Students only go through one level of SWI. After that, they use the techniques to apply what they’ve learned across the curriculum. Basically, you teach your student through the appropriate level of Student Writing Intensive (elementary, middle school, or high school). It teaches the parent how to teach writing and is designed to be used from elementary school through high school. Institute for Excellence in Writing is designed as something of a course for the instructor.
Then, the students write their own paragraph using the techniques learned while writing the practice paragraph. Parents guide students through brainstorming exercises and demonstrate how to write a paragraph from the ideas jotted down during brainstorming. With WriteShop, it is the parent who is providing the modeling. The idea behind this is that seeing good writing modeled will help students learn to write well when they move on to original work – similar to the way a student learns to play an instrument by using sheet music before he writes his own musical compositions. Students then use this key word outline to rewrite the paragraph in their own words. They pick out one or two words from each sentence to make notes. Students use a passage from someone else’s writing (a fable, for example) and use it to create a key word outline. IEW’s main focus, at least at the beginning, is modeling. I noticed three main differences between IEW and WriteShop.
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