Advanced Composition (Teacher Guide)

Advanced Composition concentrates on the more advanced skills of composition while incorporating work on common sentence-writing problems. The first section reviews the skills covered in Basic Composition. Each of the three remaining sections has a particular focus, enabling the teacher to pursue the direction in the course that is most appropriate for students’ needs. The second section focuses on critical thinking skills involved in learning to write and writing to learn. The third section offers instruction and practice in particular methods of paragraph development. The final section provides students with opportunities to write, revise, and thus apply the composition skills they have mastered.

The objectives of the course are the following:

• To review and master elements of proper usage and sentence structure such as parallel construction, effective use of active and passive voice, appropriate coordination and subordination, elimination of dangling and misplaced modifiers, and economy of language
• To analyze conceptual relationships and use inductive and deductive thinking
• To apply different types of thinking to various methods of composition development
• To use advanced methods of composition development: definition, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, analogy, and analysis
• To expand paragraphs into well-constructed multi-paragraph compositions
• To use techniques for effective revision of multi-paragraph compositions

A student edition that contains all of the handouts from the Teacher Resource Unit is also available—a great timesaver!

About the Series:
English & Language Arts curriculum units contain complete lesson plans with preliminary and follow-up work, teacher notes with background and rationale, ready-to-use worksheets, and suggested answers for student questions. These materials encourage the development of thinking , reading, speaking, research, and writing skills as well as critical thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.