The Complete Writing Program
What Is The Complete Writing Program?
A Workshop in a Book!
The Complete Writing Program is a workshop in a book. At the very least, it will show you, step-by-step, how to build stronger, more confident writers. At its best, it will turn your class into a room full of excellent writers.
Save yourself dozens of hours correcting papers. Have you ever taught your class to write an essay or story, spent hours reading and editing every one, given each student constructive feedback, and then had them revise, edit, and publish it? If you have, you know that it can be incredibly time-consuming. Serious, meaningful conferencing between student and teacher is a luxury most teachers can’t enjoy very often. Why not work smarter, not harder? The Complete Writing Program will show you how to set up your class so your students, not you, model and reinforce the skills you teach every day!
A full year of writing instruction — $54. Includes two free eBooks:
1. How to Teach the Paragraph
2. How to Teach the Five-Paragraph Essay
Video Tour of The Complete Writing Program
Tour includes:
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One simple trick that will change your students' writing forever (2:33)
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The Power of Writing Assessment (5:12)
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Descriptive Writing (7:28)
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Writing Tricks for Building Better Sentences (15:33)
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Putting It All Together (19:46)
Testimonials
“I was amazed at how quickly these writing techniques caught on. Within weeks, my students’ writing showed vast improvement.”
- Kathy Middough, 6th Grade
“As a first-year teacher, this writing program was perfect. Everything I needed was laid out for me.”
- Traci Kinon, 5th Grade
“Teacher tested and kid-friendly, this writing program helps teachers at all levels become confident writers. Teachers found immediate results in their students’ writing when they implemented the program. The Complete Writing Program integrates reading, writing, and language and provides the structure and guidance that works with both veteran and beginning teachers.”
- MaryLynn Bachmann, Principal
How Does The Complete Writing Program Work?
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Begin by teaching your students the five key elements of great writing: covering the topic, descriptive sentences, a variety of sentence structures, appropriate vocabulary, and overall readability.
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Next, show your students how to look for the five key elements of great writing.
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Teach your students how to assess each other’s writing. They will use The Complete Writing Program’s “Writing Assessment Checklist” to identify the five key elements of writing in a classmate's writing.
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Students will score each other’s writing. In this way, they are reviewing the five key elements of writing as well as seeing them modeled within each other’s writing.
Each chapter of The Complete Writing Program shows you how to build your students’ skills in the five areas of great writing. Use the worksheets and lessons in The Complete Writing Program alongside the writing lessons from your school or district’s language arts program. Homeschool parents will find this program especially helpful as they continue to build their child’s skills in the five areas of great writing year after year.
What Are the Benefits of The Complete Writing Program?
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Save yourself dozens of hours correcting papers. The teacher does not need to correct every piece of writing assigned in order for the students to receive meaningful feedback. The students will know what great writers do and share what they’ve learned with each other during writing conferences.
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Students learn how to communicate their knowledge of writing to others. Students develop their skills in the five areas at different paces. Therefore, during writing conference time, they share their particular expertise. Your lessons become much more powerful when the students hear them again from fellow students.
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You have an army of mini-teachers in your class reinforcing the skills you’ve taught. Imagine your entire class reteaching your writing lessons to each other. You will hear your lessons repeated across your class as students use the assessment sheets to analyze each other's writing.
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Your own one-on-one conference time with the students will be more powerful. You can pinpoint problem areas within your students' writing. Furthermore, they will understand why they are weak in a certain area and begin improving.
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More lesson plans than you can use in a year. Select the lessons that are right for you and your students.
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Use these powerful lessons for your observations with the principal. Teachers who have used lessons from The Complete Writing Program for their evaluations have reported remarkable results. Administrators have been so impressed that they’ve requested workshops in order to train their entire staff.
Why Grades 3 - 12?
In theory, the five key elements of great writing can apply to emerging writers in kindergarten through grade 2. However, this program begins when the student is capable of writing a paragraph. (The Complete Writing Program will even show you how to do that.)
The five areas of great writing are the same regardless of age. The teacher will simply be building the students’ skills in the five areas at their grade level. Third graders will build their skills in the five areas at the third-grade level while twelfth graders will build their skills at the twelfth-grade level. The Complete Writing Program will help you decide what is right for your grade level.
This program has also worked in community college summer writing programs, with students in grades 4 through 8 in the same class.
Supercharge Your School's Adopted Language Arts Program
Maybe your school or district has an adopted language arts program such as those from Houghton Mifflin, SRA/Open Court, or Scholastic. Their writing ideas might be terrific. However, many of these programs teach each piece of writing and HOPE that the students can put the writing pieces together.
The Complete Writing Program supercharges these programs. When you teach writing lessons from these programs, your students will know exactly where each piece fits into the five elements of great writing. Furthermore, when you teach lessons from your language arts program, your students will automatically look to see how it fits into the five elements of great writing. Again, you will have a class full of mini-teachers helping you reach your objectives.
What Is the Value of The Complete Writing Program?
Author's Message
When I first started teaching, I spent hundreds of dollars on books and workshops to help me become a better writing teacher. Yet, at the end of each school year, I never really felt confident that I had prepared my students adequately in writing.
I began taking ideas from books, workshops, and district-approved material and altering these ideas to make them more productive. I knew that I was on to something when teachers began using my ideas in their own classrooms. When you see the improvements in your students’ writing abilities, you will see the incredible value of this program. It’s a program you buy once and learn once, and you'll use these powerful step-by-step procedures throughout your teaching career.
What is the value of this program? For about the cost of one workshop, you get a full year of lessons you’ll use for the rest of your career. I also know the joy I feel when my students skillfully use the new writing concepts that I have taught them. I feel good when I’m able to help other teachers improve the quality of their students’ writing. Finally, I’ve known great satisfaction when, at the end of the school year, I compare my students' writing to samples from the beginning of the year. It is clear that they have improved immensely. To me, this program is priceless. I want every teacher to feel the same confidence and satisfaction.
Is The Complete Writing Program Standards-Based?
YES! Not only will your students become great writers, but they will also be VERY well prepared for state standardized tests. Check your writing and grammar standards for your grade and state. The odds are great that your students will be tested on such things as:
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Main ideas within the paragraph
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Topic, supporting, and closing sentences
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Variety of sentence structures
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Vocabulary development
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Imagery
You’ll go into testing season confident your students are ready. In many cases, teachers will hear their students talking about the test after it is finished. “I saw an appositive!” “I saw an interrupter!” “I saw an adjective writing trick!” Not only are the students getting the correct answers, but they are also naming the rules that applied. The Complete Writing Program is powerful on so many levels.
Bonus Gift
Two Free eBooks:
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How to Teach the Paragraph ($9.99 value)
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How to Teach the Five Paragraph Essay ($19.95 value)
Ordering Information
Become THE writing authority at your school. Order The Complete Writing Program, Workshop in a Book!
Your Order Includes:
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The Complete Writing Program, Workshop in a Book
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Free: How to Teach the Paragraph (ebook - $9.95 Value)
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Free: How to Teach the Five-Paragraph Essay (ebook - $19.95 Value)
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