Wordsmithing

Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Nonfiction Writing and Analysis Skills in the High School Grades

Literacy: Made for All is a classroom-ready, teacher-friendly resource for English and Writing teachers of Grades 9 through 12. Organized buffet style, it is designed to complement an existing English curriculum by providing a tested repertoire of strategies for teaching both writing skills and literary analysis techniques.

Benefits and Features:

• tested and proven effective at all learning levels, from Remedial to Pre-AP
• provides complete lesson plans including reproducible materials
• can be implemented as is or modified to suit individual teaching styles and/or students' needs
• each skill, assignment or project begins by 'teaching the teacher', giving an inexperienced teacher the knowledge to provide effective instruction first time out and the confidence to modify and experiment thereafter
• comprised of reading, writing, literary criticism and language-study components
• moves students from writing effectively to reading analytically (approaching text from the authoring point of view), a proven, highly successful methodology
• can turn any English course into a Literacy course
• extremely versatile and cost-effective
• can deepen an existing English course or complete the framework for a new one

WORDSMITHING focuses on the creation, production and sharing of a variety of nonfiction writing projects.