Teaching Writing in Middle and Secondary SchoolsTeaching Writing in Middle and Secondary Schools provides research-based and standards-based strategies-as well as classroom-tested activities-all in one book. Covering the core fundamentals of exemplary practices in the teaching of writing, this book demonstrates writing processes and the use of rubrics, with authentic samples taken directly from students' writing portfolios. Readers are also given valuable information on teaching grammar and spelling, curriculum planning, service learning, and community and parental involvement-all through the lens of teaching writing. |
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Instruction | 1 |
The Emerging Adolescent | 15 |
Bibliography | 21 |
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9th hour activities APARTHEID ask students assignments authentic assessment begin Blasingame brainstorming classroom conference Conventions create curriculum dents discussion doublespeak draft effective English evaluation example experience feel Gary Paulsen genres grade grammar help students high school I-Search ideas important instruction interview journal Karen Hesse Kill a Mockingbird language learning lesson letter literature Lois Duncan mini-lessons multi-genre paper narrative NWREL Organization Owen Hart parents peer person piece of writing poem poetry Portsmouth prewriting punctuation questions Rating reader reading reflection research paper response revision Robert Cormier rubric S.E. Hinton sample scores Sentence Fluency service-learning Six-Trait Model skills specific spelling story students write suggestions teachers teaching writing topic traits understand variety Williams Bay Word Choice Writing Goal writing portfolio writing process writing workshop young adult literature