Writing and Rhetoric Book 1: Fable – Student Edition

Writing and Rhetoric Book 1: Fable – Student Edition

Writing and Rhetoric Book 1: Fable – Student Edition assumes children learn best by reading excellent literature and improving their own writing skills by imitating those writers.

This book, Fable, covers narrative writing. Exercises teach skill that students can employ across all subjects. Skills move from simple to complex, and the cumulative nature of each chapter reviews skills from earlier in the book. This helps students to build a solid foundation of writing skills.

What Students Learn in This Curriculum

In Fable, students will learn about the form of fables, discover culturally important examples, practice reading short texts, learn to copy accurately, strengthen their memory through dictation, gain opportunities to imitate sentences & fables, learn about the concepts of the main idea/character traits, and more.

Lessons start with the fable, and then students give a narration of the story. The “Talk About It” section provides students with questions that require personal application and critical thinking. Furthermore, the “Go Deeper” questions are multiple-choice questions that cover writing concepts and vocabulary in the piece. Finally, “Writing Time” exercises integrate copywork, dictation, “sentence play,” and rewriting exercises.

Writing needs to be taught just like any other subject, and letting students be “free” to write without a model is often letting them jump in the deep end without learning to swim first! This program equips children to build their writing skills on a firm foundation.

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