Each book presents parents with:

* Pages for recording the writing problems needing attention to improve writing skill and writing style

* Places to record spelling problems and correct them

* Ways to record, at the semester break and the year's end, the skills mastered

* Places to list those areas that should be reviewed during the next year's work

The parents book, Evaluating Writing is strongly recommended for all levels of Writing Strands. It can also be purchased separately if needed. Get more details

"Writing Strands is a great way to teach writing in the home school."
    -Cathy Duffy
     Christian Home Educators' Curriculum Manual

"The best writing program we've found is Writing Strands."
    -Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer
     The Well Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home

A complete list of the Table of Contents from Level 3 is shown below. You can also see a sample page from Level 3.

TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR LEVEL 3

• How To Make Writing Strands Work For You

• Writing Principles

• Assignments, Skills, Objectives

• Assignment #1  Following Directions (Basic)
  Learning that it is possible to follow carefully written directions.

• Assignment #2  Sentence And Paragraph Control (Basic)
  Learning to control sentences and control paragraphs.

• Assignment #3  Write And Rewrite A Sentence (Basic)
  Learning to construct complicated sentences and connect them to produce a story.

• Assignment #4  Description Of My Friend  (Description)
  Learning to organize a description and accept help.

• Assignment #5  Point Of View  (Creative)
  Learning to create characters' thoughts

• Assignment #6  What Did You Do Today  (Organization)
  Learning to organize experiences.

• Assignment #7  Furniture  (Organization)
  Learning to organzie objects in description so that their placement can be understood.

• Assignment #8  Out The Window  (Description)
  Learning to establish character position.

• Assignment #9  A Very Short Story  (Creative)
  Learning to construct a story.
  
• Assignment #10  My Room (Description)
  Learning to organize the description of places.

• Assignment #11  How People Move When They Talk (Description)
  Learning to create active characters having dialogue in narration.

• Assignment #12  Story Events  (Organization)
  Learning story structure as a series of events.

• Assignment #13  Tell A Story  (Creative)
  Learning to maintain point of view while organizing the telling of an event.

• Assignment #14  Liking The Character  (Creative)
  Learning to create characters readers will like.

• Problem Lists, Spelling Lists, Evaluation Of  Third Level Work, and semester reports also included.

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