The Arts of Language Podcast

In the third episode of the series on IEW Writing Tools, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker discuss IEW® Gradebook. A tool to simplify grading had been on Andrew’s wish list for years. Learn how IEW Gradebook fulfills that wish and acts as a grading assistant, offering guidance and support at every step of the grading process while it allows for differentiated instruction. Julie wraps up the episode with testimonials from teachers who have used IEW Gradebook and won’t go back!
 
Referenced Materials
IEW Gradebook
Try IEW 
IEW in Writing series
Podcast 551: Enhance Vocabulary with IEW Writing Toolbox
Podcast 552: Build Confidence with IEW Checklist Generator
Transcript of Podcast Episode 553
 
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Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).
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In this episode, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker highlight the IEW Checklist Generator™ that allows teachers and teaching parents to customize their students’ checklists and to provide clear and reasonable expectations for assignments. They also discuss the intangible benefits of using the checklist, such as helping students organize their work, develop confidence in writing, and learn responsibility to do what they check and check what they do.
 
Referenced Materials
Teaching Writing: Structure and Style®
Structure and Style® for Students
Episode 516: The Power of the Checklist
Premium Membership
“The IEW Checklist Generator: Making EZ+1 Easy!”
“The Power of the Checklist”
Transcript of Podcast Episode 552
 
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).
If you have questions about IEW products or classes, contact customer service at 800.856.5815 or info@IEW.com

“We want kids to have access to wordlists because. . . when . . . they see a word, ‘Oh, I think I know what that means!’ So it pops off the list, into their eyes, through their brain, out their fingers, and into their paper. It becomes a part of them. This moves the word from a passive vocabulary into an active vocabulary.” This philosophy has influenced many IEW resources. In this episode, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker talk about the printed student reference tools we have created and how those have led to the IEW Writing Toolbox app.
 
Referenced Materials
Portable Walls™ for Structure and Style® Students
Tools for Young Writers
Portable Walls™ Grammar on the Go
Portable Walls™ for the Public Speaker
Portable Walls™ for Academic Writing
A Word Write Now
IEW Writing Toolbox app
 
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).
If you have questions about IEW products or classes, contact customer service at 800.856.5815 or info@IEW.com

In this special Ask Andrew Anything episode, Andrew Pudewa answers questions posed by students live in the studio and virtually through videos recorded at conventions. The students tell jokes, ask Andrew about the history of IEW and the Structure and Style method, and share how IEW has helped them.
 
Referenced Materials
“Low-Tech Teaching with High-End Results” at IEW.com
“(PDF) Low-Tech Teaching with High-End Results” from Academia.edu
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Restoration of Christian Culture by John Senior
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Transcript of Podcast Episode 550
 
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).
If you have questions about IEW products or classes, contact customer service at 800.856.5815 or info@IEW.com

The Story Sequence Chart introduced in Unit 3 of the Structure and Style® methodology is a powerful tool for learning the structure of a story. Students use this tool for summarizing stories, writing variations and elaborations, and even composing original stories of their own. Listen as  Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker dig into the many ways to use Story Sequence Chart and learn how you might use it in your classroom or your own writing. Tell us a story!
 
Referenced Materials
“Using the Story Sequence Chart with Unit 3”
Teaching the Classics
Seminar Workbook
 
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).
If you have questions about IEW products or classes, contact customer service at 800.856.5815 or info@IEW.com