Top Ten Reasons to Buy Our Textbooks


Stack the Deck Writing Program


Top Ten Reasons
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Our Textbooks

The Stack the Deck Writing Program
P.O. Box 5352
Chicago, IL 60680
Phone: 1-312-675-1000 and 1-800-253-5737
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Top Ten Reasons to Buy Our Textbooks

  1. Scoring rubrics for each prompt in the teacher manuals beginning with Check the Deck.

  2. Practical revision strategies.

  3. A non-threatening writer's vocabulary that can be used by the entire staff.

  4. Common-sense approach to the writing process.

  5. Tying sentence manipulatory exercises with revision strategies--functional .

  6. Major modes of writing: narration, persuasion, exposition, description, and literature-based.

  7. An articulated composition program, grades 1-12.

  8. Computer software programs for six of our textbooks.

  9. Checklist sheets for cooperative learning and peer evaluation.

  10. Learning off the wall writing posters.

  11. Our famous SOS sheet for revision--teachers love it--guaranteed!!!

The College Board wrote this about our SOS sheet:

"The SOS Sheet is a useful tool that allows students to contrast the writing of two authors, to study the style of a single author, and to improve the effectiveness of their own writing. As a revision technique for a student's own writing, completion of the SOS may signal various writing problems (repetitiveness in sentence opening, possible run-ons and fragments, passive voice, poor verb choice, lack of variety of sentence lengths, etc.) This technique allows students to revise not only grammatical and usage errors but also to strengthen the meaning and effectiveness of their writing."

  1. Humor in our sentence manipulatory exercises.

  2. Writing folders.

  3. Practical, staff development workshops.

  4. A toll free hotline number to answer your questions--1-800-253-5737.

Okay, there are more than 10 reasons . . . plus many more. We fibbed.


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