A Writer's Guide to Transitional Words and Expressions
A mini-thesaurus of the most useful transitional words and expressions, divided by category and bound in a tabbed page format, this may be the handiest writing reference you'll ever own. Helps organize ideas in time, summary, compare/contrast, cause/effect, etc., with 500 substitutes for "said."
$16.00 CAD
A Writer's Guide to Using 8 Methods of Transition
Providing examples of eight ways to connect ideas, this companion volume to Transitional Words & Expressions gives the teacher and student models to gain a better understanding of various transitions.
$13.75 CAD
A Writer's Guide to Perfect Punctuation
This comprehensive reference tool provides rules for punctuation along with clear examples to guide writers in every situation. Every punctuation mark used in modern English can be found, including the more obscure "em" dash, ellipsis, brackets, and slash.
$18.75 CAD
A Writer’s Guide to Powerful Paragraphs
Pellegrino brings laser-beam focus to what is arguably the most essential element of good writing. An easy-to use tool for teachers and advanced students, it provides definitions and practical examples for thirty different paragraph structures—a natural extension for those teaching the TWSS program at an upper level.
As a special help, we include practice assignments for each of the thirty paragraph models, providing a concrete way to practice these powerful ideas.
$26.50 CAD
Writing Tools
Writer's Guides
Author: Victor Pellegrino
Introduction to
Writer's Guides
A Word Write Now
This excellent resource is organized not by definitions or meanings—but by character qualities and behavior traits. The author further classifies words by parts of speech. This magnificent full-color ninety page spiral-bound tool makes it simple for children of all ages to find appropriate words to use in writing, specifically helping with developing characters and setting. It is really wonderful for storycomposing."
$40.00 CAD
Blended Structure and Style in Composition
Covering all nine units, Dr. Webster's core text contains abundant student samples and composition examples, charts, motivational ideas, and explanations. It is the definitive reference for the IEW writing program. Recomended for serious teachers and parents with advanced students. Indexed, illustrations, 306 pages.
$65.00 CAD
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
Simple, straightforward, and accessible, this book could also be titled “The Busy Person’s Quick Grammar Tune-up.” Ideal for teachers, parents, and secondary students whose active knowledge of grammar and punctuation may be a bit rusty, this book organizes concepts in a clear and easy-to-find format. Covering hundreds of confusing words and homonyms, grammar rules, guidelines for writing numbers, and punctuation and capitalization rules, this book is indispensable! 180 pages, paperbound.
$18.75 CAD
Fix It!
Grammar and Editing Made Easy with the Classics
Students hunt for and correct errors in Fix-It! sentences that cumulatively tell a story. Targeting different age groups from fifth grade through high school, the five stories incorporate multiple levels of difficulty. Easily adapted to the classroom, Fix-It! reinforces what you teach your students through their writing. The book contains 5 complete stories, which can provide up to five years of grammar instruction!
$37.50 CAD
Fix It
Introduction
Creative Structures & Style
A new compilation of Dr. Webster's Creative Structures and Stylistic Techniques in Creative Writing. Includes models for 3 paragraph descriptions, Rules for Dialogue sets, Flashbacks, and Anecdotal Compositions.
Literary Images unde Style include; advanced decorations such as allusion, foreshadowing, assonance and Irony, plus samples of Dr. Webster's own allegorical writing.
$10.00 CAD
Source Texts
Introduction
Source Texts
Articles and Stories for Units 1 & 2
This collection of easy paragraphs is will help you introduce the concept of Key Word Outlines and Summarizing (Units I & II). They are written at an elementary reading level and printed in a large font, so they are ideal for younger children (Gr. 1-3+), or students who have difficulty with reading and writing.
$12.00 CAD
Pictures for Unit 5
These sequential pictures were created specifically to help teach the Writing From Pictures model from the Teaching Writing: Structure and Style syllabus. These reproducible drawings have a simplicity and humor perfectly suited for nurturing creativity. Suggested outlines of sample stories for selected pictures are also provided.
$18.75 CAD
Mini-Book Set for Units 4 & 6
These Mini-Books are ideal for use in teaching Unit 6 (Summarizing Multiple References).
This set contains 38 books. By printing them back-to-back, the pages can be folded to create a mini-book to use as a source for Unit 4 or 6 writing. Roughly half of them are at a 3-6th grade reading level with the other half suitable for 6th grade up (the sample includes one book from each level). Each book contains factual information about various animals such as hummingbirds, carp, sharks and otters. Because there are three books on each animal, these short texts can be simulate a research process where multiple references would be fused (Unit 6). They can also be used singly for Unit 1 or 4 writing.
Level A Gr. 3-6 $ 12.00 CAD
Level B Gr. 6 up $13.00 CAD
