Contemporary Foundations: Writing

Synopsis

Contemporary'sFoundationsseries helps students improve their basic skills. Each book provides skill instruction, offers interesting passages to study, and furnishes opportunities for practice.Foundationsprovides meaningful contexts for learning, using language which is easy to understand. Foundations: Writingwill help students improve their writing skills, as well as their reading and thinking skills. Part I: Writing helps students practice the four stages of the writing process: Prewriting: planning and organizing Drafting: writing by following a plan Revising: evaluating and rewriting Editing: correcting grammar, mechanics, and usage Students will learn about five types of essays and practice writing each type: Descriptive Essay Personal Narrative How-To Essay Essay of Example Comparison-and-Contrast Essay Part II: Grammar focuses on language skills that writers need to understand. Grammar: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs Punctuation: periods, question marks, exclamation marks, commas, and semicolons Sentence Structure: incomplete sentences, run-on sentences, and comma splices The following special features will help students practice their writing skills. In Your Journal: ideas to think about and write about on your own Language Tip: explanations, pronunciations, study hints, and background information that will help students understand what they read Test Skills: a reminder that this skill is often tested on standardized tests With a Partner: reading, writing, and thinking activities to do with a classmate, family member, or friend Posttest: a test, evaluation chart, and answer key to guage skill mastery Revised Edition Features: New language tips Updated content, including revised passages, updated graphs and images More exercises About the Series: In Foundations: Reading, students will read practical information, nonfiction, poetry, and short stories. They will learn to find the main point and the details; identify fact, opinion, and bias; make inferences; read photographs and cartoons; and understand rhythm, rhyme, plot, and theme. Writing Workshops, Language Tips, and prereading questions are designed to improve reading, writing, and thinking skills. In Foundations: Writing, students will practice the four steps to writing an essay: prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing. They will read and write five kinds of essays: descriptive essays, personal narratives, how-to essays, essays of example, and comparison-and-contrast essays. A language-skills workbook provides grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure practice. In Your Journal, With a Partner, and Language Tipswill help students become better writers, and better readers and thinkers as well. In Foundations: Science, students will learn about the human body, plant biology, physics, chemistry, and Earth science. They will practice putting events in order; reading diagrams, charts, and graphs; using the scientific method; and making comparisons and contrasts. Try It yourself!activities will guide students through simple experiments so they will have a better understanding of what they have been reading about. Writing Workshops and Language Tips will help students use their reading and writing skills to think about science topics. In Foundations: Social Studies, students will learn about world history, U.S. history, civics and government, geography, and economics. They will summarize, make predictions, infer the main idea of cartoons, find information on maps, and read various kinds of graphs. Background Information, Language Tips, and Writing Workshops will let students use what they already know as they read and write about social studies topics. The revised edition includes a new World History chapter. In Foundations: Math, students will practice using whole numbers, money, decimals, fractions, ratios, and percents. Exercises will help students review the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts; round numbers; estimate answers; and solve word problems. Math Notes, On their Calculator, and Language Ti...

Copyright:

2009

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

198 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781404576346

Publisher:

Wright Group/McGraw-Hill

Date of Addition:

02/17/10

Copyrighted By:

Wright Group/McGraw-Hill

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Textbooks, Language Arts

Grade Levels:

Fourth grade, Fifth grade, Sixth grade

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