I just wanted to share what we did yesterday for our writing class. During the previous session the kids were assigned to write a paragraph about a Protestant...
Liz, Great job! The presentation and evaluation will help the kids improve thier public speaking skills. Keep it up. This will help prepare the kids for the ...
I have been working on who/which clauses with my reluctant son for 2 months. We are both so frustrated. He tries over and over to use which or who as glue to...
Thank you for the great idea of visiting a debate tournament this spring. I have often wondered what these were really all about, that I **should** get my...
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TAYCEDBURG@...
Nov 1, 2002 6:37 pm
Hi Susan - We are new to IEW-I just attended Andrew's seminar in Sept. I must say, we have not had such fun before in writing. We have really come up with...
Ellen, Thank you so much for the encouragement. You are right, the fun is gone. I want his papers to be **right** and it is hard to over look so much, ...
Susan, I'd recommend just spend a lot of time modeling the use of this yourself and then having him practice it on individual sentences utilizing the dress-up ...
Lisa, Thank you for your suggestions. I think the idea of using isolated sentences could be great. I could even select sentences from his writing that I think ...
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Keenanskool@...
Nov 2, 2002 1:19 am
Please forgive my inexperience with how to 'get around' within a ''group", but would someone please explain what I need to do to find the 'files' that have...
Christine, I've checked your membership in our group and I see that you do not have a Yahoo ID. That tells me that you are probably not registered with the ...
Susan, would you mind sharing your aforementioned "4 or 5 guidelines" with us? Because of your message, I began looking back over the most recent posts on the...
Hi, Christine--If you are giving the students an opportunity to share what they've written, you are providing them with an audience--an essential part of the...
... who/which directly off of the outline notes. So, I've been editing after the paragraphs have been rewritten, and as we read a paragraph we try to find a...
Lisa, This sounds like a very good approach. I agree, it is frustrating trying to dress up as they write the first draft, so we will give this a try. Susan in...
Thank you Deanne for the great ideas and to Martha in Texas; I got hooked up on Yahoo now and found what I was looking for. Christine in NH [Non-text portions...
Can someone jump in here and help us with a small problem we seem to be having? On day one we do key word outlines and tell backs. We save the writing into ...
When introducing the source text, do you have the kids read it aloud? Perhaps that would help their memory--as well as an oral narration *before* notetaking,...
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Mamastamp@...
Nov 4, 2002 4:07 pm
In a message dated 11/4/2002 5:59:57 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... Hi, Lisa, although I usually have my kids do the kwo and rough draft at the same sitting, we...
I was getting a lot of redundancy with who which clauses. So, this may be simplistic, but I told my students that the ww clause must add new information to...
Hi, I'm doing Bible-Based writing lessons with my 6th grader. We are both having a difficult time writing "who-which" clauses without the words "is, are, was,...
We are both having a difficult time writing "who-which" clauses without the words "is, are, was, were". Sylvia, How about: "The whale, which spy-hops out of...
... What about moving the who/which to a different part of the sentence? Option 1. Whales, which... Option 2. Whales are warm blooded swimmers which... ...
Does IEW address the use of "THAT" verses "which" in a sentence? Is it an advanced issue or something else? In the whale sentences in a previous post, my ear...
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Andrew Pudewa
iew@...
Nov 6, 2002 1:45 am
It's totally OK to reread the original as many times as necessary. Andrew. ... Andrew Pudewa Institute for Excellence in Writing PO Box 6065, Atascadero, CA...
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Susan Tunison
stuni@...
Nov 6, 2002 1:58 am
For Sylvia about removing "to be" verbs from who/which clauses. We spent almost half of one of our class times going over this because almost all of the...
It's totally OK to reread the original as many times as necessary. Andrew Thanks to all for your help and input! I truly appreciate the availability of this...
Last week I mentioned the guidelines I had made for my son. Deanne asked if I would post them. I'm sorry it has taken so long. I like the guidelines you pulled...
Thanks, Susan, for sharing your step-by-step guide. I actually think this will work quite well for the beginner who tends to think sequentially, so I intend...
Thank you so much for the wonderful suggestions! I feel much more capable of teaching my son how to use a "who-which" clause without including those "to be" ...
