Diana King's "Writing Skills" series
by Founder Diana Hanbury King
Writing Skills Grades 2–12(Second Edition)
Writing Skills - Teacher’s Edition (new 2004 edition)
Writing Skills A - Student Workbook (grades 2-3)
Writing Skills I - Student Workbook (grades 4-6)
Writing Skills II - Student Workbook (grades 7-8)
Writing Skills III - Student Workbook (grades 10-12)
Research shows that explicit instruction benefits both struggling and proficient writers. For the reluctant, at-risk, and beginning writer, this comprehensive program provides an essential foundation in thinking and writing skills. For the proficient and advanced, it offers strategies, techniques, and opportunities to apply them.
Students who spell correctly and write legibly receive the highest scores on standardized assessments. With special instruction in spelling, handwriting, and keyboarding, the Writing Skills series addresses important skills that many writing curricula take for granted.
The Writing Skills Second Edition books are available now from epsbooks.com.
Cursive Writing Skills (new 2005 edition)
Available in left and right-handed editions, Cursive Writing Skills focuses on students who have not mastered cursive writing. Taught in a logical, step-by-step manner, this book emphasizes handwriting as an integral component in any multisensory approach to writing and spelling. Compatible with the composition texts, it fosters capable and confident writers.
The Cursive Writing Skills books are available now from epsbooks.com.
Keyboarding Skills (new 2005 edition)
Grades 3–A
Concise instructions and simple format make Keyboarding Skills appropriate for students of all ages. The multisensory and kinesthetic approach is effective with dyslexic students. The book forms its own easel for ergonomic comfort.
The Keyboarding Skills book is available now from epsbooks.com
English Isn't Crazy
The Elements of Our Language and How to Teach Them by Diana Hanbury King • Available from proed.com
The English Language is filled with spelling and pronunciation challenges...words like buffet, cousin, canyon, dwindle, and mosquito. Where do they come from? How did they become a part of our language?
Concisely written and easy-to-understand, this booklet traces the English language from its origins to the complex and extensive vocabulary we use today. You'll be well-prepared to help your students appreciate the influence of other languages...see how important historical events spawned new words...and value the contributions of William Shakespeare and the Bible.
Plus, seven appendices containing thought-provoking exercises and helpful ideas give you practical methods for expanding your classroom discussions.
by Karen Leopold
This notebook is not a teaching manual. It is intended as a reference for students and is written using simple language with cues designed specifically for different learning styles.
Student Notebook I - Basic:
- Handwriting Checklists: Printing and Cursive
- Sight Word Checklists
- Graphemes and Phonemes for Reading and Spelling
- Scope and Sequence Checklists
- Important Facts about Letters
- Consonants and Short Vowel Sounds
- Long Vowel Sounds
- Consonant and Vowel Sound Combinations
- Six Kinds of Syllables
- Syllable Division
- Spelling Final Stable Syllables
- 21 Spelling Patterns
- and more...
Student Notebook II - Advanced:
- Identifying Words of Anglo-Saxon, Latin, Greek, and French Origin
- Prefixes
- Chameleon Prefixes
- Roots
- Suffixes
- Latin Connectives
- The Latin /shun/ Suffix
- Morpheme Division Zoo Rules
- Accenting & the Schwa
- Final Stable Syllables
- Advanced Doubling Rule
- and more...
Contact Karen Leopold at kleopold@kildonan.org or visit her website at http://geocities.com/studentnotebook/ for additional information and pricing.
