The Curriculum
The Writing Garden curriculum teaches writing skills using the writing process "seeds"of pre-writing, drafting, editing, proofreading and publishing "fertilized" with the six traits of Ideas, Organization, Word Choice, Voice, Sentence Fluency, and Conventions in meaningful and practical activities designed to make better writers.
The curriculum is a 12 week course covered in a 170 page book with with DVD presentations of all lessons. This means teachers can teach students how to write sentences, paragraphs and essays with confidence!
Intelligently simple, each volume was written using research based fundamentals and practical experience to teach writing in an easy to understand and easy to use format so you can grow the "write" crop!
In each 12 week volume, you can expect:
The curriculum is a 12 week course covered in a 170 page book with with DVD presentations of all lessons. This means teachers can teach students how to write sentences, paragraphs and essays with confidence!
Intelligently simple, each volume was written using research based fundamentals and practical experience to teach writing in an easy to understand and easy to use format so you can grow the "write" crop!
In each 12 week volume, you can expect:
- All lessons on DVD
- clear focus on a specific writing product in addition to overall writing skills
- 12 week curriculum
- multimedia and online activities
- a day-by-day, week-by-week Table of Contents chart
- full answer keys, self-evaluation checklists and other teacher evaluation tools
- a midterm & final exam
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~Fundamental writing skills are interwoven throughout the curriculum~
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Seeds - The Writing Process
The Writing Process, also known as your seeds, is the starting place for all writing. Without seeds, you will grow nothing but weeds, right? So that's why our tools are matched with these specific seeds. We know that without them, the best tools in the world will not be able to cultivate the write crop.
As you look to the chart on the left, you will see that the writing process is very ordered. Just as a gardener will make neat rows and columns for his/her seedlings, you too will use a very organized procedure for writing.
Of course, you will need soil to plant them in and that soil is your own creative mind. It doesn't get any more organic than that! You might be thinking that your soil could use a little more nutrition and that's where our fertilizer comes in!
As you look to the chart on the left, you will see that the writing process is very ordered. Just as a gardener will make neat rows and columns for his/her seedlings, you too will use a very organized procedure for writing.
Of course, you will need soil to plant them in and that soil is your own creative mind. It doesn't get any more organic than that! You might be thinking that your soil could use a little more nutrition and that's where our fertilizer comes in!
The Fertilizer - The 6 Traits of Writing
We refer to the 6 traits of writing as fertilizer. This is because as one is working with the seeds of the writing process, it is necessary to feed the soil & seeds the nutrients that will help them blossom into strong, productive plants.
These nutrients come from fertilizer - the 6 traits fertilizer! Each of the traits add something important to the development of your write crop.
-Ideas are the "plant" you have chosen to grow (the "plant" is the type of writing your are working to produce such as an expository essay for example.)
-Organization is the shape of that plant
-Voice is the depth of color in your plant
-Sentence Fluency & Conventions are the strength of the body of your plant
-Word Choice is the yield of your plant
Put all this together with the right attention and tools and you will have a wonderful writing crop!
These nutrients come from fertilizer - the 6 traits fertilizer! Each of the traits add something important to the development of your write crop.
-Ideas are the "plant" you have chosen to grow (the "plant" is the type of writing your are working to produce such as an expository essay for example.)
-Organization is the shape of that plant
-Voice is the depth of color in your plant
-Sentence Fluency & Conventions are the strength of the body of your plant
-Word Choice is the yield of your plant
Put all this together with the right attention and tools and you will have a wonderful writing crop!