Language Alternative: For Teaching Writing Skills

Martha Alexander's ambitious text aims to provide teachers with a step-by-step guide to teaching proper writing and comprehension skills. Supplemented with a wide range of well-known poems and prose passages, as well as local schoolchildren's essays, and excerpts from works in Trinidadian dialect, this volume presents another loop in the huge net of the English language. Models examined include recipes, radio talk shows, lifestyle discussions and a revealing interview with a leading judge, Madame Justice Bernard. Covering prose, plays, letter-writing, grammar and word use, this book makes use of exercises, multiple-choice sessions, diagrams and illustrations to create a straightforward 'how to' guide for young writers everywhere.