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Master provides structure for at-risk students. Master the Deck
includes a student writing book and teacher’s manual. Written by Dr.
Lois Stanciak, Master is geared for at-risk high school students and
adult education students – those with serious writing problems.
Written in a simple style, Master the Deck emphasizes sentence
combining skills and the writing process. Strategies are also provided
for helping students to analyze and revise their writing. Each
assignment is presented in a step-by-step sequence. Students practice
mastering the skill before they work with their own content.
Key Features:
- Modes of writing: expository (explaining and
comparing/contrasting), persuasive (supporting an opinion and
problem-solution), narration (personal experience and an observed
event), and business (career search report and memo writing).
- Simple yet structured sentence writing skills: combining with
and, but, or with glue words (subordinating conjunctions), ING words
(verbals), subtracting unnecessary words or ideas, rearranging sentence
beginnings to avoid monotony, and expanding with journalistic questions.
- Grading sheets are included for each assignment. These sheets appear in the teacher’s guide.
- Think sheets (graphic organizers) help students focus on specific content and organize their ideas.
- Special activities for identifying and correcting fragments and run-ons.
- Students practice writing controlling ideas (topic sentences) and categorizing from general to specific.
Scope and Sequence
Oral Language:
The sentence machine
Sentence sense
Flexible words
Words that change their meaning but not their use
Word stretches – idioms
Stretched sentence meanings or ambiguity
Reading aloud – all stages of the writing process
Sentence Combining – Sentence Fluency:
Combining with and
Combining with and, but and or
Combining with glue words – after-by, despite-through, unless-while
Combining with ING words
Combining with who, which and that
Fragments
Subtracting and revising
Expanding
Run-ons
The Writing Process:
How to – expository
Narrating (I)
Observing (3rd)
Persuading (I)
Comparing/contrasting
Problem-solution letter
Career research report
Memo writing
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