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August 10, 2007
Dear Fellow Writing Teacher, Homeschool Mom or Parent,
Has Grammar become that dreaded subject
noone wants to tread on? Most students dislike grammar because
it has no relevance; it is a workbook with tons of exercises.
How BORING is that?
Pamela White
and IEW have produced a fantastic grammar guide you can use to teach
grammar rules in less than 15 minutes a day . . . from an interesting
perspective.
Ms. White has
re-written classic stories with embedded mistakes. It is your
student's mission to find & correct the mistakes. And believe
me, kids like correcting other people's mistakes a lot more than they
want to correct their own. So, set them on their mission of
detecting all the errors in the stories.
But, I teach
students at multi-age levels!
Can I still
use Fix-It for all those grade levels?
Don't worry! Fix-It provides 5
stories from grade 3 to 12. Each story is used for 32 week, 4
times a week. In other words, you get
5
years worth of grammar in one book...really!
Get your copy right now!
How does Fix-It work?
For each story, students rewrite a
sentence a day, 4 days/week, correcting as many of the embedded
grammatical errors as they can find. They also search for IEW
dress-ups and sentence openers. Beneath the incorrect sentences are
printed the corrections, and on the right column are listed the
explanations of grammar, including the definition for a bolded
vocabulary word.
In addition to the grammar rules in the
Appendix, to the right of each passage are the rules for those
sentences - so it's all spelled out - plus the vocabulary definition
(I figured teachers would be like me and appreciate having the
dictionary definition close at hand) and IEW style tools used.
As a BONUS,
you get a CD that prints the student versions. Save yourself
some time typing the stories yourself.
What do you do with the BONUS CD?
Print the stories for your students'
use or reformat if you want. In other words
Fix-It is
super-flexible
so you can use it for each of your kids' strengths or weaknesses.
Here's a great
idea you can use with your kids......
I love the CD-rom which has all the stories in a Word format. You can
put together a workbook for each of your kids. Include lines for
him to define his vocabulary words on one side of his workbook.
On the facing page he can write lines to correct the week's work.
Take it to a printer and for about $5.50 have a nice spiral bound
Grammar and Vocabulary book he can use all year.
Your next
BONUS is an Appendix with tons of extra helps so you
don't have to research lots of different books, guides or websites to
help your students write correctly. The appendices include:
- Grammar & Mechanic Rules
(Punctuation, Grammar)
- Excellence in Writing Style
Techniques (Dress-Ups, Sentence Openers, Advanced Style)
- Abbreviation List
- Proofreading Symbols
- Sample of Student Work
- Index of Grammar Explanations in
Fix-It
Before publishing these stories, the
author (Pamela White) tested them with students 2 years now (her own
homeschooled children and students in homeschool co-ops and
tutorials). After 2 years, she has very positive results.
The kids have fun with the
stories and are eager to find out what happens, which makes learning
the grammar more enjoyable. She deliberately challenges the students
with some grammar they probably won't know, so she can use the stories
as a means of teaching concepts as well as reinforcing what they've
already learned.
Reserve Your Copy of Fix-It
Which students work Best with
Fix-It?
I think it works well as a stand-alone
once students have learned parts of speech and basic sentence
structure (dependent and independent clauses, phrases), if the parent
or teacher takes the time to make sure students understand the rules,
which are listed beside the sentences.
Parents & teachers get
PLENTY of HELP with full explanations of the rules in the
BONUS Appendix.traditional
Generally, by the time students reach
high school, exercises in grammar don't translate well to their
writing. Grammar should come as much as possible from writing itself,
and IEW's style system is the best to helps with that. The Fix-Its
help you see what your students don't know. Fix-Its keep the
conversation about rules AND style techniques open. When you reiterate
through discussion, you help those rules sink in.
PLUS...the IEW grammar system also
aids your students in tackling standardized
tests like the SAT because the tests offer them incorrect
sentences which they must then fix.
This sounds alot like
Editor-in-Chief. What makes Fix-It better for my
kids?
It's only a little like
Editor-in-Chief, which I used with my children for a few months.
Editor-in-Chief can be frustrating to homeschool moms & teachers.
The embedded errors aren't the kinds of things your children needed to
be working on. It seems too hit or miss, with not enough focus
on the important issues.
Fix-It is different from Editor because
each of its 5 stories lasts a full year - so it's really
5 years of grammar in one
book. Written for different age groups from 3rd grade to
seniors, the stories allow students to rewrite 4 passages a week for
33 weeks.
The first three stories have built-in
advanced concepts, identified in the explanations by an exclamation
mark, which allows even the easiest story to work well with many ages
and abilities. All of the stories are intended to be challenging;
teachers & moms should remind students that they won't find all the
errors. Some of the errors will be review for the students. Some allow
you to teach on the spot (and keep reinforcing through repetition of
the same rule) new concepts.
Still Not Sure About Using
Fix-It?
Here's a sample of Fix-It...click
here!
Quit Making It Hard on your
students...
Let Your Students ENJOY Grammar & Writing by putting them on a mission
to find all of the mistakes in a few short sentences!
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Gi
ve
Your Students a REAL Reason for Learning Grammar.
When you use Fix-It,
your kids will see grammar-in-action. They will see the reason
you must learn about grammar, punctuation and vocabulary
SAVE
TIME and SPEND MORE TIME with
your FAMILY by using
these editing lessons that work! And your kids will learn
a new vocabulary word every day!
To summarize, Fix-It! Grammar and
Editing with the Classics contains 5 stories for 5 different age
groups, each one to be used over the course of a year: an abridged
version of Tom Sawyer, two humorous takeoffs on classic fairy tales,
an abridged version of Andersen's The Little Mermaid, and an abridged,
translated version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Grade levels
range from 3rd to 12th grade.
For Newbies & experienced
teachers.
This
is the PERFECT way to learn grammar, punctuation and vocabulary or
homeschoolers or classroom teachers so reserve your copy today for
just $30.
Yes, I want my own copy of Fix-It:
Grammar & Editing Made Easy with Classics
by: Pamela White
Reserve Your Copy Now
Blessings,
Kerry
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