Putting Everyday Life on the Page

Inspiring Students to Write, Grades 2-7
Marc J. Levitt
Putting Everyday Life on the Page
November 2008 | 128 pages | Corwin
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"A refreshing break from the rule-obsessed manuals that litter the educational marketplace. What better way to teach students to write than through their own experiences, their own senses, their own feelings of mystery, wonder, and excitement!"
—Thomas Armstrong, Author
The Multiple Intelligences of Reading and Writing

"With pre-writing and observing activities, targeted lessons, and simple strategies that create a desire to write, Levitt shows us that teaching students to write better is not only possible but fulfilling and fun."
—R. James Stahl, Founder
Merlyn's Pen Magazine and the New Library of Young Adult Writing

Develop your students' enthusiasm and ability to write about what is meaningful to them!

Elementary and middle school students often struggle with how to choose and develop topics in their writing. In a conversational and humorous style, Marc Levitt demonstrates how to help students write effectively by drawing from their own diverse and rich experiences.

This engaging book offers a wealth of easily implemented ideas and activities to encourage a culture of writing in your classroom and teach writing by acknowledging and utilizing what your students already know. Illustrating how teachers can use a multisensory approach and exercise students' observational intelligence, the author emphasizes specific facets of the writer's craft:

  • Beginnings
  • Sequential thinking
  • Observation and description
  • Characters
  • Settings and endings

This book offers novice and experienced teachers a myriad of ideas to help them teach writing skills that translate to the general academic setting and foster a love of writing.

Contents

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Introduction

  • 1. Beginnings
  • 2. Sequential Thinking
  • 3. Observations, Description, and Colorful Language
  • 4. Finding and Using Characters
  • 5. Finding and Using Place
  • 6. Motivating Your Students
  • 7. Grammatical Conventions: Sentences, Paragraphs, Commas, and Periods
  • 8. Encouraging a Culture of Writing in Your Classroom: Creating a Writer's Studio and Salon
  • 9. Endings

Index

Index

Additional materials

Description

"A refreshing break from the rule-obsessed manuals that litter the educational marketplace. What better way to teach students to write than through their own experiences, their own senses, their own feelings of mystery, wonder, and excitement!"
—Thomas Armstrong, Author
The Multiple Intelligences of Reading and Writing

"With pre-writing and observing activities, targeted lessons, and simple strategies that create a desire to write, Levitt shows us that teaching students to write better is not only possible but fulfilling and fun."
—R. James Stahl, Founder
Merlyn's Pen Magazine and the New Library of Young Adult Writing

Develop your students' enthusiasm and ability to write about what is meaningful to them!

Elementary and middle school students often struggle with how to choose and develop topics in their writing. In a conversational and humorous style, Marc Levitt demonstrates how to help students write effectively by drawing from their own diverse and rich experiences.

This engaging book offers a wealth of easily implemented ideas and activities to encourage a culture of writing in your classroom and teach writing by acknowledging and utilizing what your students already know. Illustrating how teachers can use a multisensory approach and exercise students' observational intelligence, the author emphasizes specific facets of the writer's craft:

  • Beginnings
  • Sequential thinking
  • Observation and description
  • Characters
  • Settings and endings

This book offers novice and experienced teachers a myriad of ideas to help them teach writing skills that translate to the general academic setting and foster a love of writing.

Contents

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Introduction

  • 1. Beginnings
  • 2. Sequential Thinking
  • 3. Observations, Description, and Colorful Language
  • 4. Finding and Using Characters
  • 5. Finding and Using Place
  • 6. Motivating Your Students
  • 7. Grammatical Conventions: Sentences, Paragraphs, Commas, and Periods
  • 8. Encouraging a Culture of Writing in Your Classroom: Creating a Writer's Studio and Salon
  • 9. Endings

Index

Index

Additional materials

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Putting Everyday Life on the Page

Inspiring Students to Write, Grades 2-7

Marc J. Levitt
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November 2008 | 128 pages | Corwin

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"A refreshing break from the rule-obsessed manuals that litter the educational marketplace. What better way to teach students to write than through their own experiences, their own senses, their own feelings of mystery, wonder, and excitement!"
—Thomas Armstrong, Author
The Multiple Intelligences of Reading and Writing

"With pre-writing and observing activities, targeted lessons, and simple strategies that create a desire to write, Levitt shows us that teaching students to write better is not only possible but fulfilling and fun."
—R. James Stahl, Founder
Merlyn's Pen Magazine and the New Library of Young Adult Writing

Develop your students' enthusiasm and ability to write about what is meaningful to them!

Elementary and middle school students often struggle with how to choose and develop topics in their writing. In a conversational and humorous style, Marc Levitt demonstrates how to help students write effectively by drawing from their own diverse and rich experiences.

This engaging book offers a wealth of easily implemented ideas and activities to encourage a culture of writing in your classroom and teach writing by acknowledging and utilizing what your students already know. Illustrating how teachers can use a multisensory approach and exercise students' observational intelligence, the author emphasizes specific facets of the writer's craft:

  • Beginnings
  • Sequential thinking
  • Observation and description
  • Characters
  • Settings and endings

This book offers novice and experienced teachers a myriad of ideas to help them teach writing skills that translate to the general academic setting and foster a love of writing.


Table Of Contents:

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Introduction
  • 1. Beginnings
  • 2. Sequential Thinking
  • 3. Observations, Description, and Colorful Language
  • 4. Finding and Using Characters
  • 5. Finding and Using Place
  • 6. Motivating Your Students
  • 7. Grammatical Conventions: Sentences, Paragraphs, Commas, and Periods
  • 8. Encouraging a Culture of Writing in Your Classroom: Creating a Writer's Studio and Salon
  • 9. Endings
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

"Lucky for all young writers, Levitt has turned his storytelling talents to talking to teachers in this practical and user-friendly book. Teachers across the curriculum will find Levitt's suggestions innovative and helpful as he describes how to transition students through the writing process. Always student-centered, Levitt invites us to keep children and their interests at the heart of writing."
Pat Cordeiro, Professor of Elementary Education, Rhode Island College
"A refreshing break from the rule-obsessed 'how to teach students to write' manuals that litter the educational marketplace. What better way to teach students to write than through their own experiences, their own senses, their own feelings of mystery, wonder, excitement, and dread! Let teachers everywhere use this book to make new Kafkas, Woolfs, and Ellisons, and to awaken in every student a love for making words that just sing off the page!"
Thomas Armstrong, Author of The Multiple Intelligences of Reading and Writing
"With pre-writing and observing activities, targeted lessons, and simple strategies that create a desire to write, Levitt shows us that teaching students to write better is not only possible but fulfilling and fun."
R. James Stahl, Founder, Merlyn's Pen Magazine and the New Library of Young Adult Writing
"Inventive and original, Marc Levitt's ideas actually put the fun back in writing—for teachers and for students."
Susan Ohanian, Senior Fellow, Vermont Society for the Study of Education
"This book has some of the strongest writing prompts and examples I have read in a long time!"
Brenda Lynch, Spanish Teacher, Madison High School, SD

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