Full 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
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
