Strategic Writing Mini-Lessons for All Students, Grades 4–8

Strategic Writing Mini-Lessons for All Students, Grades 4–8
Author: Janet C. Richards
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2012-11-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452284296

Power up writing instruction with short, differentiated lessons! The hard reality? By the time they reach middle school, many of our students still lack basic writing skills, and this may be one of their last opportunities to get up to speed before they reach high school. There′s no better resource for you to help them do so than Strategic Writing Mini-Lessons for All Students, Grades 4–8. Covering all four essential writing strategies—inventing, drafting, writing, and editing—these differentiated mini-lessons follow an easy-to-navigate, consistent structure, including: A schematic linking lessons to the grade-level goals of the Common Core Adaptations for struggling writers, English Language Learners, and even advanced writers with every lesson Support for different types of learners through use of color-coding techniques, charts, art, and other visual tools Specific guidance on developing your students′ confidence as writers and their ability to work independently Within no time, your students will write with a newfound competence and confidence, better equipped to meet the demands ahead of them. "This book is the most useful writing resource I have encountered in all my years of teaching. It is filled with practical strategies to produce writers with high-quality work product and high interest in the craft of writing." —Linda Sarver, Teacher Excelsior Springs, MO

Strategic Writing Mini-Lessons for All Students, Grades 4–8

Strategic Writing Mini-Lessons for All Students, Grades 4–8
Author: Janet C. Richards
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2013
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452235015

Short lessons with a big impact! Respond to your writers' needs with mini-lessons that will improve their craft and confidence. From the start, the I Can! chapter sets up writers to know what they can do, by learning to note and record their own strengths. Every chapter models strategies that foster students' self-regulated, independent writing, and includes adaptations that show how to adjust teaching for advanced writers, writers who struggle, English language learners, and extending the strategies across content areas. Each mini-lesson is laid out step by step for ease of use, including sections on: materials needed; modeling the lesson; student practice; and independent writing.

What's Next for This Beginning Writer?

What's Next for This Beginning Writer?
Author: Janine Reid
Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1551382741

This book starts with an inclusive definition of writing and suggests simple ways to introduce students to the purpose of writing. It discusses the key relationship between reading and writing, and the importance of oral language in building strong writers. Based on the work of real K-2 students, the book shows teachers how to interpret student work, identify what they know, and build naturally on the strengths their work displays. it argues for consistent teaching that includes a delicate balance between direct instruction and independent learning. Children will thrive as writers if they experience success. This book offers the tools teachers need to put that success in the hands of every young writer.

Strategic Writing

Strategic Writing
Author: Deborah Dean
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780814147559

For this revised edition, Dean worked with high school teachers to refine, reorganize, and update the material to better support classroom teachers dedicated to teaching not just the process of writing but also the strategies that help students learn to write effectively throughout their lives. Deborah Dean is back with a significantly reenvisioned and revised edition of her popular Strategic Writing. After working with high school teachers who implemented the approach detailed in the first edition, Dean has refined, reorganized, and updated the material to better support classroom teachers dedicated to teaching not just the process of writing but also the strategies of writing that help students develop the ability to write effectively throughout their lives. Most of the changes were prompted by the desire to help teachers better understand an overall strategic approach that can counter the testing climate that pervades many schools. This approach works within a workshop model and uses the writing process as an umbrella framework. In addition to providing engaging and practical classroom activities, this new edition offers (1) explicit strategy talk, with lesson plans that differentiate between strategy, activity, and mini-lesson to further demonstrate how all three function in a strategic approach; (2) a focus on digital tools and genres, which have proliferated in the last ten years; (3) a more accessible organization, with the conceptual material in early, short chapters and the teaching ideas, examples of student work, and lesson plans in appendixes; and (4) grouping by types of strategies for better alignment with process than with rhetoric. As always, Dean considers students' out-of-school as well as in-school writing tasks, preparing them for a world in which writing is a critical skill, whether for school, work, information, or self-expression.

Write Track

Write Track
Author: Nelson Thomson Learning
Publisher:
Total Pages: 401
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780176066086

Grammar Lessons and Strategies that Strengthen Students' Writing

Grammar Lessons and Strategies that Strengthen Students' Writing
Author: Laura Robb
Publisher: Scholastic
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439117586

Engaging, explicit lessons using mini-excerpts from books and students’ writing show you how to teach grammar strategically. Zero in on the common grammar glitches, and model for students how to use nouns, verbs, and adjectives effectively, catch mismatched pronoun references; make prose lively with clauses and phrases, use the active voice, and more. From learning the parts of speech to the skill of paragraphing, this book covers it, and gives you what you need to teach grammar in the context of reading and writing. For use with Grades 4-8.

Powerful Writing Strategies for All Students

Powerful Writing Strategies for All Students
Author: Karen R. Harris
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Highly-effective, field-tested lesson plans that will help transform struggling elementary and middle school students into skilled writers

The Responsive Writing Teacher, Grades K-5

The Responsive Writing Teacher, Grades K-5
Author: Melanie Meehan
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-02-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1071840894

"This book is an instructive call to action for all of us who need to be reminded of what hope enacted as classroom practice can look like." — Cornelius Minor Every classroom is shaped by the skills, languages, social and cultural identities, perspectives, and passions of the children within it. When you approach writing instruction with a deep understanding of children in your classroom, everything else—assessment, planning, differentiated instruction, mentor and shared texts—begins to fall into place. And you can teach writing with inclusion, equity, and agency at the forefront. Authors Melanie Meehan and Kelsey Sorum show you how to adapt curriculum to meet the needs of the whole child. Each chapter offers intentional steps for responsive instruction across four domains: academic, linguistic, cultural, and social-emotional. Features include: Inspiration, classroom examples, and scaffolded tips for creating individualized resources Customizable information-gathering and planning tools, classroom charts, and writing samples Space for making notes and working through ideas Links to online content, including printable templates Just as you adapt instruction to your students, this book adapts to you. The authors designed every guide, tool, and resource to be usable in its original form, or customized as you see fit. This indispensable resource will make responsive instruction actionable—and your students feel valued and heard as they recognize the possibility and power they have as writers.

Launching the Writing Workshop

Launching the Writing Workshop
Author: Lucy Calkins
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2023
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780325128504

"In this resource, you'll find four units of study for each grade level that fit tongue-in-groove alongside each other, each accounting for about five weeks of teaching. Each new unit in the sequence helps students consolidate, use, and build upon what they have already learned. Each of the four units offers a sequenced set of daily sessions that invite students along a path of writing development in one of three genres: narrative, information or explanation, and opinion or argument writing. This is unit 1 of the series is intended for Grade K"--