"While we have all heard of 'writing across the curriculum areas,' Walling gives us an understanding of what this really means and provides examples that any teacher can modify to expand lessons to a more meaningful level, thus enhancing both writing and critical thinking skills in students." -Mark S. Strauss, Principal Virginia Schuman Young Montessori Magnet Elementary School, Ft. Lauderdale, FL "Walling demonstrates through student writing samples and classroom dialogues how all content teachers can use various writing modes to enrich students' content knowledge to the level of innovation and greater clarity." -Carol Conway-Gerhardt, President Catholic Schools Education Alliance of the Bay Area, Inc. Develop effective writing assignments to boost student achievement in the content areas! You don't have to be a writing instructor or English teacher to use writing in the classroom. Writing for Understanding focuses on using writing as an essential instructional tool to deepen and expand student understanding in the content areas. Written specifically for non-language arts teachers, this book debunks myths about using writing in the classroom and offers practical approaches for the upper elementary grades through high school. Writing activates higher-level thinking skills and engages students in concepts and content. Through sample writing prompts and classroom dialogues, Donovan R. Walling shows you how to create writing lessons that: Guide students in using narrative, descriptive, expository, persuasive, and argumentative writing Are adaptable to various subjects and disciplines Require students to process content using critical thinking skills This valuable resource helps teachers in any subject incorporate writing as a tool of effective instruction.
"It is all too easy to skip steps or assume that students already have certain skills. This book helps ensure that the proper steps are taken to allow EL students to be successful in various genres of writing." -James Becker, ELL Teacher/Administrator Toronto, ON, Canada "I felt as if I had taken an entire writing course just by reading this book!" -Rachel A. Mederios, ELL Teacher/Program Supervisor Jefferson Elementary School, Boise, ID Provide solid writing instruction to English learners! Exposing students to various genres of written text is one of the most powerful approaches to guiding development in writing. This resource helps teachers combine explicit and intentional strategies to facilitate writing development across genres for English learners in Grades 2-8. Based on the author's extensive experience as a writing instructor, this guide provides a unique approach that emphasizes using choice and students' personal experiences to engage English learners in writing. Chapters outline a variety of scaffolds that provide students with the targeted help they need, based on their current development and proficiency. These supports allow teachers to work with students as they analyze elements of written text, work alongside peers, and learn to write in different genres. Teachers will find: Resources for teaching narrative, expository, and persuasive writing and poetry Techniques for using the process writing model to lead students through pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing their work Reproducible graphic organizers for use with English learners Samples of student work Writing Instruction for English Learners is rich in proven, practical techniques to equip educators with the tools they need to guide English learners to write more skillfully.
Help is finally hereA'effortless, efficient but effective evaluations for your entire staff! A complementary volume to the bestselling Writing Meaningful Teacher EvaluationsA'Right Now!! and Writing Year-End Teacher Improvement PlansA'Right Now!!, this indispensable resource is an essential timesaver for any busy administrator charged with ......
Help is finally hereA'effortless, efficient but effective evaluations for your entire staff! A complementary volume to the bestselling Writing Meaningful Teacher EvaluationsA'Right Now!! and Writing Year-End Teacher Improvement PlansA'Right Now!!, this indispensable resource is an essential timesaver for any busy administrator charged with ......
More than ever, this third edition of the best-selling Writing Meaningful Evaluations-Right Now!! is vital tool for every busy administrator. In an era of increasing demands for quality performance-based evaluations, this book offers supervisors a diverse bank of areas to address during an evaluation plus sample phrases to assist in describing a teacher's performance. By supplying users with quick and efficient tools for writing fact-filled and comprehensive teacher evaluations, the book empowers educators to verbalize their goals and vision for their schools. Updated throughout, this essential reference guide provides sample evaluations, forms, performance proficiency statements, and a timesaving CD-ROM with forms that can be easily customized. The book greatly enhances administrators' capacity for monitoring, assessing, and documenting instructional performance by providing tools for developing evaluations that are individualized and that provide an accurate, meaningful record for both administrators and staff.
Formerly a SkyLight Publication. How can teachers help students recognize and tap into their inner motivation in order to achieve learning success? Writing Sparks provides writing activities and prompts that address three main aspects of motivation: self-direction, self-observation, and self-reflection. These activities can be effective with any age and help focus students on moving forward, identifying ideas and goals, and developing plans for reaching those goals.
A Practitioner's Guide to Creating a Boy-Friendly School
You've seen it in your school: boys struggling to master basic literacy skills, sitting outside the principal's office, collecting labels like "hyperactive," getting failing grades. Checked out, kicked out, or dropped out, they're benched when they should be scoring goals on the academic playing field. As a school leader, Kelley King has walked the talk: she successfully led her own staff to close the gender gap in reading and writing in just one year. In her step-by-step, research-based leadership plan for jump-starting boys' achievement, she shares: Critical insight into the brain-based differences between boys and girls First-hand leadership and classroom experiences Ready-to-use activities and resources for leading a successful gap-closing initiative With tips, anecdotes, and more, Writing the Playbook provides educators in all roles with a blueprint for creating schools where boys (and girls!) thrive.
Since 1998, this book has been the go-to resource for scholars seeking guidance at every phase of the process. This revised and updated fourth edition is the most comprehensive guide yet to researching, writing, and publishing a successful thesis or dissertation
Teacher's Resource of Writing Activities for Pre K-6
A teacher, journalist, and professional writer, the author has developed this collection of writing activities for students with a wide range of writing abilities. This workbook is divided into chapters that highlight the following traits: voice, idea and content, word choice, sentence fluency, organization, and conventions. They can be used as whole class excercises, or worked independantly by individual students. The activities are designed to fit into current classroom curriculum.
