Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product - Couverture souple

Tompkins, Gail E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0139554696 ISBN 13 : 9780139554698

Editeur : Pearson, 1999

Synopsis

This text is ideal for undergraduate or graduate courses in Elementary Language Arts where the focus is on writing or teaching writing.

Using a process approach to writing, this text focuses on teaching strategies that will help children in grades K-8 use the writing process to develop and improve their writing skills and their writing products. It examines all major types of writing through a practical presentation that includes a wealth of children's authentic writing samples which helps bring the writing process to life.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

 

Gail E. Tompkins

 

After teaching writing for more than 30 years at elementary through university levels, Gail E. Tompkins is now a full-time writer. “I’ve always liked to write,” Dr. Tompkins explains. “My Dad was an Army officer, stationed in post-war Germany when I was four.  I remember sitting beside my mother at the kitchen table while she wrote weekly letters to my grandparents. I drew pictures and wrote my own notes that she mailed along with her letters. In third grade, I received a journal and filled it with details about the everyday events in my life, like kids do. I did lots of writing in sixth grade–more than in high school. I wrote a 126-page tome about anthropology after reading a biography about Margaret Mead. My teacher urged me to improve my spelling and predicted that one day I’d be a writer. Now I realize that I already was one.”

 

Today Dr. Tompkins divides her time between the east and west coasts.  She spends much of the year in Fresno, California, but summers on Cape Cod. The photo on this page shows Dr. Tompkins at a beach in Wellfleet.  Take a clook at the cover of this  edition of Teaching Writing.  Again it features a pencil; this time the pencil’s morphed into a submarine that’s exploring the Atlantic Ocean off the Cape.

 

Dr. Tompkins is Professor Emerita at California State University, Fresno, where she received the prestigious Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Previously, she taught at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, where she received the Regents’ Award for Superior Teaching, and at Miami University in Ohio. Before that, she was an elementary teacher in Northern Virginia for eight years.

           

Dr. Tompkins has written numerous articles for Language Arts, The Reading Teacher, and other professional journals, and she’s the author of these books, also published by Pearson:

· Literacy for the 21st Century: A Balanced Approach, 5th ed. (2010)

· Literacy in the Early Grades: A Successful Start for PreK-4 Readers and Writers, 3rd ed. (2011)

· Literacy in the Middle Grades: Teaching Reading and Writing to Fourth Through Eighth Graders, 2nd ed. (2010)

· Language Arts Essentials (2006)

· Language Arts: Patterns of Practice, 7th ed. (2009)

· 50 Literacy Strategies, 3rd ed. (2009)    

In addition, Dr. Tompkins has worked with elementary-  through college-level writing teachers at two National Writing Project sites during the last three decades.  She directed the Oklahoma Writing Project when she taught at the University of Oklahoma, and more recently she led the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project (SJVWP) in California, where she encouraged teachers to write for publication.  Pearson has published these collections of classroom-tested teaching strategies and lessons written by SJVWP teachers: Teaching Vocabulary: 50 Creative Strategies, Grades 6-12, 2nd ed. (2008), edited by Gail E. Tompkins and Cathy L. Blanchfield; 50 Ways to Develop Strategic Writers (2005), also edited by Gail E. Tompkins and Cathy L. Blanchfield; and Sharing the Pen: Interactive Writing With Young Children (2004), edited by Gail E. Tompkins and Stephanie Collom.

             

 

Quatrième de couverture

Knowing that you must balance your focus in the classroom on the process that children use as they write and the quality of their compositions, Teaching Writing continues to provide a comprehensive look at both process and product.  This new edition provides you with practical strategies for teaching and assessing writing, with a focus on individual student needs and teacher accountability. Additional features will help you recognize the concerns of struggling writers, the needs of English learners, and the strategies you can use to improve student test taking.

 

Addressing Process and Product

• Vignettes beginning each chapter present you with an intimate look at real classroom teachers and their teaching of writing.
• Minilessons model five basic steps for teaching essential strategies and skills to young writers.
• Step by Step features offer detailed guidance for planning instruction and assessment, organizing learning, and managing classroom writing projects.   
• The free CD-ROM Writing Workshop gives you specific insight into classroom teaching in a workshop model, illustrating both the writing process and product.

 

Meeting Individual Student Needs

• How to Address Struggling Writers’ Problems This step by step analysis explains what issues cause writers to struggle, provides clear examples of the problem, and clarifies the steps to take to help writers overcome their obstacles.
• Scaffolding English Learners features pinpoint ways to support student writers whose first language is not English.

 

Planning for Accountability  

• Preparing for Writing Tests This new feature will help you prepare students for high-stakes testing by clearly defining each type of writing, providing prompts to generate a writing sample, and outlining possible pitfalls writers may face when writing in this specific genre.
• Rubrics throughout chapters help you address and clarify assessment issues. 
• Instructional Previews identify goals that help you plan for teaching by addressing the question of what to teach and when.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0139554696
• ISBN 13: 9780139554698
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible