Journal for Writing Across the Curriculum
Elementary Package - Grades 3 –5

Writing to Win Journal for Writing Across the Curriculum—Elementary Enhance the way your students learn with the nine critical-thinking journal strategies presented in the Writing to Win journal books. Each strategy promotes a different thought pattern, boosting students’ ability to explain fluently what they learn in every class. A completed teacher’s manual documents which standards teachers are teaching and provides them with a guide for presenting journal writing in subsequent years. The student book produces a paper trail of what students have learned and can also be used as a study guide for test taking.

The journal provides space for 132 journal prompts for a typical school year. The journal prompt thus becomes the responsibility of the teacher and allows the teacher options for students to write about. The scope & sequence follows that of major published textbooks and satisfies the national standards. One journal strategy is introduced and practiced before a second is introduced, then the strategies are varied to insure variety in writing experiences and suitability to specific topics. There are two journal entries on each page with space for an optional journal prompt. We encourage teachers to be creative in their choice of the topic prompt, but to use the same strategy if at all possible. There are also suggestions in the Teacher's Manual for additional topic prompts.

Teacher's Elementary Package contains:

• Teacher’s Manual
• Log of Entries for Teacher Expectations wall chart
• Guide for Writing in Your Journal wall chart
• Coaching DVD for Journal Writing.

Writing to Win Coaching DVD for Journal Writing—featuring the language Dr. Combs uses to assure that students think critically in each of their journal entries

Management Wall Charts - A Log of Entries for Teacher Expectations and A Guide for Writing in Your Journal

Journal for Writing Across the Curriculum, student books are sold separately.

Table of Contents

Student Book contains:

• Log of Entries for Student Self-Check
• Guide for Writing in Your Journal
• Inventory of Free Writing Topics
• The Journal Pages