If you are looking for fresh ideas for teaching writing, you have come to the right place. Here at Kim's Korner for Teacher Talk, you will find numerous ideas, including ideas for the writing process, modes of writing, writing across the curriculum and the Six Trait Writing Model. When I began...
Wouldn't it be great if you could give students a simple prescription to cure their writing troubles? This book might be the next best thing. 25 quick lessons on choosing and focusing topics, writing titles and leads that entice readers, crafting great endings, using details, showing...
Effective Writing: * is focused on the topic and does not contain extraneous or loosely related information; * has an organizational pattern that enables the reader to follow the flow of ideas because it contains a beginning, middle, and end and uses transitional devices; * contains supporting ideas...
Establish an email dialogue between students from different schools who are reading the same book. When high school teacher Karen Murar and college instructor Elaine Ware, teacher-consultants with the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project, discovered students were scheduled to read the August Wilson...
Helping students to write well is one of the most daunting tasks facing teachers and homeschool parents alike. With WriteShop, you can teach fundamental composition and editing skills to junior high or high school students in an orderly, step-by-step fashion.
Reach Students With Different Writing Abilities—With Practical Lessons And Leveled Materials Teacher-educators Nancy Witherell and Mary McMackin have developed 17 complete writing lessons that include a skill focus, a model lesson and writing sample, and reproducible organizers. Designed to...
25 Mini-Lessons for Teaching Writing (Grades 3-6) [Paperback]
Product Description Quick Lessons That Help Students Become Effective Writers Ten-minute lessons on choosing and focusing topics, writing titles and leads that entice readers, crafting great endings and much more. Includes ideas for extending the lessons, editing and proofreading, mini-lessons and...
Teaching Writing Skills With Children's Literature
Twenty well-known children's books become models to teach primary and elementary students expository and narrative writing skills. Children learn about brain-storming, organization, elaboration, and writing conventions with readily available, quality children's literature. Best of all, the...
Teaching Writing Teachers: of High School English and First-Year Composition
What do writing teachers need to know? And what do they need to know how to do? Robert Tremmel and William Broz found that many of the answers to these questions revolve around a commonality of concerns and issues among high school teachers and teachers of the first-year college comp course. Yet the...
GENRE THEORY: Teaching, Writing, and Being (Paperback)
* Paperback: 119 pages * Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (February 20, 2008) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0814118410 * ISBN-13: 978-0814118412 * Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.9 x 0.3 inches * Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) * Average Customer Review:...
To Compose: Teaching Writing in High School and College
The essays in this volume study the writing process and show ways in which a classroom can be set up to treat students as writers. The central issues are: how writers find topics, how teachers respond to writing, how writing and literature can be combined, and how writing can be used (and learned)...
On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing,
From Publishers Weekly Although Schall's title might seem to promise a romp through the Elysian Fields with Epicurus and Nietzsche, nothing could be further from the truth. Recruiting philosophy and literary theory into an inspirational narrative, Father Schall (A Student's Guide to Liberal...
Jensen draws on his experiences as a teacher in both a university and a maximum security prison to argue for a new model of education. He paints a grim picture of a system that teaches students to mistrust their own experience and prepare for a 9–5 life of unrelenting monotony. He offers a new...
On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing,
Letters and essays are Schall's favorite reading, and the leisurely concentration characteristic of those forms distinguishes his own writings, which both entrance and infuriate. What is entrancing about them stems from the religiously informed perspective suggested by the book's title--that...
Teaching Writing Through Differentiated Instruction With Leveled Graphic Organiz: 50+ Reproducible, Leveled Organizers
Designed for teachers who want to teach writing effectively to students of different ability levels, this resource offers lessons, leveled organizers, and writing models to make planning and gathering materials a cinch. Seventeen units cover topics from structuring paragraphs to using elaboration to...
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Maxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants who operated a gambling house in the 1940s, when Maxine was born, and then a laundry where Kingston and her brothers and sisters toiled long hours. Kingston graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1962 from the University of California...
Image Grammar : Using Grammatical Structures to Teach Writing(Bk & Cdrom) (Paperback)
This is the most exciting resource for teaching writing and grammar that I've seen in years! . . . Certain to become a classic in the field.Constance Weaver, Author of Teaching Grammar in Context Image Grammar is an exciting resource that is both inspirational and immensely practical for all...
Refuting an Argument, Weighing an Argument, Building an Argument
Originally, the Young Writer's Workshop was the 2001 March lesson plan, a mini- workshop consisting of three writing projects: Weighing an Argument, Building an Argument, and Refuting an Argument, students examine issues and are asked to write about them in a clear, logical manner. This workshop...
How Richard Miller changed the way we think about singing.
* Fox, Richard. Teaching and Learning: Lessons from Psychology. FOX, Richard. Teaching and Learning: Lessons from Psychology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. 304pp. $39.95 (p). This book starts by offering practical guidance on and illustrative examples of the full range of issues in the...
Classical Composition is the result of teaching writing at Whitefield Academy in Overland Park, Kansas. We have experienced wonderful results with the use of the curriculum you will find in these pages and strongly encourage others to try this classical approach.
Cover Letters 2: Preparing to Write a Cover Letter How to Sell Yourself: Find out what prospective employers will notice. Read our latest issue of the Purdue OWL News. RSS Feed Purdue OWL podcasts on various writing topics are coming soon! Welcome to the Purdue OWL. We offer over 200 free resources...
Known and respected for its broad coverage and sharp focus on the needs of first-year law students, LEGAL METHOD AND WRITING has been fine tuned and updated for its Fifth Edition. This sophisticated yet accessible book: takes a comprehensive and practical approach to teaching writing and...
Marilyn Stokstad, teacher, art historian, and museum curator, has been a leader in her field for decades and has served as president of the College Art Association and the International Center of Medieval Art. In 2002, she was awarded the lifetime achievement award from the National Womens Caucus...
Written in Calkins' graceful and passionate style, The Art of Teaching Reading serves as an eloquent and desperately needed reminder of what matters most in teaching. Incredibly valuable resource for current and future teachers and educators. Offers a wealth of practical classroom examples...
The Complete Writer: Level 1 Workbook for Writing with Ease (The Complete Writer) [Paperback]
A workbook to accompany the acclaimed series on teaching writing, from the author of The Well-Trained Mind. In Writing with Ease, Susan Wise Bauer lays out an alternative plan for teaching writing, one that combines the best elements of old-fashioned writing instruction with innovative new...
Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing [Paperback]
Please join us in congratulating Penny Kittle for her 2009 NCTE Britton Award for Write Beside Them! This book is about teaching writing and the gritty particulars of teaching adolescents. But it is also the planning, the thinking, the writing, the journey: all I've been putting into my teaching...
Founded by Jules Dervaes (Dur-VAYS) in 2001, Path to Freedom is a grassroots, family operated, viable urban homesteading project established to promote a simpler and more fulfilling lifestyle and reduce one family's "footprint" on the earth's dwindling resources. Since the mid...
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