Teach the eight parts of speech, verbal phrases clauses, usage, and mechanics. Review the seven sentence patterns. Introduce advanced concepts such as tense sequence, perfect verbals, and adverbial nouns. Reference chapters include library skills and study skills. Lead students through the writing process and teach writing strategies such as variety, emphasis, and sentence logic. Writing projects include research paper, literary analysis, folktale, narrative poem, hymn, analytical essay, interview, memoir, analogy, in-class essay, and letter to the editor.
A two-volume Teacher Edition provides everything you need. Book One gives you suggested scheduling, ideas for presenting English concepts, and reduced student pages with overprint answers. Book Two contains reproducibles and answer keys for diagnostic pretests, extra activities, special helps for ESL (English as a Second Language) students, guides for writing assignments, and rubrics to simplify the grading of compositions.
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