- The Continuation Courses are 10-DVD sets of lessons which pick up where the Student Writing Intensives leave off.
- Each SICC can be purchased as a complete course or, for the sake of spreading out you investment, can be purchased as a half-course with an accompanying Workbook for each half.
- Each Workbook is organized into fifteen weeks of lessons, like the SWI Workbooks, introducing new styles, structures and enhanced vocabulary to further improve the student's writing.
Canadian Student Workbooks
- Thousands of Canadian students have benefited from the workbooks that have been written by Excellent Resources to accompany the teaching on the Student Intensive Continuation Courses.
- Expanded into 15 weeks of lessons with approximately 4 lessons per week, each workbook supplements each half-course of the SICC with 60 additonal assignments for more practice with the concepts taught on the DVD's.
- Parents and teachers have found these extremely valuable as ready-made lesson plans which enable them to jump-start the writing process immediately.
- Each workbook could take a school year to complete at 2 lessons per week.
SICC (A, B or C Complete Set) DVDs Only: $290.00 CAD
SICC DVD Half Sets Available:
Part 1- $150.00; Part 2- $140.00 CAD
SICC Workbook (A-1, A-2, B-1, B-2 or C-1, C-2): $29.95 CAD
More Information:
Recorded live during the Spring of 2002, this ten-lesson series picks up right where the SWI leaves off. Students continue to use their same notebook and charts, learning new models and techniques not previously presented in the SWI. Along with the source material for each lesson, checklists, teacher grading sheets (beginning with week three), and student samples are provided on CD-ROM.
Prerequisites:
This course assumes that the student has completed the Student Writing Intensive either live or on video. Although some review is embedded in the presentations, students should have a fair understanding of the concepts presented in the SWI, including: key word outlining, story sequence chart, topic-clincher paragraph, “notes from the brain”, “dress-ups”, and some sentence openers.
Course Dynamics:
These classes were originally presented one per week, and assignments were given with the intention that the students would complete them within four or five days. Although some children do the course independently, a better option is viewing with a parent, or in a small group, or as part of a class. A lesson overview list is provided to help make each week’s goal as clear as possible, but marking papers is the responsibility of the parent or teacher.
Who Should Purchase This Course?
This course is not meant to be a replacement for a real teacher using the Teaching Writing: Structure and Style program. It is designed for students who enjoyed the Student Writing Intensive classes so much they just want more, for families or teachers who want to further improve their teaching of writing and would benefit from exposure to a more comprehensive set of demonstration lessons, or for students whose primary writing instruction does not include Structure & Style, and who wish to supplement what they learn in school.
What Course Should You Purchase?
- Students who completed the Student Writing Intensive Level A live or video course are ready for SICC-A.
- Students who completed the SWI level B course are ready for SICC-B.
- Students who completed SWI level C are ready for SICC-C.
- Furthermore, students who completed SICC-A are ready for SICC-B, and those completing SICC-B are ready for SICC-C.
The SICC includes a CD-ROM which has all the handouts for completing the DVDs as they were recorded: in 10 intensive lessons.
Student Intensive Continuation Courses
Personal, Live Online Instruction is available through Webster's Academy for Excellence in Writing in the Writing methods offered on this page.
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