Includes everything you need:

Unit One: Grammar

Identify and apply activities for writing sentences:

• Subjects and Predicates
  – complete and simple
• Complete and incomplete sentences
• Types of sentences and punctuation marks
  – declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory
  – period, question mark, and exclamation point

Identify and apply activities for parts of speech:

• Common and proper nouns
• Singular and plural nouns
• Pronouns and antecedents
• Singular possessive and plural possessive nouns
• Adjectives
• Action verbs
• Linking verbs
• Past, present, and future verb tense
• Adverbs that modify verbs

Identify and apply activities for common problems:

• Pronoun/antecedent agreement
• Subject/verb agreement
• Contractions
• Don’t/doesn’t problem

Tools for Effective Communication: Apply Parts of Speech

• Adjectives in action
• Action verbs in action
• Adverbs in action

Apply Sentence Structure

• Writing items in a series
• Simple sentences
• Compound sentences
• Incomplete and run-on sentences

Unit Two: Composition

The Writing Process

• brainstorm, organize, draft, revise, final draft

Follow the writing process for:

• Paragraphs
• Expository paragraph
• Expository personal letter
• Persuasive paragraph
• Persuasive personal letter
• Descriptive paragraph
• Imaginative narrative
• Research project
  – research process
  – presentation board

Additional composition skills:

• parts of a paragraph
• staying on topic
• expository writing
• persuasive writing
• descriptive writing and sensory details
• parts of a letter
• chronological order and transitions
• parts of a narrative: hook, events, climax, closing

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

Additional Student Level 3 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
  14 grammar assessments, 5 composition assessments, and 2 comprehensive unit assessments.
• Resources
  A personal spelling dictionary, sensory word list, action verb list, descriptive adjective and action verb word lists, and additional graphic organizers and composition checklists.
  

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