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Writing, Elementary Program by Michael Clay Thompson

The latest in the series of innovative and revolutionary English Language Arts programs by Michael Clay Thompson.

Writing is the summative skill that combines what is learned in grammar, vocabulary and poetics as part of producing a finished piece of writing. Elementary Writing Development Sequence (pdf).

Teachers and homeschoolers find the grammar, vocabulary and poetics programs incredibly inspiring, successful and illuminating. This writing series should be used in conjunction with the rest of the program to teach students formal essay writing.

The series is stunningly illustrated with original drawings from the art of noted American artist, Milton N. Kemnitz.

You can see and hear Michael Clay Thompson talking about teaching formal writing to gifted students on our video page here.

The first of the Secondary level books in the series will be available in July 2008.

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Sentence Island: Student Book

Class sets of 25 or more: $22.00 each; includes free teacher manual. (Order Code: 6683S) Add to Cart

In response to requests from English teachers who have discovered the results that can be achieved from using his grammar and vocabulary programs, we are pleased to present Michael Clay Thompson’s series about writing.

It begins with Sentence Island, a lavishly illustrated book for third grade, gifted or fourth grade regular students. Ideally, Michael would like kids to use Grammar Island first, and then proceed on to Sentence Island, all the while working with Building Language and Music of the Hemispheres. For information on these books and the complete series, go to Michael Clay Thompson's Language Arts Curriculum.

This volume features an array of quirky animals, birds, insects, a talking tree and an amazing fish—whose name is Mud. From each character, Mud learns a different aspect of sentence structure. These rules and concepts are the essential foundation students need for formal writing assignments.

This eagerly anticipated book teaches in a lively way some advanced concepts. Understanding these concepts enables students to write sentences that make sense, communicate ideas and impart information. Its approach and the wonderful illustrations, demonstrate too that it can be fun to write well.

The next book in the writing series is Paragraph Town.

Sample pages: 14 to 18 | 36 to 37 | 48 to 49 | 62 to 63 | 64 to 65

Sentence Island: Teacher Manual

Paragraph Town: Student Book

Class sets of 25 or more: $20.00 each. (Order Code: 6706S) Add to Cart

Paragraph Town is at the same level as Grammar Town, Caesar's English I and Building Poems. With these four books, teachers are now able to implement a full language arts curriculum strongly grounded in the fundamentals.

This new book gives children an entertaining and comprehensive introduction to the paragraph. It has an extensive and structured Teacher Manual with twenty lessons, in-depth exposition and assignments.

The protagonists who teach the concepts to be learned are two engaging ducks who explore the importance of organizing sentences into orderly paragraphs; some of the different kinds of paragraphs--dialogue, description, expository, comparison; punctuation as well as grammar.

Sample pages: 14 to 18 | 56 to 59 | 64 to 67

Paragraph Town: Teacher Manual

Essay Voyage: Student Book

Class sets of 25 or more: $20.00 each; includes free teacher manual. (Order Code: 6720S) Add to Cart

In what will be an indispensable book for English teachers and all teachers of gifted children, Essay Voyage explicates the elements of the correct, formal essay—the essay expected for essay exams, research papers, critical responses, and other formal analyses of academic subjects. With the use of extensive examples and thorough explanation, we see that formal writing involves the correct use of words, sentences, paragraphs, punctuation and other elements such as organized structure and unity.

The book has a journeying theme that takes us around the world. Each chapter is followed by exercises, challenging questions, examples of good essays and a discussion of the correct use of words taken from Caesar’s English Volume 2.

Essay Voyage Sample Pages 1.5 MB PDF document

Essay Voyage: Teacher Manual