Also, the new UPP catalogue has two more books intended for high schoolers which are focused on writing: "Writing - a Workbook for the Upper Grades" by Carol Goldfus & Pnina Rosenbluth and "Writing Ideas" by Ilana Kornblueth and Sheila Schoenberg. However, I do not have these books and I have no experience with them. Best regards, Hadas --- On Thu, 7/9/09, sara g <saragabai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: sara g <saragabai@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: [etni] Re: workbook for 5 point writing??? To: "ETNI list" <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 1:18 PM never send an email without proof-reading it!!! of course, that should have been 10/40 points in the writing. and also - in line 3 :"ARE all right", not "all all right". sorry... sara g On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:31 PM, sara g<saragabai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > in my weak 11th grade going up to 12th, there are some students who > all all right when they have to do an unseen (they got around 80 in > E), but their writing is VERY weak. i want to suggest a workbook for > them to use over the summer, to improve their writing and help them > get good grades in the F and G writing. (in my opinion, at the moment > they would get around 10/30 points. a little too low...) > > any ideas? > > we use "writing grammar" from ECB in the 12th grade, so i don't want > to give them that. > a long time ago there was a very good book called something like > "writing for the 5 point bagrut". it was, i think, light green (?) > and had chapters on "the sentence", "the paragraph", "the formal > letter". but i can't find it in any of the catalogs, and i suppose the > kids couldn't find it to buy. > > another option is "success in F and G" from ECB. i think it is > wonderful (they even have me recommending it in the catalog) but it is > not focused enough on writing. > > anybody have any ideas? > > thanks, > sara g > > -- > sara g in israel > sarag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > saragabai@xxxxxxxxx > Visit us at The E Zone > http://clickit3.ort.org.il/ganyavneenglish > -- sara g in israel sarag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx saragabai@xxxxxxxxx Visit us at The E Zone http://clickit3.ort.org.il/ganyavneenglish ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org or - http://www.etni.org.il ** ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** ----------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org or - http://www.etni.org.il ** ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------