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Best Practices for Teaching Writing

What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do

By: Randi Stone

Add these innovative and proven strategies to your instructional toolbox!

Join Randi Stone as she visits award-winning teachers to observe their tried-and-tested best practices for teaching writing to elementary, middle, and high school learners in inclusive classrooms. Explore strategies for building student confidence and achievement in writing and language arts as Stone's teachers demonstrate their favorite instructional techniques. Linked with companion volumes for teaching mathematics and science, this resource for new and veteran teachers demonstrates how to:

Create a reading and writing oasis
Blend narrative and descriptive writing
Teach students to compose persuasive cover letters
Use "Five Circles/Five Paragraphs," "Punny Valentines," and much more

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12, Elementary, Secondary
ISBN: 9781412924610
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2007
Page Count: 120
Publication date: March 28, 2007

Price: $26.95

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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.

Key features

27 tried-and-tested best practices for teaching writing to elementary, middle school, and high school learners in inclusive classrooms
Award-winning classroom teachers model and explain their favorite instructional techniques
Featured strategies include how to use a reading and writing oasis; blend narrative and descriptive writing; create persuasive cover letters; use annotated bibliographies, autobiography, punny valentines, five circles/five paragraphs; and much more
Companion volumes feature strategies for teaching Mathematics and Science

Author(s)

Randi Stone

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.

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

Reviews

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

The Bookwatch, April 2008
Midwest Book Review

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