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The Arts of Language Podcast, with Institute for Excellence in Writing’s founder Andrew Pudewa, is a weekly podcast to support teachers of writing composition. Our goal is to equip teachers and teaching parents with methods and materials which will aid them in training their students to become confident and competent communicators and thinkers.
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If you have been following along all year, we have made it to the final episode in this year’s series on the unit models. Join Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker as they discuss Unit 9: Formal Critique. In some ways, it is the culmination of all the units. Explore the value of learning the skills of analysis and writing about literature even if students are not planning to pursue a literary career.
Referenced Materials
Teaching Writing: Structure and Style®
Seminar Workbook
Magnum Opus Magazine Unit 9 Samples
Formal Critiques: Going beyond the Boring Book Report webinar
Episode 417: Using IEW through the Years
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.comPerhaps 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 week’s episode, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker are joined by Heidi Thomas and Joseph Tabenkin. Heidi is part of IEW's Product Development team. This past year she and her team have worked alongside Joseph, a product and software developer, to create IEW Gradebook, an online tool designed to help teachers grade more efficiently and effectively. Listen in for exciting details!
Referenced Materials
IEW Gradebook
Four Deadly Errors of Teaching Writing audio talk by Andrew Pudewa
“Simplify Grading with IEW Gradebook”
Teaching Writing: Structure and Style®
Theme-Based Writing Lessons
Structure and Style® for Students
Heidi Thomas
Joseph Tabenkin
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.comPerhaps 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
It’s time for another Live Ask Andrew Anything episode! Join Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker as they answer questions from listeners. They were joined by Ashley from Joyful Noise Learning, who asked how to answer a child who asks, “Why do I have to learn writing when I am not going to be a writer when I grow up?” Andrew also shares what he is reading to his grandchildren as well as a few other book recommendations.
Referenced Materials
Joyful Noise Learning
However Imperfectly by Andrew Pudewa
Penrod by Booth Tarkington
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education by Scott Newstok
Structure and Style for Students: Year 1 Level C
Dual Enrollment with Christian Halls International
University-Ready Writing
Introduction to Public Speaking
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.comPerhaps 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 episode, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker discuss the goodness of memory. Andrew shares his experiences with memorization and some of the reasons behind his passion for it. They introduce a new tool that will help you furnish the mind with poetry, songs, math facts, and more.
Referenced Materials
Nurturing Competent Communicators audio talk by Andrew Pudewa
Mastery Learning, Ability Development, and Individualized Education audio talk by Andrew Pudewa
Ten Thousand Times and then Begins Understanding audio talk by Andrew Pudewa
By Heart: The Goodness of Memory audio talk by Andrew Pudewa
Linguistic Development through Poetry Memorization
Teaching Writing: Structure and Style®
"The Fly" by Ogden Nash
"Relativity" by Arthur Henry Reginald Buller
How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education by Scott Newstok
Episode 398: Think like Shakespeare, Part 1
Memory Mentor
"The Children’s Hour" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.comPerhaps 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 episode Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker discuss the importance of learning the basic essay model even when many say it is outdated or formulaic. Learn how to take the basic essay model and expand it to a super-essay. Andrew even discusses the name of the longest essay model that uses one of his favorite words.
Referenced Materials
“De-Confusing Essays” article by Andrew Pudewa
Unit 8: Easy Essays and Beyond webinar
University-Ready Writing
University-Ready Writing free lessons
Teaching Writing: Structure and Style
Seminar Workbook
Magnum Opus Magazine Unit 8 samples
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.comPerhaps 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
Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker give a quick overview of how to start with IEW before diving into the question of how long students should use IEW courses. Students sometimes complain that they are doing the same thing over and over again. Learn why Andrew recommends the repetition of the Structure and Style syllabus over multiple years and whether students will ever graduate from the checklist.
Referenced Materials
How to Get Started with IEW
IEW Homeschool Magalog
IEW Pathway
Teaching Writing: Structure and Style
Structure and Style for Students
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
“Celebrate the Checklist”
Introduction to Public Speaking
Linguistic Development through Poetry Memorization
University-Ready Writing
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
Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker spend this episode sharing the legacy of Dr. James B. Webster. Hear the stories behind the unit models and a few personal anecdotes from Andrew’s long friendship with him. As Andrew said, “If you have benefitted from IEW in any way, you can be grateful for his brilliance, his vision that all children could learn to write well, and his decades-long friendship with me—without which IEW would not exist.”
Referenced Materials
Dr. James B. Webster
Anna Ingham
IEW’s story
Dr. Webster’s obituary
Blended Structure and Style in Composition by Dr. James B. Webster
Blended Sound-Sight Program of Learning by Anna Ingham
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 Homeschool 101 episode, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker discuss the importance of attending homeschooling conventions. They reminisce about the conventions they have attended and their favorite things to do when attending a convention. Andrew shares his heart on why home educators and grandparents should make the time and put forth the effort to attend a homeschool convention.
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Great Homeschool Convention-South Carolina (GHC-SC)
GHC-Missouri
GHC-Ohio
UTCH Convention 2024
IDEA Anchorage
IDEA Soldotna
IDEA Fairbanks
IDEA Juneau
FPEA Florida Homeschool Convention
NCFCA National Championship
41st Annual Virginia Homeschool Convention (HEAV)
CHEA's Annual Homeschool Convention
2024 Northern California Homeschool Convention
Transcript of Podcast Episode 415
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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
Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker talk to Lisa VanDamme, founder of the VanDamme Academy in Southern California. Lisa is passionate about making meaningful works of literature part of everyone’s life. They are joined by Joseph Tabenkin, who began following her reading program and developed an app for it: Read With Me. Listen to this episode as Andrew and Lisa compare favorite novels and share the joy of reading.
Referenced Materials
Lisa VanDamme
VanDamme Academy
Read With Me
Joseph Tabenkin
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo
IEW Book Recommendations
VanDamme Academy favorite books
Transcript of Podcast Episode 414
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
More than a podcast episode, this interview is a chance to listen to two friends share the story of how they met and the impact each has had on the other. Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker talk with Adam Andrews about the history of the Teaching the Classics course and CenterForLit as well as the importance of using Socratic questioning to listen to and learn from authors as they speak through their writing.
Referenced Materials
Teaching the Classics
CenterForLit
Ready Readers
Pelican Society
“Rikki Tikki Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
BiblioFiles
Teaching Writing: Structure and Style
Transcript of Podcast Episode 413
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
Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker discuss preparing to teach Unit 7: Inventive Writing. While most writing programs start with writing from a prompt, the Structure and Style method does not teach this until later in the course. Learn why this is and discover tips for helping even the youngest writers overcome the blank page.
Referenced Materials
Episode 398: Think like Shakespeare
Cultivating Language Arts – Preschool through High School audio talk by Andrew Pudewa
2023 Essay Contest Winners
Teaching Writing: Structure and Style (TWSS)
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 episode, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker talk with Sara Osborne, author of Reading for the Long Run: Leading Struggling Students into the Reading Life. Listen as they discuss her comparison of teaching reading to long distance running and the surprising rewards for both the teacher and the student when learning is hard.
Referenced Materials
Reading for the Long Run by Sara Osborne
Learning Differences? IEW can help!
R14: Learning Differences, Part 1 — Dyslexia
Episode 159: IEW and Dyslexia: A Conversation with Susan Barton
Episode 197: While Andrew's Away: Living with Dyslexia—An Interview with Chris Pudewa
Episode 231: The Dyslexic Advantage: A Conversation with Brock and Fernette Eide
Episode 363: IEW Helps Students with Dyslexia
Episode 378: IEW and Dysgraphia with Jennifer Mauser
Transcript of Podcast Episode 411
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.comPerhaps 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
After the fun we had with our 400th episode live question and answer, we invited some of our affiliates to join Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker for this live Q & A episode. This week Mandi Malz asked for Andrew’s advice for preparing a student for college. Alicia Brown asked which of Andrew’s articles in However Imperfectly is the most vital lesson in the book and what aspects make it particularly significant. Listen for these and other questions sent in by listeners.
Referenced Materials
Handmade Homeschooler
Episode 385: Hacking High School
Unbound
Christian Halls International
Write with Mrs. Brown
However Imperfectly by Andrew Pudewa
Four Deadly Errors of Teaching Writing audio talk by Andrew Pudewa
Premium Membership
IEW Schools Division
Portable Walls for Structure and Style Students
Virtual Teaching Writing: Structure and Style
Teaching Writing: Structure and Style
The Great TWSS Adventure
Structure and Style for Students
Structure and Style for Students: Year 1 Level B Premier Package
Theme-Based Writing Lessons
IEW Online Classes
Transcript of Podcast Episode 410
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.comPerhaps 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
January is National Mentoring Month. In this episode Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker discuss what makes a good mentor and some mentors that they have had. Listen in as they talk about memorable experiences with mentors. Dr. Webster, Andrew’s mentor, encouraged students to mentor one another. How does that work? Does a mentor have to be older than you? This month is a perfect time to consider these questions and perhaps begin a mentoring relationship yourself.
Referenced Materials
Dr. Shinichi Suzuki
Glenn Doman
Dr. James B. Webster
The Odyssey by Homer
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Transcript of Podcast Episode 409
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.comPerhaps 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
Listen to Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker as they discuss the Unit 6: Summarizing Multiple References teaching process. Remembering that this is a process, not a product, teachers need to model the research and writing steps with their students. The skills taught in Unit 6 may seem simple, but they form the foundation for research reports and essays.
Referenced Materials
Teaching Writing: Structure and Style
Structure and Style for Students
Adventures in Writing
Discoveries in Writing
Wonders of Science Writing Lessons
Episode 293: Process versus Product
Transcript of Podcast Episode 408
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.comPerhaps 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
What skills do students need to succeed in collegiate writing? Listen to Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker discuss this brand new video course that will prepare your high school and college students for college writing. Hear why Andrew would have called this “How to spy on your professor and figure out his or her writing style and imitate it so you can get a better grade on every paper you turn in”!
Referenced Materials
University-Ready Writing
Episode 354: Paper and Pen — What the Research Says
TRIAC
Episode 236: The Five Canons of Rhetoric
APA Style
MLA Style
Episode 347: A Citation Pathway
“Teaching Documentation with Confidence”
Transcript of Podcast Episode 407
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.comPerhaps 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
To kick off a new year, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker discuss IEW’s theme for 2024: Furnishing the Mind. Listen as Andrew describes how the idea of furnishing the mind with beautiful and good things relates specifically to cultivating the skills of language arts.
Referenced Materials
However Imperfectly by Andrew Pudewa
Episode 54: What Are We Really Doing Here?
Cultivating Language Arts – Preschool through High School audio talk by Andrew Pudewa
Recommendations for Cultivating the Language Arts
Profound Effects of Music on Life audio talk by Andrew Pudewa
Episode 128: Are You a Read-Aloud Family?
The Story about Ping by Majorie Flack
Linguistic Development through Poetry Memorization
“Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!” speech by Patrick Henry
Episode 398: Think like Shakespeare
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Transcript of Podcast Episode 406
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.comPerhaps 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
At this time of year, many people take time to reflect. It is through reflection that learning and growing occurs. In this Homeschool 101 episode, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker have an inspiring discussion that applies to novice and seasoned homeschoolers alike about the benefits of applying the practice of reflection to homeschooling. They offer several things for parents to consider when they reflect on the last few months of homeschooling.
Referenced Materials
Mastery Learning, Ability Learning, and Individualized Education audio talk by Andrew Pudewa
Structure and Style for Students
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.comPerhaps 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
Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker talk about the purpose and history of IEW’s Twelve Days of Christmas Giving. They also give a hint about the gifts IEW is sharing. Join us!
Referenced Materials
Twelve Days of Christmas Giving
Transcript of Podcast Episode 404
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.comPerhaps 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
Motivated by a desire to set teachers up for success, Denise Kelley, IEW Manager of Product Development, works tirelessly to ensure all IEW products and services are aligned with the company’s cornerstone product, Teaching Writing: Structure and Style. Join Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker as they discuss with Denise how her over two decades of experience at IEW have shaped her philosophy of product development.
Referenced Materials
Denise Kelley
Teaching Writing: Structure and Style
Structure and Style for Students (SSS)
Theme-Based Writing Lessons
Fix It! Grammar
Introduction to Public Speaking
University-Ready Writing
IEW Online Classes
How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education by Scott Newstok
Episode 398: Think Like Shakespeare, Part 1
Transcript of Podcast Episode 403
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.comPerhaps 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
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I've had some difficulties embracing the freedoms you mention. In my absence, my children have had several experiences of their friends parents peppering them with questions about what they are learning. My younger daughter, who tends to worry more, has come home and questioned if she's learning enough.
very encouraging! looking forward to part 2! also you mentioned The Dyslexic Advantage as being one of the best books you've read on the subject. would you mind listing the others? I'm hoping to build my library on the subject.
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