Meaningful Composition - A Powerful Writing Program
If you or your child are not keen on tackling the vast scope of Character Quality Language Arts but you fret that he is missing the important writing skills that CQLA addresses, then fret no longer.

Precept-Upon-Precept Approach to Writing
Now families who want to offer their children a rich, in-depth, precept-upon-precept approach to writing can use the new Meaningful Composition by Training For Triumph. With instructions from prewriting (outlining, finding source material, researching, and more) to rough draft writing to revising to final product writing, Meaningful Composition is a compilation of the "writing only" parts of Character Quality Language Arts.

Most Complete Writing Program Available
Using a "directed writing approach," Meaningful Composition tells your child how much to write, what to put in each paragraph, etc., in a step-by-step format. Each book contains two levels so that more advanced students in each level are expected to write more details and complete more revisions than the beginners. Meaningful Composition is not for every child, but for the child who loves to write and for the college–bound, you won't find any more complete program.

Easy Language Arts Program
Meaningful Composition may be used as a stand-alone One Semester writing curriculum or may be combined with a grammar-only program such as Easy Grammar to be used for an entire school year's Language Arts program.

Sample Pages:

Meaningful Composition 4A: Sentences, Paragraphs, & More
Table of Contents
Week 9: Beginning Paragraph Writing
Week 16: Multiple Paragraph Essays

Meaningful Composition 4B: Put Those Paragraphs Together
Table of Contents
Weeks 3 & 4: Multi-Paragraph Report
Week 6: Key Word Outline

Meaningful Composition 5A: Writing for Real:
Table of Contents
Week 3: Key Word Outline Essay From Given Material
Weeks 8 & 9: Original Informative Report

Meaningful Composition 6A: Long and Strong:
Table of Contents
Week 1: How to Create and Write From a Key Word Outline
Weeks 4 and 5: Original Informative Report

Meaningful Composition 8A: Bridging the Gap:
Table of Contents
Weeks 9 and 10: Informative Research Report
Week 11: Key Word Outline Essay

Meaningful Composition 9A: Research Reports:
Table of Contents
Week 3 and 4: Report II Agriculture Product(s)

Meaningful Composition 12A: The Research Paper:
Table of Contents
Weeks 1 and 3: The Research Paper

From The Author
We were surprised, over the past four years of distribution of CQLA and past six years of distribution of WBLA, to discover that there were moms out there who did not want all of the "extras" in our programs - copying, dictation, comprehension, vocabulary, character tied throughout the student's daily language arts study, grammar lessons linked to the student's essay writing, etc. These moms often had a grammar program they were happy with (usually Easy Grammar, which didn't surprise us since that was one of the programs we modeled the grammar portions of CQLA from) and just wanted composition. They often had already been using a Key Word Outline approach to essay writing but desired a writing curriculum with each step of the writing process laid out for them - from directed paragraph writing in original compositions to passages and outlining lines provided for essays from given materials. Thus, we have excerpted the "writing only" parts of CQLA/WBLA to give you Meaningful Composition.

Meaningful Composition (MC) is a consumable, user-friendly writing curriculum containing grammar/usage applications and revisions via a checklist called the Checklist Challenge. It uses what Training for Triumph calls a "directed writing approach" in which each paragraph and each sentence of each paragraph is "directed" for the student. It tells the student how much to write, what to put in each paragraph, how to find sources, etc., in a step-by-step format. MC is not a writing idea book but rather is a complete writing curriculum with instructions from pre-writing (outlining, early determinants, finding source material, researching, and more) to rough draft writing to revising to final product writing.

Each level contains two levels within it so that more advanced students in each level are expected to write more details and complete more revising items than beginners in each level. Each book also contains helpful appendixes for the teacher and student including lesson plans for co-ops and small groups, editing and revising marks chart, and Checklist Challenge helps. Note the + following MC 4, 6, an 8 (first semesters) indicate that those books, in addition to being good writing books for those levels, are also strong remediation books for reluctant writers a couple of years older than each level.

Meaningful Composition may be used as a stand-alone one semester writing curriculum or may be combined with a grammar-only program (such as Easy Grammar or Jensen's Grammar) to be used for an entire school year. MC teaches the Key Word Outline approach with all passages and details given, including how to outline longer sentences and what to do with unusual sentence structures (semicolons, quotations, etc.). It also teaches other outlining techniques, such as formal outlines, split paper outlines, 5 W outlines, and more. Finally, a step-by-step writing program that contains grammar application within it!