Essential Learning Standards
Our Goal
Essentials in Writing is a complete writing curriculum designed to meet writers where they are. Mr. Stephens’s step-by-step approach, using small bite-sized chunks of learning, appeals to students, including even the most reluctant writers. Our goal at Essentials in Writing is to help struggling writers gain confidence in their writing ability and challenge accomplished writers to also improve their writing.
Essentials in Writing
Levels 1-6
Essentials in Writing addresses multiple learning standards that students need in order to be efficient writers, not only for school, but also in life. Essentials in Writing begins with the basic building blocks for writing and gradually builds through a scaffolding process as the levels progress. Please click below to see the sequence of the learning standards for levels 1-6.
Essentials in Writing- Levels 7-12
Essentials in Writing progresses through the middle and high school years by continuing the same approach and teaching writing that will be needed in other subjects besides language arts. Levels 7-12 begin to taper the amount of grammar instruction provided and build the amount and type of writing activities. Please click below to see the sequence of the learning standards for levels 7-12.
Standards by Topic
Essentials in Literature Levels 7-11
Essentials in Literature is the companion curriculum to Essentials in Writing and addresses the literary analysis needed for a comprehensive middle school or high school level language arts program. By using the same step-by-step approach as Essentials in Writing, Essentials in Literature teaches students to critically analyze literary works across a variety of genres including fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry. The learning standards for Essentials in Literature will be available soon, so please check back shortly.
