Cover all eight parts of speech and introduce more information about adjectives and adverbs, including adverb clauses. Review the five basic sentence patterns, usage concepts such as agreement and pronoun reference, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. Provide information and practice in library skills and study skills. Explain the writing process and lead students through writing projects such as a devotional, five-paragraph research report, in-class essay, comparison and contrast, writing for the media, and poetry. The two-volume Teacher's Edition provides everything a teacher needs. Book One guides the teacher with suggested scheduling, ideas for presenting English concepts, and reduced student pages with overprint answers. Book Two contains reproducibles and answer keys for diagnostic pretests, extra activities, special helps for ESL (English as a Second Language) students, guides for writing assignments, and rubrics to simplify the grading of compositions. |
