Best Practices for Teaching Writing: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do / Edition 1

by Randi B. Sofman

Overview

Discover how to create a reading/writing oasis, blend narrative and descriptive writing, help students compose persuasive cover letters, use "Five Circles/Five Paragraphs" and "Punny Valentines," and more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412924610
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/28/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	5 - 17 Years

About the Author

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 - 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. Mc Dougal, Wyoming
27. Making a Move - James Darrell Harris, Texas
Index

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