PDF Writing Power 1 Teacher's guide with answer key, Karen Blanchard

Writing Power 1 Teacher's guide with answer key, Karen Blanchard

This "Teacher's Guide with Answer Key" for "Writing Power 1" outlines a textbook designed for beginning to high-beginning English language students. The book aims to develop writing skills for social, personal, academic, and professional contexts.

The "Writing Power 1" textbook is divided into four parts:

• Language Use (three units): Focuses on basic sentence structure, making sentences more interesting, and writing compound sentences. It's recommended to teach these units sequentially.
• Social and Personal Writing (three units): Covers friendly letters, postcards, emails, blogs, and journals, highlighting the distinction between formal and informal writing.
• Academic Writing (four units): Introduces paragraph basics, topic sentences, supporting and concluding sentences, listing paragraphs, and writing instructions. It's recommended to teach these units sequentially.
• Vocabulary Building (five units): Features strategies for vocabulary acquisition, dictionary skills, word parts, collocations, and creative writing. Unit 1 (Vocabulary Building Strategies) is recommended at the beginning of the course.

The Teacher's Guide provides general guidelines for beginning the course, including having students read the "To the Student" introduction and complete a questionnaire to assess their writing experiences. It also emphasizes creating a relaxed classroom environment, encouraging pair/group work and student writing sharing, facilitating vocabulary development, and ensuring students understand the purpose of their practice. The guide also mentions the "Writing Power Blog" as an online resource for sharing work.

The Answer Keys section provides solutions for exercises in each unit and suggests reviewing answers with the class to ensure understanding. Teaching notes for each part and unit offer specific suggestions for maximizing the effectiveness of the course, such as encouraging journal/blog writing early on, providing additional writing samples, and connecting skills across different units (e.g., subject lines in emails to paragraph titles in academic writing).