Learn to Think and Write: A Paradigm for Teaching Grades 4-8, Advanced Levels [Paperback]

The EPILLAW Paradigm is a practical method for developing writing skills. It consists of an original nine-level taxonomy and sequential methodology of listening, speaking, writing and reading. In this method, the development of writing precedes the development of reading. The work consists of two books. In the introductory book, the author explicates the first six levels. The behaviors involved in EPILLAW train the student how to think consecutively and logically. The first three levels establish the concrete assimilation of knowledge; the middle three elevate the students' cognitive ability from the concrete to the abstract cognition of knowledge. Through charting, the students learn the EPILLAW essencing modality that enables them to think abstractly. Lastly, having achieved the skill of abstraction, the student can personalize ideas and, from there, develop writing proficiency. In the advanced book, the author explores the final three levels of the writing process.Dr. Una Sarnois an international educator with expertise in teaching elementary, secondary and college students. She received her Ph.D. at University College, Dublin -alma materof James Joyce - and was awarded the Doctoral Dissertation of Distinction Award for the year 2010 from the Association of Teacher Educators in the United States.

This text outlines an innovative and exciting approach to the teaching of writing, reading, and comprehension.It offers an excellent guide to a methodology that engages students' senses in a journey towards the comprehension of historical and scientific facts with spelling , vocabulary and grammar as guideposts along the way to developing writing skills. George Skau, professor of history (ret), Bergen Community College, NJ

The instruction of sixth grade involves the teaching of writing, reading, and math and developing best practices that will combine the three strands within one lesson. The level V Pr?cis of the EPILLAW Taxonomy is a perfect el+