Teaching Writing: Structure and Style---12 DVD's and Workbook (2nd Edition)

The Institute for Excellence in Writing's Teaching Writing: Structure and Style course is designed to help teachers of students in grades K-12 teach writing effectively. The course covers the basics of paragraphs through advanced essays, and teachers will learn how to help students write well, think clearly, and express themselves eloquently and persuasively. The course includes instruction on outlines and summarizing, generating cohesive paragraphs, creating stories, producing reports and critiques, developing essays, translating thoughts and ideas into writing, varying sentence structure, using interesting vocabulary, and more.

This IEW TWSS premium kit includes a seminar and practicum workbook, twelve DVDs, and a one-year premium subscription. The premium subscription includes an online Master Class taught by Andrew Pudewa and is comprised of nine units. Units include note making and outlines, writing from notes, retelling narrative stories, summarizing a reference, writing from pictures, summarizing multiple references, inventive writing, format essay models, formal critique, and more.

The TWSS Seminar and Practicum Workbook serves as the syllabus for the seminar and contains charts, word lists, sample lesson plans, and more. Units are easy-to-understand and include a summary, bullet-pointed goals, recommended materials, step-by-step teaching procedure, notes on adjusting for grade level, unit checklists, student samples for primary, elementary, middle school, and high school grades, and practicum worksheets.

The twelve DVDs include nine DVDs that cover the nine units and other workbook sections and three DVDs that show demonstration lessons for all grade levels (broken up between Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12).

The Premium Subscription includes one year of access from the date of activation to streaming video of the entire Teaching Writing: Structure and Style teacher training course, providing instruction on the nine structural models and multiple stylistic techniques (14 hours total viewing time-may be watched all at once or viewed one disc at a time throughout the school year), free access to the online IEW Checklist Generator, streaming video of sample Student Workshops at four different grade levels to help with the first lesson, audio MP3 downloads of Andrew Pudewa's most popular conference talks, several digital PDF downloads, and content updated annually in July.

This 2nd Edition has been updated and now features an improved layout with clear practicum instructions for teachers, updated student work samples, revised video content with subtitles and a streaming option, and the Premium Subscription for the TWSS course.

This Teaching Writing Structure & Style 2nd Edition (2015) kit includes a one-year premium subscription, twelve DVDs in a leather case, and TWSS Seminar & Practicum Workbook loose-leaf pages in a three-ring binder.