How to Build Strong Writing goes beyond a typical textbook or workbook. It is a comprehensive guide that engages young writers, encouraging them to explore the nuances of the English language and establish a solid groundwork for future writing achievements. This book is essential for students in the eighth to twelfth grade.
Benefits:
- Students: Improved writing clarity, enhanced sentence analysis and construction skills, boosted confidence in academic tasks, and a solid grammatical base for advanced studies.
- Educators: Primary teaching tool or supplementary resource, time-saving preparation, increased student engagement, and assessment support.
- Parents, Tutors, Homeschool Programs: User-friendly layout, flexible pacing, comprehensive content, all-in-one grammar and writing resource, an aid for independent learning.
Meticulously structured to guide students through the basics of forming simple sentences, this book lays a strong foundation for writing. It is divided into detailed chapters, each covering crucial grammatical and syntactical concepts in sequence: review of parts of speech and detailing their relevance to their use in basic sentence patterns; the expansion of sentence structure with descriptive words and phrases to cultivate a mature writing style. To ensure students enhance their knowledge as they progress, every chapter begins with a clear concept explanation followed by interactive exercises that reinforce learning and add an element of creativity and thematic fun.
- Suitable for All Ages: While targeted at eighth and ninth graders, its clear explanations make it adaptable for advanced younger learners or older students in need of a refresher. Chapters are easily adjustable to accommodate individual students' learning styles and paces.
- Inspirational: The book features motivational insights and words of encouragement to motivate students and emphasize the importance of persistence and practice in mastering writing skills. Extension activities encourage writing on disciplines across the curriculum.
- Self-Assessment: The book includes an answer key to aid skill evaluation and deepen understanding of key concepts.
Chapter One: Foundations of Construction
Revisiting the Building Blocks of Language
Parts of Speech: A Look at the Toolbox and the Essential Building Supplies
Chapter Two: Three Choices in Writing Sentences
To Achieve Your Message's Purpose, Look DEEPER in the Toolbox
To Say What You Mean to Say, Look even DEEPER in the Toolbox
Chapter 3: Architects at Work
The Blueprint: Designing Sentences with Purpose
Message + Purpose + Diction + Syntax = Communication
The Blueprint: Understanding Subjects and Predicates
Introduction to Sentence Constructions
The Blueprint: Understanding Direct Objects
The Blueprint: Understanding Indirect Objects
Adding New Sentence Pattern Structures: Action Verbs vs. Linking Verbs
The Blueprint: Predicate Nominatives
The Blueprint: Predicate Adjectives
Chapter 4: Adding Descriptive Details
Architects at Work: Expanding Sentences with Adjectives
Expanding with Adverbs
Chapter 5: Adding Phrases to Sentence Patterns
Introduction to Phrases
Prepositional Phrases as Adjectives
Prepositional Phrases as Adverbs
Chapter 5: Adding Appositives and Appositive Phrases
Chapter 6: More Phrases Used as Different Parts of Speech