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Best Practices for Teaching Writing: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do

Best Practices for Teaching Writing: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do


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Add these innovative and proven strategies to your instructional toolbox! Join Randi Stone as she visits the classrooms of award-winning teachers to observe their tried-and-tested best practices for teaching writing to diverse elementary, middle, and high school learners. Linked to companion volumes for teaching mathematics and science, and presenting insightful methods for building student comprehension and confidence, this book: Models techniques for improving achievement in literacy, vocabulary, student writing, and language arts Demonstrates turning a classroom into a reading and writing oasis, teaching students to blend descriptive and narrative writing, and helping learners create persuasive cover letters Illustrates techniques that utilize annotated bibliographies, "Punny Valentines," "Five Circles/Five Paragraphs," and much more Packed with creative ideas and lessons that produce results, this resource will be used again and again by new and veteran teachers to expand their instructional repertoires and enrich students′ writing experiences.

Table of Contents:
Preface About the Author About the Contributors 1. Anonymous Responses Enrich Learning - Burt Saxon, Connecticut 2. Historical Fiction Using Scenario Groups and Annotated Bibliographies - James W. D′Acosta, Connecticut 3. Five Circles, Five Paragraphs - Christine Chaney, Delaware 4. Reading and Writing Oasis Classroom - Linda K. Voelker, Kansas 5. Teaching . . . Profession and Passion - Dara Feldman, Maryland 6. Connecting Students to the World That Lies Ahead - Beverly R. Plein, New Jersey 7. Writing Connections - Nancy Rushing, South Carolina 8. Verbs to Vocation: Using Spanish Verb Tenses to Create an Authentic Cover Letter - Brenda Lynch, South Dakota 9. Author′s Purpose for Readers′ Choice - Micheline P. Plaskett, Virginia 10. Punny Valentines: Creativity and Teamwork - Elizabeth F. Day, New York 11. Being a Writer: A Tool for Improving Student Writing - Ganna Maymind, New Jersey 12. Published Poems and Stories Treasured Forever - Pam Roller, Indiana 13. What′s It Like to Be LD? - Peter W. Riffle, Pennsylvania 14. Think--Talk--Write - Rosemary Fryer, Washington 15. The "Art" of Merging Descriptive and Narrative Writing - Sharon Andrews, South Dakota 16. Writing the Wrongs: A Middle School Student Unravels the Knots of Her Life Through Writing - Susan Okeson, Alaska 17. Finding the Time to Write in Your Language Arts Curriculum - Stacy Gardner Dibble, Minnesota 18. We Write, You Read, We All Win for Literacy! - Carly Pumphrey, West Virginia 19. "Small Moment" Stories: A Way to Improve Student Writing - Ganna Maymind, New Jersey 20. Writing in the Palm of Your Hand - Carla Hurchalla, Maryland 21. Walking the Introduction - Eric Stemle, Wyoming 22. Writing Tools for the First-Grade Classroom - Nikki Salvatico, Pennsylvania 23. Revitalize Your Teaching Through Collaboration and Integration - Mary Merrill and Barbara Sabin, Maine 24. Lifesaving Technique - Vicki Goldsmith, Iowa 25. Teaching Writing With an Eclectic Approach Across the Curriculum - C. Joyce Taylor, Arkansas 26. Using a Work of Art as a Stimulus for Writing - Diana W. McDougal, Wyoming 27. Making a Move - James Darrell Harris, Texas Index

About the Author :
Randi Stone is the author of nine Corwin Press books: Best Practices for Teaching Reading: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Writing: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Mathematics: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, and Best Practices for Teaching Science: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do. She is a graduate of Clark University, Boston University, and Salem State College. She completed her doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Review :
"Ideas and lesson plans that produce clear results make for an excellent teachers′ handbook and education library reference."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781412924603
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Corwin Press Inc
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 120
  • Sub Title: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 141292460X
  • Publisher Date: 23 May 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 310 gr


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