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

 
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Episode 414: Furnishing the Mind with Reading - Read With Me

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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Episode 413: Furnishing the Mind with Lit with Adam Andrews

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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Episode 412: Preparing for Unit 7

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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Episode 411: Reading for the Long Run with Sara Osborne

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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Episode 410: Live Ask Andrew Anything

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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Episode 409: The Mentoring Model

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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Episode 408: Preparing for Unit 6

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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Episode 407: IEW’s New University-Ready Writing

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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Episode 406: Furnishing the Mind - IEW’s Vision for 2024

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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Episode 405: Midyear Switch

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
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Episode 404: Twelve Days of Christmas Giving

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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Episode 403: Behind the Scenes with Denise Kelley

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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Episode 402: Becoming Published with Brett Harris

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”
Audio talk
Article

“I Keep Six Honest Serving Men” by Rudyard Kipling
Transcript of Podcast Episode 401
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Episode 401: Asking Questions with Unit 5

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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Episode 400: Live Ask Andrew Anything

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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Episode 399: Think like Shakespeare, Part 2

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
Podcast Series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Episode 314: Imitation as the Foundation for Innovation, Creativity, and Development 
Transcript of Podcast Episode 398
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Episode 398: Think like Shakespeare, Part 1

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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Episode 397: Cultivating Gratitude

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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Episode 396: Laying Foundations with Unit 4

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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