Pot of GoldCreative Writing Course
Every student will enjoy learning to write!
POT OF GOLD
Was $99.00
Now $49.50 for Complete Course!
Includes Teachers Resource Manual
(152 pages)
and Student Activity Book
(140 pages)
in PDF format ready to print out
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WHAT IS POT OF GOLD?
Pot of Gold
teaches students the essential skills of formal composition as well as the techniques of research writing. As with Rainbow Class, students share their work and enjoy writing. The objectives of
Pot of Gold are:
- To help teachers take their students to the next level of writing skills so they are able to write concrete nonfiction pieces.
- To enable students to increase their writing abilities which will provide solid writing skills for their high school years.
- To give teachers a comprehensive, complete professional resource and course on creative and formal writing that provides ideas, materials, instructions, and fun methods to teach writing for life.
- To help students exercise the skills they acquired in Rainbow Class by showing them how to use additional ideas and research methods to create unique pieces of writing.
- To foster success in students by giving them the skills necessary to be good writers for life.
The purpose and value of
Pot of Gold, like Rainbow Class, is to motivate students to write. The thematic approach stimulates motivation as students review basic skills learned in Rainbow Class and learn new writing skills.
The
Pot of Gold theme is used throughout the course.
Pot of Gold
pen names are chosen in the first lesson, and a chunk of gold, silver, ruby or emerald is given to each writer upon completion of writing assignments. These chunks from the
Pot of Gold
are writing awards in the form of gold, silver, red or green star stickers and are placed on individual student book progress charts. The awards represent a holistic (overall quality) basis of scoring using a four-point rating scale which is explained fully in the Teacher's Resource Guide.
Pot of Gold reviews the elements of writing fiction by offering regular chances for students to exercise what they have learned about gathering their own ideas for stories before writing a story of their choice. These stories are always shared with the class. Students learn to work through the writing process independently and put into practice what they had learn in Rainbow Class.
Pot of Gold teaches students to write nonfiction pieces such as autobiography, biography, personal anecdote, and a special Christmas memory. Students review paragraph writing and learn how to combine paragraphs into a composition. Also introduced are the important skills of research writing where students learn how to write a report that is not sentence upon sentence copied (or paraphrased) from an encyclopedia!
Six new poetry forms are introduced. These short, structured poems allow students to gain confidence as writers because their structures assure easy success. These poems have a professional quality about them. Teachers are amazed at how cleverly students focus their ideas within the frameworks. Imagination is fostered in two lessons that enable students to create something entirely new out of something familiar to them. The nonpoetry lessons also follow a structure that insures individual student success.
Much sharing is exchanged throughout
Pot of Gold. These oral sharing sessions are built into the lessons. Sharing printed writing is accomplished through two issues of an optional class newspaper at the end of the year in which students choose their own best stories and poems.
Pot of Gold proceeds at a lively pace. Full lesson plans make the course easy to teach and students learn to become confident writers.
NOTE: Although entire classes should learn the basic techniques of Rainbow Class before proceeding to Pot of Gold, transfer students have not found it difficult to adapt to the second course without having had the first. For new students in the class, the many reviews, although familiar to those who have taken Rainbow Class, serve as introductory material to those who haven't learned basic writing skills. In Pot of Gold, the motto for every student is Write On!