Deeper Writing

Quick Writes and Mentor Texts to Illuminate New Possibilities
Robin W. Holland - Columbus Area Writing Project, OH
Deeper Writing
November 2012 | 232 pages | Corwin
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Your best tool for building fluent writers

Move beyond routine assignments and make your classroom's writing time really count! No extra time or effort required—this smart and compelling collection is designed to enhance the writing instruction you're already providing. More than just prompts, these texts will foster authentic writing every day, as you challenge your students to build fluency and write for a variety of purposes—top priorities of the Common Core.

Whether you teach beginning writers or high school students, you can dive right in to

  • 45 quick writes in an easy-to-use framework with suggested grade levels
  • Carefully selected mentor texts that provide models and inspiration for student writing
  • Guidelines for crafting your own original quick writes, tailored to your students' needs

Deeper Writing gives you the tools and strategies you need to help your students' writing flourish, as they dig beneath the surface, remember and reflect and imagine, and learn to write with deeper meaning.


"Here are the resources you would collect if you had months to search for them. Robin shows how each can be used to help students find satisfying topics and then develop those by studying the craft of other writers. This book will inspire you to write—and lead your students to write—with heart, with passion, and with increasing skill."
—Penny Kittle, Author of Write Beside Them and Book Love

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Franki Sibberson

Foreword by Franki Sibberson

Preface

Preface

Introduction: Deeper Writing With Quick Writes and Mentor Texts

  • Chapter 1 Knowledge and Memory: Writing Ourselves
  • Chapter 2 Art, Lenses, and Visions: Writing the World We See
  • Chapter 3 Passion, Power, and Purpose: Writing to Change the World
  • Chapter 4 Containers, Craft, and Conventions: Writing in Different Genres
  • Chapter 5 The Creation of a Quick Write: Developing Your Own

References

References

Literature Cited

Literature Cited

Index

Index

Description

Your best tool for building fluent writers

Move beyond routine assignments and make your classroom's writing time really count! No extra time or effort required—this smart and compelling collection is designed to enhance the writing instruction you're already providing. More than just prompts, these texts will foster authentic writing every day, as you challenge your students to build fluency and write for a variety of purposes—top priorities of the Common Core.

Whether you teach beginning writers or high school students, you can dive right in to

  • 45 quick writes in an easy-to-use framework with suggested grade levels
  • Carefully selected mentor texts that provide models and inspiration for student writing
  • Guidelines for crafting your own original quick writes, tailored to your students' needs

Deeper Writing gives you the tools and strategies you need to help your students' writing flourish, as they dig beneath the surface, remember and reflect and imagine, and learn to write with deeper meaning.


"Here are the resources you would collect if you had months to search for them. Robin shows how each can be used to help students find satisfying topics and then develop those by studying the craft of other writers. This book will inspire you to write—and lead your students to write—with heart, with passion, and with increasing skill."
—Penny Kittle, Author of Write Beside Them and Book Love

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Franki Sibberson

Foreword by Franki Sibberson

Preface

Preface

Introduction: Deeper Writing With Quick Writes and Mentor Texts

  • Chapter 1 Knowledge and Memory: Writing Ourselves
  • Chapter 2 Art, Lenses, and Visions: Writing the World We See
  • Chapter 3 Passion, Power, and Purpose: Writing to Change the World
  • Chapter 4 Containers, Craft, and Conventions: Writing in Different Genres
  • Chapter 5 The Creation of a Quick Write: Developing Your Own

References

References

Literature Cited

Literature Cited

Index

Index

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Quick Writes and Mentor Texts to Illuminate New Possibilities

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November 2012 | 232 pages | Corwin

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Your best tool for building fluent writers

Move beyond routine assignments and make your classroom's writing time really count! No extra time or effort required—this smart and compelling collection is designed to enhance the writing instruction you're already providing. More than just prompts, these texts will foster authentic writing every day, as you challenge your students to build fluency and write for a variety of purposes—top priorities of the Common Core.

Whether you teach beginning writers or high school students, you can dive right in to

  • 45 quick writes in an easy-to-use framework with suggested grade levels
  • Carefully selected mentor texts that provide models and inspiration for student writing
  • Guidelines for crafting your own original quick writes, tailored to your students' needs

Deeper Writing gives you the tools and strategies you need to help your students' writing flourish, as they dig beneath the surface, remember and reflect and imagine, and learn to write with deeper meaning.


"Here are the resources you would collect if you had months to search for them. Robin shows how each can be used to help students find satisfying topics and then develop those by studying the craft of other writers. This book will inspire you to write—and lead your students to write—with heart, with passion, and with increasing skill."
—Penny Kittle, Author of Write Beside Them and Book Love


Table Of Contents:

  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword by Franki Sibberson
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Deeper Writing With Quick Writes and Mentor Texts
  • Chapter 1 Knowledge and Memory: Writing Ourselves
  • Chapter 2 Art, Lenses, and Visions: Writing the World We See
  • Chapter 3 Passion, Power, and Purpose: Writing to Change the World
  • Chapter 4 Containers, Craft, and Conventions: Writing in Different Genres
  • Chapter 5 The Creation of a Quick Write: Developing Your Own
  • References
  • Literature Cited
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

"This text allows teachers and students to experience the pleasures and joys of finding meaning in... writing. Such "digging deeper" can be rare in a writing-on-demand culture. The prompts are versatile enough to allow for use in a wide variety of classrooms, from primary-grades to graduate school."
Peggy Semingson, Assistant Professor of Literacy Studies, College of Education, Curriculum & Instruction, University of Texas at Arlington
"Here are the resources you would collect if you had months to search for them. Robin shows how each can be used to help students find satisfying topics and then develop those by studying the craft of other writers. This book will inspire you to write—and lead your students to write—with heart, with passion, and with increasing skill."
Penny Kittle, Author of Write Beside Them and Book Love, Conway, NH

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