The Write Foundation
By: Rebecca Celsor
Price: curriculum packages are 65.00- 100.00$
Format: A bound teacher’s workbook, a loose leaf student workbook
The Write Foundation makes language arts programs for the middle school and older group. This material is no frills, simple black and white worksheets. Which can be great for the easily distracted child. Not so engaging for a more visually engaging child.
Here is a snippet from the The Write Foundation’s site showing you the language arts programs they have.
Start at the Sentence to Paragraph Writing Level 1: Ages 11 – 13
- If your student has any run ons or incomplete sentences when he writes on his own.
- If your student hates writing.
- If your student primarily writes simple sentences.
Start at the Paragraph Writing Level 2: Ages 12 – 15
- If your student understands the writing process of basic brainstorm, outline, rough draft, edit, final copy.
- If your student usually writes descriptive sentences, which includes adjectives, adverbs and participles.
- If your student can follow directions.
Start at the Essay Writing Level 3: Ages 14 – 17
- If your student understands and knows how to effectively use the writing process of brainstorm, outline, rough draft, edit, final copy.
- If your student knows how to write a proper, standard outline for a 3-4 paragraph paper.
- If your student uses a variety of words and minimizes repetition.
- If your student has been introduced to transitions.
- If your student is familiar with basic figures of speech.
For this review I got the choice of programs. I went strictly by the age range recommendations. We reviewed the Sentence to Paragraph Writing Level 1. My tech savvy middle schooler did not like the straight forward black and white format. I liked it because it helped the ADHD side by not providing distracting pictures. In the end she was “okay with it” She did learn from the solid lessons. This was not something that I would buy for my daughter not because it is bad more that it is not her style.
The student’s section comes as loose leaf worksheets so if you have a touchy feeling child like mine…have a three ring binder ready to put them away! The other issue I ran into was this program as for more prep time than I am use to. The program is not intuitive..meaning your teen cannot normally just read the directions and figure out what is expected. We found that most of the work needed the teacher’s workbook and directions. The teacher’s guide like most is written for a class room setting with an alter version presented for homeschooling. Frankly the slow time line was a bit much for us.
This would be great for a child that needs to work in a very step by step basis. Also teens that need less distractions would benefit from this program. This would not work so well for teens that are visual thinkers, who enjoy the pictures, color changes, etc to maintain interest.
Do you want to try it yourself and see what the product is? Here are some samples! SAMPLES
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HONESTY NOTE- I was given this product for my honest review.