Unit One: Grammar

Identify and apply activities for writing sentences:

• Letter, word, and sentence formation
• Spacing, capitalization, and punctuation of sentences
  – period, question mark, and exclamation mark
• Introduction to complete sentences
  – subjects and predicates
• Types of sentences
  – declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative

Identify and apply activities for parts of speech

• Common nouns
• Proper nouns
• Singular and plural nouns
• Adjectives
• Action verbs

Tools for Effective Communication: Apply Parts of Speech

• Adjectives in action

Unit Two: Composition

Introduction to Writing:

• Lists
• Paragraphs
• Personal Letters
• Personal Narratives
• Imaginative Narratives

Additional Composition Skills:

•  Parts of a paragraph
• Staying on topic
• Parts of a personal letter
• Writing the date
• Chronological order
• Parts of a personal and an imaginative narrative

(Additional Workbook compatible only with second edition Essentials in Writing video instruction)

Additional Student Level 1 Second Edition Workbook

This is an instructional manual/student workbook for an ADDITIONAL student using the same level of video instruction. Please note that this workbook is not functional without the related video instruction.

(Assessment/Resource Booklet is compatible only with second edition Essentials in Writing curriculum)

Assessment/Resource Booklet

• Assessments
  10 grammar assessments, 4 composition assessments, and 2 comprehensive unit tests
• Resources
  A personal spelling dictionary with common hard-to-spell words and space to add more words, and multiple graphic organizers.

Essentials in Writing comes with your choice of ONLINE streaming or DVD video instruction

• ONLINE STREAMING
  12 month access to ONLINE lesson-by-lesson video instruction (If you choose this option, DVDs will not be shipped)
• DVD
  DVDs are shipped alongside the Textbook/Workbook (If you choose this option, you will not have online video access)