Writing for Real: Strategies for Engaging Adolescent Writers - Couverture souple

Burkhardt, Ross M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1571103589 ISBN 13 : 9781571103581

Editeur : Stenhouse Publishers, 2002

Synopsis

Getting adolescents to love writing is one of the most difficult tasks a teacher faces. Writing for Real offers a wealth of writing strategies that give pupils real reasons to write, grounded in the real world and in pupils interests. Teachers can regard this book as a toolbox to provide a blueprint for their own classrooms or it can be used as a guide for a complete school year of teaching writing. Readers will learn how to: lay the groundwork for a writing community on the first day of school motivate young people to write get classes to care about the conventions of English, including grammar and mechanics help pupils master specific forms from traditional genres and modes of writing to new forms of expression successfully organise writing groups deepen pupil response to writing use classroom publication to promote good writing connect writing to life through journals compose occasional writing to celebrate individuals and events Whether you work with struggling writers or those who already love to write, these strategies will engage your pupils in meaningful tasks that teach them the thrill and power of good, effective, purposeful writing

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ross Burkhardt earned his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and his Master of Science in Education degree from the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of specialty are middle-level education, teaching writing, poetry, and teaming.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stenhouse Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1571103589
• ISBN 13: 9781571103581
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible