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Provides strategies for improving K-12 writing instruction. The contributors demonstrate proven ways to teach different aspects of writing, with chapters on planning, revision, sentence construction, handwriting, spelling, and motivation. The use of the Internet in instruction is addressed, and exemplary approaches to teaching English-language learners and students with special needs are discussed. The book also offers best-practice guidelines for...

Challenging the widely held cultural impression that boys are stubbornly resistant to schooling, this book features more than 100 detailed examples of classroom activities--along with real-world teaching techniques--that have proven effective with male students. Based on a wide-ranging, worldwide study of more than 1,500 boys and 1,000 teachers, Reichert and Hawley reveal what boys need in order to want to succeed in school and offer tips for forging...

"This book shows how adolescent students at all skill levels, including English learners, can be engaged in systematic writing practice, enabling them to communicate quickly, confidently, and thoughtfully on a variety of topics. The approach has been extensively tested by a master teacher, takes about one hour of instructional time per week, and can be used over an entire school year."--Jacket.

What does it mean to "teach" a poem, novel or play? Surely it is about lessons in comprehension and improvements in language facility, but what does literature teach us beyond literacy? Students can read substantive literature for what its authors intended: an insight into the human condition. Students, even those who appear indifferent, struggle with questions of right and wrong, good and evil, love and loss, self-interest and self-sacrifice. Using...

Provides the practical information instructors and writing program administrators need to use the portfolio method successfully in a writing course. Ideal companion to Portfolio Keeping, a guide for students, also by Nedra Reynolds and Rich Rice.

"With expanded coverage of teaching in the information age and teaching multilingual writers, as well as a new chapter on research in the writing center, the Sixth Edition of The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors addresses the needs of writing tutors as both teachers and scholars. This concise and practical introduction to tutoring in today's diverse, multimodal writing environment includes numerous exercises and activities to help tutors develop their...

"Turns of Thought is at once a classroom-based inquiry, a philosophical analysis, a practical demonstration, and a personal reflection on writing, reading, and teaching." "Turns of Thought will appeal to teachers of writing, graduate students of composition, and administrators of WAC programs, as well as anyone who is seriously interested in education and how and why students develop complex intellectual and ethical perspectives."--Jacket.

"Naming what we know examines the core principles of knowledge in the discipline of writing studies using the lens of "threshold concepts"--Concepts that are critical for epistemological participation in a discipline"--Provided by publisher. Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition examines the core principles of knowledge in the discipline of writing studies, using the lens of "threshold concepts"--Concepts that are critical for epistemological participation...

About the Authors is about the littlest authors -- those in kindergarten through second grade. Based on a profound understanding of the ways in which young children learn, it shows teachers how to launch a writing workshop by inviting children to do what they do naturally -- make stuff. So why not write books? Gifted educator and author of the best-selling What You Know by Heart (Heinemann, 2002), Katie Wood Ray has seen young authors do just that....