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Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind Core Instructor Text: A Complete Course for Young Writers, Aspiring Rhetoricians, and Anyone Else Who Needs to Understand how English Works
Teach English grammar thoroughly , effectively , and with confidence ―no matter what your background or experience! The central teaching text in a four-year grammar program that gives students a soup-to-nuts grasp of the English language, Grammar for the Well-Trained Core Instructor Text contains all teaching scripts and examples for a full course in English grammar and mechanics. Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind takes students from basic definitions (“A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea”) through advanced sentence structure and analysis―all the grammar skills needed to write and speak with eloquence and confidence.
This innovative program combines the three essential elements of language understanding and memorizing rules (prescriptive teaching), repeated exposure to examples of how those rules are used (descriptive instruction), and practice using those rules in exercises and in writing (practical experience).
Each year, parents and teachers go through the dialogue, rules, and examples in the Core Instructor Text ; students follow along in a Workbook . This repetition solidifies the concepts, definitions, and examples in the student’s mind.
There are four Workbooks, one for each year. Each Workbook contains the same rules and examples―but four completely different sets of exercises and assignments , allowing students to develop a wide-ranging knowledge of how the rules and examples are put to use in writing.
Each Workbook comes with its own Key , providing not only answers, but also explanations for the parent/instructor, and guidance as to when the answers might be ambiguous (as, in English, they often are).
All of the rules covered, along with the repeated examples for each, are assembled for ongoing reference in the Comprehensive Handbook of Rules . This will become the student’s indispensable guide to writing through high school, into college and beyond.
The Core Instructor Text provides not only rules and examples, but scripted dialogue that makes it possible for any parent or teacher to use the program effectively, along with instructor notes that thoroughly explain ambiguities and difficulties.
This innovative program combines the three essential elements of language understanding and memorizing rules (prescriptive teaching), repeated exposure to examples of how those rules are used (descriptive instruction), and practice using those rules in exercises and in writing (practical experience).
Each year, parents and teachers go through the dialogue, rules, and examples in the Core Instructor Text ; students follow along in a Workbook . This repetition solidifies the concepts, definitions, and examples in the student’s mind.
There are four Workbooks, one for each year. Each Workbook contains the same rules and examples―but four completely different sets of exercises and assignments , allowing students to develop a wide-ranging knowledge of how the rules and examples are put to use in writing.
Each Workbook comes with its own Key , providing not only answers, but also explanations for the parent/instructor, and guidance as to when the answers might be ambiguous (as, in English, they often are).
All of the rules covered, along with the repeated examples for each, are assembled for ongoing reference in the Comprehensive Handbook of Rules . This will become the student’s indispensable guide to writing through high school, into college and beyond.
The Core Instructor Text provides not only rules and examples, but scripted dialogue that makes it possible for any parent or teacher to use the program effectively, along with instructor notes that thoroughly explain ambiguities and difficulties.
405 pages, Paperback
Published October 24, 2017
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Susan Wise Bauer
152 books1,073 followersSusan Wise Bauer is an American author, English instructor of writing and American literature at The College of William and Mary, and founder of Well-Trained Mind Press (formerly Peace Hill Press).
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