The Institute for Excellence in Writing Review: IEW Teaching Writing with Structure and Style

Do you feel underqualified to teach writing to your children? The Institute for Excellence in Writing has a resource called Teaching Writing: Structure and Style that will teach you to teach them!

Institute for Excellence in Writing Review

An Overview of IEW’s Teaching Writing: Structure and Style

IEW, or Institute for Excellence in Writing has a top of the line writing course called Teaching Writing: Structure and Style.  It is a video based writing program by Andrew Pudewa that teaches you how to teach writing to a child of every age. I’ve used IEW since 2004 and I’ve taught co-op classes and small groups in my home, giving me a lot of experience with this writing program. 

The first thing I will tell you about IEW is it is like NO other writing curriculum out there. It teaches you how to teach writing. It’s the equivalent to a college course in the correct way to teach writing. So many other curricula miss the mark by far and do not prepare the child to be able to write about any topic, in any way, whenever asked.

Whether your students are eager learners or reluctant writers, the award-winning Teaching Writing: Structure and Style video seminar will give you the tools you need to confidently teach your students to write well, think clearly, and express themselves eloquently and persuasively.

As parents of kids in grades K–12 and beyond you learn how to effectively teach them to:

• outline and summarize
• generate cohesive paragraphs
• create stories
• produce reports and critiques
• develop essays
• translate their thoughts and ideas into writing
• vary sentence structure
• use interesting vocabulary
• add literary devices

With the right supplements, you can have a 12 year writing program for all your children. The investment is more then purchasing writing workbooks each year, but the payoff is a competent writer.

The Nuts and Bolts of Teaching Writing: Structure and Style

• After watching the videos you’ll be able to teach writing in your sleep.
• It’s a step-by-step system that’s fairly easy with a little practice.
• You can use your existing history, science, art, current events etc. as resources to teach the different units once you get the hang of it.
• The IEW supplements are wonderful if you are pressed for time and unable to create your own lesson plans.
• You will ask yourself why no one has taught you this stuff before.

If you are not sure you can put the time into learning the techniques, then learn along with your child and get Teaching Writing: Structure and Style and the Structure and Style for Students.

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~ Originally posted May 2009, written by Brenda, classically eclectic mother of 5