Learn Writing the Painless Way: by following great examples! Help your students get out of their own way and learn to write well as they imitate our series of stories, fables, myths, legends and tales. The Imitation in Writing method follows great minds like the American colonialist - Ben Franklin and the ancient Roman - Marcus Fabius Quintilian. Students will read and familiarize themselves with a new story each week. After studying the story, memorizing the key facts, and learning the new vocabulary, students will re-write the same story using their own words. Students are not "hung up" trying to decide what story they are telling, but they only have to think about how to re-tell the story they already know. Boys and girls alike will enjoy this writing method. Removing the "difficult" part of writing -- figuring out what to say -- allows the student to focus on the part they really need to learn -- how to say it. When you are not fighting with your students to come up with a story, when you're not constantly asking them, "And then what happened?", you can focus on what really matters in elementary writing skills. You are freed up to think about punctuation, penmanship, grammar, vocabulary and other important factors. Fight and win the writing battle with the Imitation in Writing method. Reach your students where they are and grab their interest with our five different story collections and two levels of poetry study: - Aesops Fables -- 40 short fables, 3rd Grade and up
- Fairy Tales -- 20 stories, Hans Christian Anderson, Grimm Bros., etc. 3rd Grade and up
- Medieval Legends -- 28 stories about Beowulf, King Arthur, Roland, the Nibelung and the rest. 4th Grade and up
- Greek Myths -- 27 myths, the stories start to get longer. 4th Grade and up
- Greek Heroes -- 27 stories about Perseus, Jason, Hercules and Theseus. 4th Grade and up.
- Poetry Primer -- 17 Lessons, 4th or 5th Grade and up (includes more than 30 poems in a mini-anthology)
- Poetry Primer Teacher's Edition also available
- Grammar of Poetry -- 27 Lessons, 5th or 6th Grade and up (includes 50 poems in an anthology)
- Grammar of Poetry Teacher's Edition also available.
Get the complete Imitation in Writing package for a 20% discount! Ben Franklin describes his own experiences learning to write in his Autobiography: About this time [his late youth] I met with an odd volume of the Spectator [a popular journal of the time]. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and, making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, try'd to compleat the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them. [Franklin then explains his method at greater length, inlcuding a method of versification for vocabulary improvement] By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. |
