Wordsmith Apprentice
by Janie B. Cheaney Author
All the practicality, humor and fun of Wordsmith, but written for the younger student, ages 9-12. An easy to use writing course encouraging students to develop their writing skills as they participate in every role on a newspaper staff: editor, reporter, writer, etc. Children develop a love for writing as they express themselves through sentence and paragraph writing, persuasive writing, and much more. The third edition has a larger font and cleaner type for easier reading. With added examples and delightful new illustrations, developing writing skills is made fun and easy.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 978-1929683543
- Print Status
- In Print
- Lessons
- 25
- Suggested Grades
- 4th - 6th
Lessons
- 1 Introduction (5-11)
- 2 Nouns (12-20)
- 3 Verbs (21-28)
- 4 Sentence Structure (29-36)
- 5 Sentence Writing (37-45)
- 6 Modifiers (46-57)
- 7 Prepositions (57-62)
- 8 Staff Meeting for Sentence Review (63)
- 9 Editors and Reporters (64-65)
- 10 Advertising (66-69)
- 11 Real Estate Boom (69-71)
- 12 Travel Writing (71-74)
- 13 Reading Reviewers (75)
- 14 Editor's Desk: What Is a Paragraph (80-86)
- 15 Writers at Home (87-92)
- 16 Synopsis Specialists (92-94)
- 17 Contest Time (95-96)
- 18 Editor's Desk: Who, What, Where, When, How (97)
- 19 Reporting (98-104)
- 20 Fascinating Funnies (Dialogue) (105-108)
- 21 Practice Your Hook (108-111)
- 22 Reporters Fill in Blanks (111-114)
- 23 Investigating (114-120)
- 24 Opinion Writing (121-126)
- 25 New Challenges (127)
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