Weekly Writing the IEW Way

🌟General🌟
This weekly writing class is taught using the IEW method by a certified IEW instructor and includes weekly writing homework for practice of in class skills.  Whether your learner has previous experience with IEW or not, this is a great class for building writing skills, especially for reluctant writers who don't seem to have ideas or starting points for beginning to write.

✨Class Structure✨
Each week, a new unit, style of writing, will be introduced to learners.  During the first class, learners will practice using a key word outline to jot down writing ideas and create a roadmap for what they will write.  This is working on the STRUCTURE of writing, or the foundation for what learners will write.  The second class of the week will focus on the STYLE of writing and will include dress ups such as strong verbs, ly adverbs, quality adjective, and more as well as and sentence starters that learners can use to add interest to their writing and vary sentence structures.  At the end of the week, learners will use our keyword outline produced in class and skills taught to be able to write their own paragraphs for homework (in class if time allows).

⭐Weekly Breakdown⭐
                                                          
Aug 6 Unit 1: Note Taking and Outlines                                       
Aug 13 Unit 2: Writing From Notes                                           
Aug 20 Unit 3: Retelling Narratives                                             
Aug 27 retelling narratives                                                        
Sept 3:  retelling narratives 
Sept 10: retelling narratives                                        
Sept 17: personal narrative                                                           
Sept 24 Unit 4: Summarizing a Reference                               
Oct 1 summarizing a reference  
Oct 8: Summarizing a 2 paragraph reference                                            J
Oct 15: summarizing a topic of your choice                          
Oct 22:  Unit 5 Writing from Pictures            
Oct 29: Writing From Pictures                                         
Nov 5 writing from pictures                                                     
Nov 12 Unit 7 inventive writing                                                  
Nov 19: Student Inventive Writing
*Units will repeat but the text (sources from IEW) will change to avoid repetition

💥Class Structure💥
🕰Time Spent in Class
Class 1:
5 minutes of vocabulary introduction
5 minutes of text
15 minutes of brainstorming and creating a keyword outline
5 minutes of writing in class

Class 2: 
5 minutes of vocabulary review
10 minutes of stylistic introduction and practice
15 minutes of writing and adding stylistic applications

🕰Time Spent Out of Class (optional)
Day 1 after class: Finish key word outline and practice retelling to an adult
Day 2: Use retell and write paragraphs 
Day 3 after class: add stylistic techniques to written paragraph and include vocabulary words if possible
Day 4: edit paragraphs and write final copy

If learners remain in class through all units, the following skills will be covered:
✔writing from an outline to provide structure and organization to writing
✔topic sentences and clincher sentences for cohesion
✔editing of paragraphs that students choose to submit to teachers
✔stylistic techniques added to paragraphs such as ly adverbs, strong verbs, quality adjectives, because clauses, who/which clauses, and other dependent clauses
✔sentences openers for variation such as prepositional openers, ly openers, ing openers and more
✔vocabulary word practice so students have a bank of words to choose from when improving papers - you can't write what you don't know!
✔asking questions to know what to write and come up with ideas
✔using key words to create appropriate titles