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Stronger Writing Skills for Teens

Modes, Methods, and Materials That Work

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Stronger Writing Skills for Teens offers middle and high school teachers strategies, techniques and materials for teaching adolescent writing in a variety of modes. A practical and useful resource for classroom teachers, the book focuses on quality writing instruction within the modes of writing as defined by Common Core State Standards. Examples of student work are included to illustrate effectively designed assignments and strategies for writing and revising. It includes methods for teaching vocabulary and academic language to help students improve word choice and use of language in their writing. Tools for assessing and grading student writing are also included, as well as suggestions and resources for effectively using writing rubrics and scoring guides. Narrative, expository/explanatory, argument, and research writing are discussed, with specific strategies, suggested materials, and ways to approach the modes. Teachers will also find suggestions for helping students learn to incorporate multimodal text into their writing and successfully write in digital contexts, as well as methods for helping students master timed and on-demand writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781475841657
• ISBN-10: 1475841655
• Artikelnr.: 52417219

Autorenporträt

Gregory Berry teaches English at South Salem High School, where he has also served as teacher leader, instructional coach, and department coordinator, and is also an adjunct English instructor at Chemeketa Community College. He received his BA in English, BS in Education, and MS is education from Eastern Oregon University and his doctorate in educational leadership, curriculum, and instruction from Portland State University in 2009. He is the author of Literacy for Learning: A Handbook of Content Area Strategies for Middle and High School Teachers, published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2014 and Cultivating Adolescent Literacy: Standards, Strategies and Performance Tasks for Reading and Writing, published in 2017.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: The Modes of Writing and
Common Core State Standards Chapter Two: Vocabulary and Academic Language
Chapter Three: Using Writing Rubrics and Scoring Guides to Teach and
Evaluate Writing What are Rubrics? Critique of Rubrics Benefits of Rubrics
Sources of Writing Rubrics Creating Your Own Rubrics Instructional Uses for
Rubrics Chapter Four: Expository/Explanatory Writing Chapter Five:
Narrative Writing Chapter Six: Argument Writing Strategies for Teaching
Argument A Lesson Plan for Argument Writing An Opposing Viewpoints Argument
Chapter Seven: Research Writing Viewpoints Essay The I-Search Paper Chapter
Eight: Timed and On-Demand Writing Chapter Nine: Using Multimodal Text and
Technology to Support Writing Multimodal Text Google Classroom Writing in
Online Spaces A Sample Multimodal Project: Personal Culture Exploration
Project Editing and Grading Programs About the Author