRITING. Observational skills, descriptive words, clear thinking, proofreading, and imaginative writing are emphasized throughout this challenging and interesting write-in text. Students study observation and creativity, poetry, and essay writing as they create anagrams, acrostics, and rebuses and work with synonyms, connotation, and alliteration. Penmanship practice pages allow for a penmanship review. Soft cover. A Beka Book. |
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| CRITICAL THINKING ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE WRITING SKILLS ARGUMENTS A-1. Written by: Michael Baker. Four activity books helps teachers supplement their writing programs with easy-to-use critical thinking activities that emphasize real life communication skills. Students analyze a critical-thinking problem, produce a solution, and communicate their solution in writing to other students. Ideal for grades 4-12 and works well with younger gifted students and as a remediation tool for older ones. Students practice skills by analyzing short complex problems and writing solutions to them. |
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| CURSIVE CONNECTIONS. By: Kathryn Libby. This cursive workbook uniquely emphasizes letter connections, rather than the letters in isolation. This workbook briefly introduces the letter, and then pairs it with previously learned letters, beginning with the vowels. Practice becomes increasingly complex, progressing into the usage of the letter in words, phrases, and finally sentences. The result is fluent, quality cursive. |
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| FROM HEART TO PAGE; Journaling Through The Year For Young Writers. Written by: Michelle Van Loon. This book gives the teacher and student 150 ideas for daily journal writing. It is an easy to use guide to encourage young writers in the writing process. |
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| GOD'S GIFT OF LANGUAGE C. The sixth grader should be constantly guided to see how grammar applies to his writing and speaking. This book gives a thorough, systematic presentation of grammar, composition, and mechanics in a clear and appealing manner. Of special help are the explanations and demonstrations of the writing process. Students who use this program are not “afraid of composition.” Two of the features of this language text that students and teachers appreciate are the cumulative Looking Back sections at the end of each unit and The Student Writer’s Handbook, the writing reference section at the end of the book. Soft cover. A Beka Book. |
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| HANDWRITING, GRADE 6. Features an introduction to Chancery Cursive, a style of calligraphy, as well as continued practice of cursive writing. Introduces the study of each letter with a profession beginning with the same letter. Teacher's Edition contains a variety of activities centered on the theme "People and Professions." Helps maintain good handwriting skills while teaching interesting and pertinent facts about the work people do. Teacher's Edition: 152 pages; spiral binder. Student Worktext provides a variety of writing activities to motivate the young writer. Includes cursive models such as bibliographies, checks, schedules, and post cards. Student Worktext: 112 pages; softbound; color and black-and-white illustrations. Bob Jones University Press. |
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| IF YOU'RE TRYING TO TEACH YOUR KIDS HOW TO WRITE, YOU'VE GOTTA HAVE THIS BOOK (FOR ALL GRADES). Written by: Marjorie Frank. This all-time favorite is a how-to book for understanding and working with the whole writing process, an at-your-fingertips source of ideas for starting specific activities, and a manual for solving writing problems. |
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| INSTRUCTION GUIDEBOOK FOR K-6. Revised edition. Begins with general principles of handwriting. Special sections give specific information for teaching pre-manuscript, manuscript, transition, & cursive handwriting. Offers dozens of supplementary exercises, games, & ideas for sharing the Scripture Border sheets, complete vocabulary lists for the cursive worktexts, plus more. |
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| LANGUAGE ARTS FROM A TO Z. Written by Kay Milow. Language Arts from A to Z is a 35 week program which incorporates spelling, grammar, handwriting, reading and vocabulary with an explicit phonics approach. This means the children are taught the sounds of letters in isolation without any picture clues, word clues, or letter names. The program includes daily lesson plans and are tested each Friday. The program is arranged very economically and practically for homeschool moms. |
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| LEARNING LANGUAGE ARTS THROUGH LITERATURE SERIES. The Blue Book - First Grade Skills - The Common Sense Reading Program (Reading is More Than Phonics) Learning Language Arts through Literature presents a developmental, integrated approach to language arts learning from First Grade through High School. Based on Ruth Beechick's educational philosophies, Common Sense Press believes LLAL to be the most effective language arts instruction method on the market. |
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| SPELLING, GRADE 6. Focuses on common Greek and Latin word beginnings and more pairs of related words. A special dictionary section follows the detective Dick Shanary ("dictionary") through six exciting cases, climaxing in the capture of the criminal Werds and his accomplice, Miss Spelling. Teacher's Edition provides information on the Greek and Latin words, which make up the spelling units. Divided into units taught in a five-day sequence. Includes additional information on countries. Teacher's Edition: 426 pages; loose-leaf in ring binder. Student Worktext presents word lists arranged by spelling patterns. Provides interesting writing activities. Includes a humorous word study and a guided journal entry. Student Worktext 214 pages; softbound. Bob Jones University Press. |
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| SPELLING, VOCABULARY, POETRY 6. Students gain confidence as they learn to apply spelling rules and develop dictionary skills. Students learn to appreciate the beauty of language by memorizing 8 poems throughout the year. Text contains 26 word lists selected by roots, prefixes, and suffixes and 9 review lessons. Teacher edition available. Soft cover. A Beka Book. |
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| SPENCERIAN PENMANSHIP. Written by: P.R. Spencer. This 6 volume set was developed in the 1860's. These little books teach children how to write neatly and clearly. Each of the 5 copybooks has sheets with guidelines and examples. Students repeat the examples within the lines. Book on theory is for the teacher/parent. Covers grades 2 through 8. |
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| THE ITALIC HANDWRITING SERIES. Written by: Barbara Getty. A comprehensive, self-directed handwriting program for children and adults. Provides a clear, concise, step-by-step approach with opportunity for lots of practice. Plus, all materials are handwritten, providing constant modeling. Legible, logical, easy to write, and easy to teach. Even if you've never taught handwriting, you'll find this series easy to follow and full of guidance, tips and creative practice material Based on learning classic italic manuscript and then adding joins to make cursive (no new letters to learn for cursive). Getty/Dubay Continuing Education Press. |
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| UNDERSTANDING WRITING. Written by Susan Bradrick. This Bible-based, Christ-centered English language and composition curriculum is for grades 1-12. Adaptable to single or multi-level tutoring. Teaches the mastery of the following basic elements of language & writing: Content, Style, and Mechanics. A fifty page "PET" tablet (P-lanning, E-valuation, and T-eaching) and a plastic line-guide template accompany each book. In addition, Understanding Writing also begins after a child has mastered reading and spelling vocabulary of fifty words or more; replaces yearly English texts; is non- disposable; contains daily lessons which are ready-to-use; consists of teaching units alternating with writing units; plus lots more. |
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| WORDS OF WISDOM. Adventures in Handwriting from Proverbs. Cursive handwriting practice for 6th grade. (Paperback). |
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| WRITESHOP I. Written by: Kim Kautzer and Debra Oldar. Are you scared to death to teach writing? After all, it can be one of the most daunting tasks facing teachers and homeschool parents alike. With WriteShop you can teach important composition and editing skills to junior high or high school students in an orderly, step-by-step fashion - and succeed. For grades 6-10. |
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| WRITE SOURCE 2000. A school-wide handbook for Middle School students. The handbook stresses the fundamental principles of writing. Also includes the following: Basic Elements of Writing, Composing Paragraphs and Essays, Writing Reports, Speaking and Listening, Reading and Thinking Strategies, Improving Study and Test Skills, Working In Groups and more. Includes a glossary of computer terms, a copy of the Constitution, and a full-color map section. For grades 4-9. |
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| WRITING AND GRAMMAR 6. Reviews all parts of speech taught in previous grades. Leads students to apply their knowledge of grammar, usage, and punctuation as they refine their composition skills. Includes lessons on writing an adventure story, a short research paper, and newspaper articles. Teacher's Edition contains 165 lesson plans that provide ideas for the preparation and presentation of subject matter. Includes lessons in usage and composition. Teacher's Edition: 578 pages; loose-leaf in ring binder. Student Worktext provides activities centered on the theme "Industries." Develops skills learned in each lesson. Student Worktext: 380 pages; softbound; color and black-and-white illustrations. Bob Jones University Press. |
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| WRITING SURVIVAL SKILLS FOR THE MIDDLE GRADES (5-8). Written by: Imogene Forte. Everything from the business letter to the job application is covered in both teacher-directed and reproducible student activities. |
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