The Arts of Language Podcast
The Arts of Language Podcast, with Andrew Pudewa, founder of the Institute for Excellence in Writing, 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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An encomium is a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly. In this week’s episode, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker brainstorm ways to show appreciation to teachers and mothers. They also reminisce about teachers who influenced them. Has your student ever written an encomium to show appreciation for you or a teacher? Listen to this episode to hear Andrew’s and Julie’s topic ideas for an encomium in praise of a teacher or mother.
Referenced Materials
- IEW Appreciates Teachers!
- IEW Appreciates Teachers! blog post
- R23: Lessons in Cinema, Part 1
- Teaching Writing: Structure and Style® Seminar Workbook
- Unit 5 Student Sample
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Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker discuss the IEW® 100% satisfaction guarantee and how the return policy works. Learn why Andrew established this policy and why IEW does not ever discount materials.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 Writing0
- Transcript of Podcast Episode 417
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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
- Transcript of Podcast Episode 416
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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.
Referenced Materials
- 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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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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While many of us have reluctant writers, a few of us have passionate writers! These students find excitement in IEW’s creative Units 3, 5, and 7 and may have written a novel on the side with dreams of one day becoming published. This week Brett Harris, co-author of Do Hard Things, joins Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker. Listen to their discussion about how to make it possible for high school and college students to make those dreams of publication a reality.
Referenced Materials
- Reaching the Reluctant Writer audio talk by Andrew Pudewa
- Episode 246: A Novel Idea: Unit 3 on Steroids
- National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)
- Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris
- The Young Writer’s Workshop
- The Author Conservatory
- S.D. Smith’s The Green Writer
- Free download from The Young Writer’s Workshop
- Transcript of Podcast Episode 402
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In this week’s podcast, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker take a closer look at IEW’s Unit 5: Writing from Pictures. This unit teaches students to pull information from the brain by asking questions about a picture as a source for inspiration. Andrew points out that this same skill is applicable to looking at situations in the world and thinking about them. Join Andrew and Julie as they explain how Dr. Webster developed this unit and expound on the value of asking good questions in order to refine thinking.
Referenced Materials
- Magnum Opus Magazine
- Dr. James B. Webster
- Teaching Writing: Structure and Style
- Structure and Style for Students
- “Four Deadly Errors of Teaching Writing”
- “I Keep Six Honest Serving Men” by Rudyard Kipling
- Transcript of Podcast Episode 401
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On November 13, 2023, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker celebrated the 400th episode of the Arts of Language podcast by hosting a live event with nearly 400 guests listening. Andrew answered questions from the live audience on topics such as AI, college preparation, and the long-lasting legacy of IEW. He even told a joke. Listen to this extended podcast and hear about new products that IEW will release soon.
Referenced Materials
- Structure and Style for Students
- Portable Walls Grammar on the Go
- Portable Walls for Structure and Style Students
- Introduction to Public Speaking
- University-Ready Writing
- However Imperfectly
- Premium Membership
- Episode 364: Health and Wellness with Katie Wells
- Cultivating Language Arts — Preschool through High School audio talk by Andrew Pudewa
- Episode 382: Announcing IEW's Partnership with Hillsdale College
- Adventures in Writing
- Discoveries in Writing
- How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education by Scott Newstock
- Episode 398: Think Like Shakespeare, Part 1
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Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker continue their conversation with Dr. Scott Newstok, author of How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education. In this episode they discuss additional chapters. These fundamental habits of mind embody IEW’s mission “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.”
GO TO PART 1
Referenced Materials
- “Think like Shakespeare, Part 2”
- Scott Newstok
- How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education by Scott Newstok
- Linguistic Development through Poetry Memorization
- “Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare” by James Baldwin
- Transcript of Podcast Episode 399
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Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker welcome Dr. Scott Newstok, a professor of English and founding director of the Pearce Shakespeare Endowment at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. In this podcast they discuss his book How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education. The discussion centers around how the habits of the mind that shaped the writers, inventors, and thinkers of Shakespeare’s era can apply to education today.
GO TO PART 2
Referenced Materials
- “Think like Shakespeare, Part 1”
- Scott Newstok
- How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education by Scott Newstok
- The War Against Grammar by David Mulroy
- A Bookish Discussion
- Episode 314: Imitation as the Foundation for Innovation, Creativity, and Development
- Transcript of Podcast Episode 398
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To kick off National Gratitude Month, this podcast episode highlights Ron Clark’s book The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator’s Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child. Join Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker as they discuss how teaching students the concepts outlined in the book can help students express gratitude in a myriad of situations.
Referenced Materials
- “Cultivating Gratitude”
- The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child by Ron Clark
- The Ron Clark Story
- Humor in Teaching and Speaking audio talk by Andrew Pudewa
- Episode 312: Learning about Laughter
- "Give 'Em the Pickle by Bob Farrell – Customer Service Training"
- Dr. James B. Webster
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
- Transcript of Podcast Episode 397
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In this week’s episode, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker discuss Unit 4, the linchpin of the structural units. As students summarize longer references, they learn important skills that they will use in subsequent units: dividing subjects into topics, limiting facts, and following the topic-clincher rule. Andrew and Julie explore how these important skills help students choose interesting, important, or relevant facts and write cohesive, thoughtful paragraphs.
Referenced Materials
- “Laying Foundations with Unit 4”
- Structure and Style for Students
- Teaching Writing: Structure and Style
- Dr. James B. Webster
- Magnum Opus Magazine
- Transcript of Podcast Episode 396
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While our Homeschool 101 episodes are generally curated for people who are new to or are considering homeschooling, this episode offers wisdom for anyone who is impacting young lives, including teachers, grandparents, siblings, as well as parents. During this episode Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker explore what this wisdom entails. Andrew outlines two powerful measures to take to help students furnish their minds and cultivate their writing skills.
REFERENCED MATERIALS
- “The Two Most Important Things”
- Cultivating Language Arts – Preschool through High School
- Structure and Style for Students
- Teaching Writing: Structure and Style
- Fix It! Grammar
- "One Myth and Two Truths" by Andrew Pudewa
- However Imperfectly by Andrew Pudewa
- "Scintillate, Scintillate"
- Transcript of Podcast Episode 395
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If you have questions about IEW products or classes, contact customer service at 800.856.5815 or info@IEW.com