Best Practices for Teaching Writing
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Description
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.
Contents
Preface
Preface
About the Author
About the Author
About the Contributors
- 1. Anonymous Responses Enrich Learning
- 2. Historical Fiction Using Scenario Groups and Annotated Bibliographies
- 3. Five Circles, Five Paragraphs
- 4. Reading and Writing Oasis Classroom
- 5. Teaching . . . Profession and Passion
- 6. Connecting Students to the World That Lies Ahead
- 7. Writing Connections
- 8. Verbs to Vocation: Using Spanish Verb Tenses to Create an Authentic Cover Letter
- 9. Author's Purpose for Readers' Choice
- 10. Punny Valentines: Creativity and Teamwork
- 11. Being a Writer: A Tool for Improving Student Writing
- 12. Published Poems and Stories Treasured Forever
- 13. What's It Like to Be LD?
- 14. Think--Talk--Write
- 15. The "Art" of Merging Descriptive and Narrative Writing
- 16. Writing the Wrongs: A Middle School Student Unravels the Knots of Her Life Through Writing
- 17. Finding the Time to Write in Your Language Arts Curriculum
- 18. We Write, You Read, We All Win for Literacy!
- 19. "Small Moment" Stories: A Way to Improve Student Writing
- 20. Writing in the Palm of Your Hand
- 21. Walking the Introduction
- 22. Writing Tools for the First-Grade Classroom
- 23. Revitalize Your Teaching Through Collaboration and Integration
- 24. Lifesaving Technique
- 25. Teaching Writing With an Eclectic Approach Across the Curriculum
- 26. Using a Work of Art as a Stimulus for Writing
- 27. Making a Move
Index
Index
Description
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.
Contents
Preface
Preface
About the Author
About the Author
About the Contributors
- 1. Anonymous Responses Enrich Learning
- 2. Historical Fiction Using Scenario Groups and Annotated Bibliographies
- 3. Five Circles, Five Paragraphs
- 4. Reading and Writing Oasis Classroom
- 5. Teaching . . . Profession and Passion
- 6. Connecting Students to the World That Lies Ahead
- 7. Writing Connections
- 8. Verbs to Vocation: Using Spanish Verb Tenses to Create an Authentic Cover Letter
- 9. Author's Purpose for Readers' Choice
- 10. Punny Valentines: Creativity and Teamwork
- 11. Being a Writer: A Tool for Improving Student Writing
- 12. Published Poems and Stories Treasured Forever
- 13. What's It Like to Be LD?
- 14. Think--Talk--Write
- 15. The "Art" of Merging Descriptive and Narrative Writing
- 16. Writing the Wrongs: A Middle School Student Unravels the Knots of Her Life Through Writing
- 17. Finding the Time to Write in Your Language Arts Curriculum
- 18. We Write, You Read, We All Win for Literacy!
- 19. "Small Moment" Stories: A Way to Improve Student Writing
- 20. Writing in the Palm of Your Hand
- 21. Walking the Introduction
- 22. Writing Tools for the First-Grade Classroom
- 23. Revitalize Your Teaching Through Collaboration and Integration
- 24. Lifesaving Technique
- 25. Teaching Writing With an Eclectic Approach Across the Curriculum
- 26. Using a Work of Art as a Stimulus for Writing
- 27. Making a Move
Index
Index
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Best Practices for Teaching Writing
What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do
March 2007 | 120 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 01/02/2026 | 9781412924610 | $37.95 |
| Hardcover | 01/02/2026 | 9781412924603 | $79.95 |
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
- 2. Historical Fiction Using Scenario Groups and Annotated Bibliographies
- 3. Five Circles, Five Paragraphs
- 4. Reading and Writing Oasis Classroom
- 5. Teaching . . . Profession and Passion
- 6. Connecting Students to the World That Lies Ahead
- 7. Writing Connections
- 8. Verbs to Vocation: Using Spanish Verb Tenses to Create an Authentic Cover Letter
- 9. Author's Purpose for Readers' Choice
- 10. Punny Valentines: Creativity and Teamwork
- 11. Being a Writer: A Tool for Improving Student Writing
- 12. Published Poems and Stories Treasured Forever
- 13. What's It Like to Be LD?
- 14. Think--Talk--Write
- 15. The "Art" of Merging Descriptive and Narrative Writing
- 16. Writing the Wrongs: A Middle School Student Unravels the Knots of Her Life Through Writing
- 17. Finding the Time to Write in Your Language Arts Curriculum
- 18. We Write, You Read, We All Win for Literacy!
- 19. "Small Moment" Stories: A Way to Improve Student Writing
- 20. Writing in the Palm of Your Hand
- 21. Walking the Introduction
- 22. Writing Tools for the First-Grade Classroom
- 23. Revitalize Your Teaching Through Collaboration and Integration
- 24. Lifesaving Technique
- 25. Teaching Writing With an Eclectic Approach Across the Curriculum
- 26. Using a Work of Art as a Stimulus for Writing
- 27. Making a Move
- Index