Writing Trails in American History or US history Based Writing lessons??

[Lori]

can someone tell me which is better or I should say what is the difference?

I am teaching a co op 4-5 grade we are doing 15 weeks of IEW , SWI Level A and then I want to use either Writing trails or US history based writing lessons

 

any input would be great

 

thanks

Lori

[PeterPan]

Have you seen the online lessons for SWI A? They're free on IEW's website. I don't recall how many weeks it expands the SWI to, but maybe it would be enough to fill your year?

[Wendi]

Huge difference between the two! Writing Trails contains brief narratives. For each narrative, there are vocabulary words and room to do a key-word outline. The student rewrites the narrative in his own words using his key-word outline. U.S.-History Based Writing Lessons is much more complete, containing lessons on dress-ups and a wide variety of writing assignments correlating to the units in TWSS (narratives, research reports, essays, poetry, critiques, etc.), as well as vocabulary.

 

Wendi