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NEW! Essay Apprentice

The perfect precursor to the best-selling Essay Architect™, our Essay Apprentice™ Writing Program for grades 6-12 helps students who are unable to write a five-paragraph essay, lack the confidence to produce good writing, or need a lot of extra help with the essentials of good writing.  By building the basic foundations of writing through simple, yet practical activities, students learn the step-by-step process of creating writing they can be proud of.

  • Help students build autonomy and confidence through simple, practical, creative writing activities and exercises.

  • Help struggling or anxious writers through the basics parts of an essay by working step-by-step on each part of the writing process.

This unique, research-based, yet practical Essay Apprentice™ Writing Program includes:

Creative Writing Exercises to focus on purposes and types of writing, with several activities including:
o   Writing to Entertain
o   Writing to Inform
o   Writing to Persuade
o   and more!

Sentence Construction Activities focused on writing clean, succinct sentences that make sense:
o   Sentence Structure
o   Fragments
o   Main and Subordinate Clauses
o   Simple and Compound Sentences
o   Punctuating Sentences
o   Expanding Sentences
o   Sentence Variety
o   Sentence Combining
o   Using Modifiers
o   and more!

Paragraph Construction Activities to help students develop focused and coherent paragraphs:
o   Paragraph Structure and Formatting
o   Developing Paragraph Details
o   Types of Writing
o   Writing Thesis Statements
o   Writing Introductions
o   Writing Conclusions
o   and more!

Preparing for Formal Writing  through whole class and small group Activities:
o   Structure of the Essay
o   Evaluating Essays
o   Verbal Discussion of Ideas
o   Organizing Ideas
o   Writing Group Essays

Evaluating Model and Non-Model Essays with:
o   What Should an Essay Look Like?
o   Peer-Editing and Evaluation Activities
o   Sample Model and Non-Model Essays
o   and more!

Preparing for Individual Writing with:
o   Verbal Discussion of Ideas
o   Writing Thesis Statements
o   Individual Organization of Thoughts
o   Pre-Writing Process
o   Writing Individual Essays

Resources, Tips, and Hints, including:
o   Using a Dictionary and Thesaurus   
o   Reading an Essay Prompt
o   Essay Templates
o   Show, Don’t Tell
o   Using Idioms
o   Precise Word Choice
o   Vivid Verbs
o   Misspelled and Confusing Words
o   and more!

Plus 15 Essays for Evaluation!

 



Grades 6-12

From the Author of Essay Apprentice
and Essay Architect

Essay Apprentice Table of Contents

Writing to Entertain: Anecdotes II Sample

Fragments,
Complete Sentences,
Punctuating Sentences
Sample

Appositives Sample Pages

Varying Sentence Beginnings Sample

Writing Thesis Statements Sample

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