This series of six books has the explicit, overarching aim of teaching the skills and strategies required to improve the clarity, correctness and richness of children's writing.
Here they are taught to recognise, choose and use specific strategies. As in the series
Teaching comprehension strategies, the focus is on the process, rather than on practising, in this instance, specific text types. To this end, priority is given to improving writing at the sentence level.
With a strong hands-on approach; the empahsis is on students structuring correct, enriched sentences to more clearly convey ideas and information, with the ultimate goal of producing clear, precise writing for a specific purpose with an understanding of the importance of proofreading and editing in the writing process.
Each book is divided into four sections:
- word choices
- sentence structure
- punctuation
- editing/proofreading
Each section has four work units and one assessment unit of four pages with a related writing topic and each six-page work unit has a specified focus, two teacher pages and four activity pages.
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