PDF Writing Power 2 Teacher's guide with answer key, Karen Blanchard

Writing Power 2 Teacher's guide with answer key, Karen Blanchard

This "Writing Power 2 Teacher's Guide" provides instructors with an overview of the "Writing Power 2" textbook, an answer key for exercises, and teaching notes.

Here's a breakdown of the guide:

• Introduction: "Writing Power 2" is designed for high-beginning to low-intermediate English language learners, focusing on various writing skills for social, personal, academic, and professional contexts. The book has four parts that can be taught concurrently to reinforce skills and vocabulary. Each unit includes a "Warm Up," scaffolded exercises, models, examples, and a "Writing Task" with a "Check Your Writing" checklist.
• Structure of the Book:
  • Part 1: Language Use (6 units): Covers basic sentence structure, making sentences more interesting, compound and complex sentences, and different verb tenses (present, past, future). Units in this section are best taught sequentially.
  • Part 2: Social and Personal Writing (4 units): Explores different types of social and personal writing, distinguishing between formal and informal styles. Units include journal keeping, blogging, writing letters, and writing emails.
  • Part 3: Academic Writing (5 units): Introduces paragraph writing, the writing process (prewriting, organizing, drafting, revising, editing), and various rhetorical patterns like listing, time order, and comparison/contrast. Units in this section build on previous knowledge and are suggested to be done sequentially.
  • Part 4: Vocabulary Building (5 units): Focuses on strategies for identifying, selecting, and studying vocabulary, including vocabulary notebooks, flashcards, dictionary skills, word parts, and collocations. Unit 1 of this part is recommended to be introduced at the beginning of the course.
• Answer Keys: The guide includes answer keys for the exercises in each unit, emphasizing reviewing answers with students and encouraging logical arguments for their reasoning.
• Teaching Notes: Provides general guidelines for starting the course, creating a relaxed classroom environment, encouraging pair/group work and student writing, fostering vocabulary development, raising student awareness of learning purposes, and utilizing the "Writing Power Blog" for further practice.
• Detailed Unit Overviews: Each unit within the four parts is described, outlining its specific focus, learning objectives, and teaching suggestions. For example, "Unit 1: Simple Sentences" covers basic sentence elements, word order, subject/verb agreement, capitalization, and punctuation, while "Unit 2: Blogging" introduces social writing, blog comments, and the Pearson Writing Power Blog.

The document also includes specific answers for exercises from:

• Part 1: Language Use
  • Unit 1: Simple Sentences (Exercises 1-18)
  • Unit 2: Adding Information to Sentences (Warm Up, Exercises 1-17)
  • Unit 3: Compound and Complex Sentences (Exercises 1-13)
  • Unit 4: Verbs: Writing about the Present (Exercises 1-7)
  • Unit 5: Verbs: Writing about the Past (Exercises 1-8)
  • Unit 6: Verbs: Writing about the Future (Exercises 1-9)
• Part 2: Social and Personal Writing
  • Unit 1: Keeping a Journal (Exercises 1-10)
  • Unit 2: Blogging (Exercises 1-9)
  • Unit 3: Writing Letters (Exercises 1-8)
  • Unit 4: Writing Emails (Exercises 1-5)
• Part 3: Academic Writing
  • Unit 1: Writing a Paragraph (Warm Up, Exercises 1-12)