Students work together in preparing many of the assignments. Six units provide enough materials to serve as writing activities for an entire year. Each writing prompt includes a scoring rubric.
Students learn to focus by brainstorming on specially designed think sheets.
Our famous SOS sheet and checklist sheets help with revision. Flip's teacher's manual includes information about cooperative learning strategies and contains cooperative learning feedback and grading sheets. Tanis Knight, the Director of Curriculum in the Camas School District and former educator of the year in Washington, authored Flip the Deck . Oral language activities begin each unit to help bridge oral and written language. Students unscramble sentences, create an infinite set of sentences, write new beginnings, build a language warehouse, practice supporting ideas, communicate with different purposes, and practice interview techniques.