Study Language Arts Through Creative Writing!
Writing Strands Intermediate 1 explores the art of writing effectivelyand creatively! In this comprehensive course, students will discover how to structure a story, utilize topic sentences, organize information, craft written descriptions, explore voice and character position, and so much more!
Through interactive, guided exercises students will:
Learn how to connect and organize thoughts, ideas, sentences, and paragraphs
How to summarize a story
Explore narrative voice and the way in which it speaks to the reader
Create visual written descriptions
Use past tense, present tense, and future tense correctly
Recognize character positions and realize how position controls what characters know
A Comprehensive Approach
Writing Strands Intermediate 1 takes a comprehensive approach to language arts, teaching students how to construct effective paragraphs, add structure to stories, and explore narrative voice while also developing the student’s reading, writing, and speaking skills. Students will learn how to read and evaluate literature, practice spelling, analyze worldview, and write a story!
Fully Updated for a New Generation!
With over a 30 year history, Writing Strands has proven itself to be a solid, powerful tool for teaching students to write and communicate clearly. Intermediate 1 includes a convenient daily schedule and has now been fully updated, clarified, and simplified for ease of use.
Writing Strands Intermediate 1 is a hybrid course that combines Reading Strands and Writing Strands Level 4 into one course. Worksheets are now provided to add structure to reading assignments chosen by the teacher.
Students will rotate writing and reading assignments each weekthus also learning to write through literature because good readers make good writers! Additionally, the Bible is now used as the literature base for teaching how narrative voice can be used to form captivating pieces of literature.
Writing Strands Intermediate 1 Features:
Suggested Daily Schedulesaving you time!
New literature component
3-hole punched, perforated pages
Course Features:
30-45 minutes per lesson, 5x per week
Recommended Grade Level: 6 – 9
Equivalent to Writing Strands Level 4