Coaching Writing in Content Areas: Write-for-Insight Strategies, Grades 6-12
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Beschreibung
Written by one of America’s most respected writing professors, and drawing on the actual work of expert teachers, this resource is packed with practical, motivating strategies that teachers can use to make writing a tool for learning and for integrating writing into their content area instruction. KEY TOPICS: Covers writing in the digital world; working effectively with struggling readers and writers; expressive activities such as note taking, drawing, summarizing, and metaphor-building; strategies for coaching and judging writing as well as motivating student research; and examples in the content areas of health, science, mathematics, social studies, language arts, and other areas. MARKET: Pre-service and in-service teachers of students in grades six through 12 in a variety of disciplines, writing workshops.
Coaching Writing in Content Areas: Write-for-Insight Strategies, Grades 6—12, Second Edition, is packed with practical, motivating strategies for making writing a tool for learning, and for integrating it into content area instruction. Designed to help new and veteran teachers work smarter, not harder, the book is written by William Strong, one of America’s most respected writing instructors. The clear, personal voice of the book and its illustrative examples drawn from the work of expert teachers made the first edition a “thumbs-up” favorite with National Writing Project sites across the nation. This new edition expands these features, covers new strategies, and includes new samples of assignments, rubrics, and student writing throughout.
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William Strong