Religious Worldview The Elegant Essay Writing Lessons: Building Blocks for Analytical Writing---Teacher/Student Combo, 3rd Edition
The Elegant Essay is a comprehensive essay-building course that improves students' writing skills. It covers essay structure, content, and style, advancing towards descriptive and persuasive essays. Students are encouraged to write well through clear exercises. The course includes a teacher's manual, student book, and access to an e-resource download. This course may be adapted to cover 3-4 weeks or 13-16 weeks. It's an excellent extension and refinement of IEW'sTeaching Writing: Structure & Style Unit VIII.
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The Elegant Essay is a course that walks students through the process of building an essay. It covers everything from creating captivating introductions to writing compelling descriptions. The focus is on both the form and content of an essay and the course is designed to help students improve their thesis sentences, organization, transitions, conclusions and other elements of successful writing.
The author writes in a conversational style that makes it easy for students to understand. The course includes clear explanations and practice exercises that help students to develop their writing skills. The Elegant Essay is an excellent extension and refinement of IEW's Teaching Writing: Structure & Style Unit VIII.
The Elegant Essay Units cover a range of topics including thesis statements, essay organization, transitions, introductions, conclusions, advanced thesis statements and planning charts, descriptive practice essays, and persuasive practice essays.
The Elegant Essay Teacher's Manual includes all the information needed to teach the course including scheduling, structure, grading, and daily lessons. The manual also provides examples, teaching hints, models, and lesson-specific issues.
Each lesson begins with instruction in the students' book. After instruction, teachers model each lesson concept and lead students through assignments. Students are then allowed to practice ideas in a group or with the teacher and finally complete a second set of on your own exercises independently.
This kit includes The Elegant Essay Writing Lessons Student Book, which is 144 pages and spiral-bound softcover. It is reproducible for in-family use only. The Elegant Essay Teacher's Manual is 100 pages and spiral-bound softcover. The kit also provides access to The Elegant Essay e-resource download. The course may be adapted to cover 3-4 weeks or 13-16 weeks and two sample schedules are included.
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Subject: Language Arts
Grade: Grade 9-Grade 12
Brand: Institute for Excellence in Writing
Author: Lesha Myers
UPC: 9781623410957
