PDF Writing Power 3 Teacher's guide with answer key, Sue Peterson, Dorothy Zemach

Writing Power 3 Teacher's guide with answer key, Sue Peterson, Dorothy Zemach

This is a teacher's guide for "Writing Power 3," a textbook designed to help intermediate to upper-intermediate English language learners improve their writing skills across various contexts.

The book is divided into four parts, which can be taught concurrently to allow for flexibility and reinforcement of skills:

• Writing Fluency (3 units): Focuses on developing the ability to write quickly and easily through practices like journals, blogs, and creative writing.
• Language Use (5 units): Covers vocabulary building, sentence variety, connecting ideas, verb tense and voice, and figurative language, with an emphasis on accuracy.
• Academic Writing (9 units): Introduces students to the conventions of academic writing, including essay structure, summary writing, working with source materials, prewriting techniques, thesis statements, introductions, conclusions, organizing and drafting, revising and proofreading, and timed essays.
• Social and Professional Writing (5 units): Addresses various types of writing encountered in social and professional settings, such as social networking, business letters, writing reviews, current events articles, and college application essays.

The guide emphasizes creating a relaxed classroom environment, encouraging pair and group work, promoting student writing and sharing, and developing vocabulary. It also includes answer keys for the exercises in each unit and offers teaching notes with general guidelines and specific suggestions for maximizing the textbook's effectiveness.