Exciting news! Amsco has just released a brand-new writing series! I am very proud to present to you The Writer’s Studio, by Lesli J. Favor, a three-book series to help your middle and high school students improve their writing skills. This new series was created using current research on writing strategies, including work by Nancy Atwell, Deborah Dean, and Traci Gardner. The instructional approach uses six traits of writing—ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions—as a framework for tackling any assignment. Each chapter walks students through the steps of the writing process and provides an assignment rubric based on the six-traits model.
The books are arranged by five genres: descriptive, expository, persuasive, literary, and response to literature writing. Within each genre, you will find a variety of activities and writing assignments. Students are also given numerous writing models, as well as opportunities to reflect on their own writing.
The Teacher’s Guides and Test Banks contain additional helpful resources. Tests are modeled on the ACT/SAT, so they review content in the student book while giving students a preview of these important exams. The Teacher’s Guide provides additional lesson and activity ideas for each unit and chapter in the student books.
Sounds like a great series, doesn't it? You can see for yourself by viewing virtual samples of each book. Just click the titles below.
The Writer's Studio: Level A
The Writer's Studio: Level B
The Writer's Studio: Level C
When you are looking at the virtual samples, you might notice that the series aligns very well with the writing strand of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Specific standards taught are:
Text Types and Purposes
1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
Production and Distribution of Writing
4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
Range of Writing
10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Note: It's hard to put a price on great instructional materials, but we did! Each book in The Writer's Studio series is an affordable $11.
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