HiddenJewel
06-01-2008, 03:36 PM
Name of curriculum: Igniting Your Writing
Common Abbreviation:
Which aspect of LA: Composition
Age range of students: 8+
Educational Philosophy: see master list (http://www.thehomeschoollibrary.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4)
Worldview: Secular
Website: http://www.homeschoolwriting.com/Igniting_Your_Writing.html
Review: Multi-level writing curriculum offers 24 lessons covering 6 areas of writing skills needed for any kind of writing. Each lesson has 3 levels: Startup, Intermediate, and Advanced. Choose the level based on the student’s writing ability rather than age or grade.
A quote from the website:
Igniting Your Writing! helps all young writers:
experiment with words
use stronger verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs
expand creativity
write with sparkle, energy and variety
learn to rewrite and enjoy it!
Have you used this curriculum? What levels? My daughter used Levels 1 and 2 in 6th grade.
Strengths: Simple yet effective
Weaknesses:
Comments:
My dd used both IYW 1&2 in 6th grade and the comment she made was that it added pizazz and helped her writing more colorful. It doesn't go into into report writing. Level 1 deals more with different pieces that you need for effective writing. Level 2goes more into outlining and specific writing types such as to entertain, to inform, and to persuade.
The lessons in Igniting Your Writing were so practical. They were like pieces of a puzzle that were all put together by the end of the course. They were lessons you could sink your teeth into and run with, yet they were simple.
The lessons in IGW1 have 3 different skill levels that you can choose from depending on your student. You can use it with multiple students or you can take the same student through it at different times using different levels.
CurrClick has good samples of both levels. IGW2 has separate lessons for Intermediate and Advanced. There is no beginning level in IGW2.
There is a Teacher's Guide at the back of each book.
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Common Abbreviation:
Which aspect of LA: Composition
Age range of students: 8+
Educational Philosophy: see master list (http://www.thehomeschoollibrary.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4)
Worldview: Secular
Website: http://www.homeschoolwriting.com/Igniting_Your_Writing.html
Review: Multi-level writing curriculum offers 24 lessons covering 6 areas of writing skills needed for any kind of writing. Each lesson has 3 levels: Startup, Intermediate, and Advanced. Choose the level based on the student’s writing ability rather than age or grade.
A quote from the website:
Igniting Your Writing! helps all young writers:
experiment with words
use stronger verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs
expand creativity
write with sparkle, energy and variety
learn to rewrite and enjoy it!
Have you used this curriculum? What levels? My daughter used Levels 1 and 2 in 6th grade.
Strengths: Simple yet effective
Weaknesses:
Comments:
My dd used both IYW 1&2 in 6th grade and the comment she made was that it added pizazz and helped her writing more colorful. It doesn't go into into report writing. Level 1 deals more with different pieces that you need for effective writing. Level 2goes more into outlining and specific writing types such as to entertain, to inform, and to persuade.
The lessons in Igniting Your Writing were so practical. They were like pieces of a puzzle that were all put together by the end of the course. They were lessons you could sink your teeth into and run with, yet they were simple.
The lessons in IGW1 have 3 different skill levels that you can choose from depending on your student. You can use it with multiple students or you can take the same student through it at different times using different levels.
CurrClick has good samples of both levels. IGW2 has separate lessons for Intermediate and Advanced. There is no beginning level in IGW2.
There is a Teacher's Guide at the back of each book.
FTC Disclosure: PLEASE NOTE: This is a “For Profit” site. The Library makes commissions on products sold through affiliate and advertiser links. The products reviewed here may or may not have an affiliate link (most don’t), but we want you to be aware that it is a possibility. Whether this affiliation affects the objectivity of the reviews here is debatable. We don’t think it does, but that’s up to you to decide. If you want to know about a specific product, please feel free to ask. For a full list of current affiliates, check out the Affiliate Forum.