Mark,

As an instructor, here is how I teach my students. It's easy and fun.

Get airborne and get nice and high but not too high. Come down the runway nice and level and start your turn using only the rudder but not all of it, say about half. Now if the plane starts to drop a wing then use opposite aileron to keep the wings level and also keeping the plane from gaining or losing altitude using power and elevator.

Keep doing this in both left and right patterns until you can do it with being too nervous. Now increase the amount of rudder and do it all again.

Once you can do level turns and are comfortable now it's time to start doing this while on approach to land but you will remain high enough in the approach so you actually do not land. The trick now will be to use the rudder to drop a wing, use power and elevator to maintain a shallow decent and the ailerons only enough to keep the plane from turning but not leveling the wings and pointing straight down the runway. This is called a slip and is not easy to do but makes for some great crosswind landing abilities and also a great way to lose lots of altitude quickly.

Do not try the slip until you get the other things mastered first. It sounds like allot but you'll get it pretty quickly