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9780131121874

Teaching Writing : Balancing Process and Product

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    9780131121874

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    0131121871

  • Edition: 4th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-01-01
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Summary

Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product continues to be the definitive book on how to teach writing in grades K-8, as it is the only text with comprehensive coverage of both process and product. NEW!Teacher's Notes: Supporting Struggling Writers are special features that help teachers adapt chapter content specifically for struggling students. NEW!Teacher's Notes: Assisting English Language Learners point out the best ways for teachers to support these student writers. Vignettes open every chapter to illustrate how real teachers have used the chapter content in their elementary classrooms. Minilessons in every chapter model skills and strategies instruction for use in the classroom. NEW!Instructional Previews help ground readers in chapter content, best addressing the question of what to teach and when. Step-by-Step features clearly illustrate instructional procedures. Rubrics throughout chapters help readers address and clarify assessment issues. NEW!A Descriptive Writing chapter addresses descriptive writing as a specific genre as well as an essential component of narrative writing, poetic writing, and other genres.

Author Biography

Gail E. Tompkins is a Professor at California State University, Fresno, in the Department of Literacy and Early Education.

Table of Contents

PART ONE Process and Product
1(184)
Teaching Children to Write
3(38)
Writing About Weather
4(5)
The Writing Process
9(19)
Stage 1: Prewriting
10(7)
Stage 2: Drafting
17(1)
Stage 3: Revising
18(4)
Stage 4: Editing
22(3)
Stage 5: Publishing
25(3)
Supporting Children As They Learn to Write
28(10)
Modeled Writing
29(2)
Shared Writing
31(1)
Interactive Writing
31(5)
Guided Writing
36(1)
Independent Writing
36(2)
Answering Teachers' Questions About . . . Teaching Children to Write
38(3)
Writing Workshop
41(34)
Reading and Writing About Families
42(5)
The Components of Writing Workshop
47(6)
Writing
49(1)
Sharing
50(1)
Minilessons
51(1)
Reading Aloud to Children
52(1)
Comparing Writing Workshop to Reading Workshop
52(1)
Implementing Writing Workshop
53(20)
Introducing the Writing Process
55(8)
Arranging the Classroom for Writing Workshop
63(1)
Adapting Writing Workshop for Emergent Writers
64(1)
Incorporating Writing Workshop into Units
65(5)
Monitoring Children's Progress
70(3)
Answering Teachers' Questions About . . . Writing Workshop
73(2)
Writing Strategies and Skills
75(32)
Working With Novice Writers
76(4)
Strategies and Skills
80(18)
Writing Strategies
82(5)
Writing Skills
87(11)
Teaching Strategies and Skills
98(6)
Minilessons
100(1)
Demonstrations and Other Teachable Moments
100(1)
Why Teach Strategies and Skills?
101(3)
Answering Teachers' Questions About . . . Writing Strategies and Skills
104(3)
Writers' Tools
107(42)
Writing Pen Pal Letters
108(5)
Spelling
113(21)
Invented Spelling
114(1)
Stages of Spelling Development
114(4)
Analyzing Children's Spelling Development
118(5)
Teaching Children to Spell Conventionally
123(11)
Handwriting
134(7)
The Goal of Handwriting
134(1)
Teaching Handwriting through Writing
134(4)
The Handwriting-Writing Connection
138(3)
Computers
141(5)
Word Processing and Other Computer Programs for Writers
141(4)
Using the Internet
145(1)
Answering Teachers' Questions About . . . Writers' Tools
146(3)
Assessing Students' Writing
149(36)
Using Portfolios
150(3)
Informal Monitoring of Student Writing
153(6)
Observing
154(1)
Conferencing
154(2)
Collecting Writing Samples
156(1)
Keeping Records
157(2)
Process Measures
159(9)
Writing Process Checklists
161(2)
Assessment Conferences
163(2)
Self-Assessment
165(3)
Product Measures
168(11)
Holistic Scoring
168(1)
Primary Trait Scoring
169(1)
Analytic Scoring
170(2)
Rubrics
172(5)
Responding to Student Writing
177(1)
Assigning Grades
178(1)
Reporting to Parents
179(3)
Explaining the Rationale
179(1)
Demonstrating the Program
180(1)
Displaying the Results
181(1)
Communicating Through Report Cards
181(1)
Answering Teachers' Questions About . . . Assessing Students' Writing
182(3)
PART TWO Writing Genres
185(268)
Journal Writing
187(38)
Responding in a Reading Log
189(3)
Types of Journals
192(19)
Personal Journals
194(1)
Dialogue Journals
195(4)
Reading Logs
199(2)
Learning Logs
201(5)
Double-Entry Journals
206(2)
Simulated Journals
208(3)
Young Children's Journals
211(1)
Teaching Students to Write in Journals
211(11)
Introducing Children to Journal Writing
213(1)
Instructional Procedures for Journal Writing
213(5)
Sustaining Journal Writing
218(3)
Assessing Children's Journals
221(1)
Answering Teachers' Questions About . . . Journal Writing
222(3)
Letter Writing
225(24)
Writing About Favorite Books
227(3)
Types of Letters
230(11)
Friendly Letters
230(9)
Business Letters
239(1)
Simulated Letters
240(1)
Teaching Students to Write Letters
241(6)
Introducing Letter Writing
241(1)
Writing Letters
242(1)
Assessing Students' Letters
242(5)
Answering Teachers' Questions About . . . Letter Writing
247(2)
Descriptive Writing
249(28)
Writing Vivid Descriptions
251(3)
Descriptive Techniques
254(6)
Specific Information
255(1)
Word Choice
255(2)
Sensory Images
257(1)
Comparisons
258(2)
Dialogue
260(1)
Teaching Students to Write Descriptively
260(14)
Teaching Minilessons
261(9)
Using the Writing Process
270(1)
In Theme Studies
270(2)
In Writing Workshop
272(1)
Assessing Students' Writing
272(2)
Answering Teachers' Questions About . . . Descriptive Writing
274(3)
Biographical Writing
277(26)
Writing a Class Biography
279(3)
Types of Biographical Writing
282(14)
Personal Narratives
282(3)
Autobiographies
285(4)
Biographies
289(7)
Teaching Children to Write Biographies
296(6)
Introducing Biography with Personal Narratives
297(1)
Writing Biographies and Autobiographies
297(1)
Assessing Students' Biographies
297(5)
Answering Teachers' Questions About . . . Biographical Writing
302(1)
Expository Writing
303(36)
Traveling the Oregon Trail
305(5)
Expository Text Structures
310(4)
Description
310(1)
Sequence
311(1)
Comparison
311(1)
Cause and Effect
311(1)
Problem and Solution
311(3)
How Children Apply the Patterns
314(1)
Types of Expository Writing
314(16)
``All About . . .'' Books
314(5)
Collaborative Reports
319(1)
Individual Reports
320(3)
Abc Books
323(1)
Riddles
323(1)
Posters, Diagrams, and Charts
323(2)
Cubes
325(1)
Multigenre Projects
325(5)
Teaching Children About Expository Writing
330(7)
Introducing the Expository Text Structures
330(1)
Writing Collaborative Reports
330(4)
Writing Individual Reports
334(1)
Assessing Children's Expository Writing
334(3)
Answering Teachers' Questions About . . . Expository Writing
337(2)
Narrative Writing
339(38)
Retelling and Writing Stories
342(6)
Elements of Story Structure
348(15)
Plot
348(5)
Setting
353(1)
Characters
354(5)
Theme
359(1)
Point of View
359(3)
Literary Devices
362(1)
Teaching Children to Write Stories
363(11)
Teaching an Element of Story Structure
364(1)
Exploration Activities
364(7)
Assessing Stories That Children Write
371(3)
Answering Teachers' Questions About . . . Narrative Writing
374(3)
Poetry Writing
377(44)
Reading and Writing Poetry
380(4)
Wordplay
384(11)
Learning the Meaning of Words
384(6)
Laughing with Language
390(1)
Creating Word Pictures
391(2)
Playing with Rhyme
393(2)
Poetic Forms
395(19)
Formula Poems
396(4)
Free-Form Poems
400(4)
Syllable and Word-Count Poems
404(2)
Rhymed Verse Poems
406(1)
Model Poems
407(2)
Poetic Devices
409(5)
Teaching Children to Write Poems
414(4)
Introducing Children to Poetry
414(2)
Teaching Children to Write Poems Using a Poetic Form
416(2)
Assessing Children's Poems
418(1)
Answering Teachers' Questions About . . . Poetry Writing
418(3)
Persuasive Writing
421(32)
Writing Mother's Day Cards
423(3)
Persuasion
426(6)
Three Ways to Persuade
427(1)
Propaganda
428(2)
Organization of an Argument
430(2)
Types of Persuasive Writing
432(6)
Persuasive Posters
432(2)
Persuasive Letters
434(2)
Persuasive Essays
436(2)
Advertisements and Commercials
438(1)
Teaching Children to Write Persuasively
438(12)
Introducing Persuasive Writing
439(2)
Writing Persuasive Letters and Essays
441(1)
Writing Advertisements
441(7)
Assessing Children's Persuasive Writing
448(2)
Answering Teachers' Questions About . . . Persuasive Writing
450(3)
References 453(14)
Author Index 467(4)
Subject Index 471

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Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Productcontinues to be the definitive book on how to teach writing, as it is the only text with comprehensive coverage of bothprocess and product.This is because I understand that teachers in kindergarten through eighth grade must balance the attention paid to both the process that children use as they write and the quality of their compositions. Overview of the Fourth Edition My new edition focuses on writing process, collaborative learning, reading and writing connections, writing genres, and writing across the curriculum. The text provides practical strategies for teaching and assessing writing--with step-by-step directions--presenting more than 100 student samples to illustrate the teaching strategies. This edition is divided into two parts. The first part, "Process and Product," focuses on the writing process that children use as they write and on ways to assess children's writing. Readers will learn about the stages in the writing process--involving prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing--and how to teach elementary students to use these stages as a recursive cycle when they write during writing workshop, literature focus units, and thematic units. Readers will also learn how to teach students to develop ideas, organize their writing, choose vocabulary, apply stylistic devices, and correct mechanical errors in order to create high-quality compositions. The second part, "Writing Genres," includes chapters on eight writing forms: journal writing, letter writing, descriptive writing, biograpical writing, expository writing, narrative writing, poetic writing, and persuasive writing. At the beginning of each chapter, I delineate an instructional sequence with goals and activities for teaching each genre in kindergarten through eighth grade. I emphasize five levels of composition instruction that vary according to how much scaffolding the teacher provides: modeled writing, shard writing, interactive writing, guided writing, and independent writing. Through this sequence, teachers vary the amount of support they provide student writers, and students increasingly assume more responsibility for their own writing. Special Features of the Fourth Edition These features increase the effectiveness of this text and provide support for teachers as they teach writing, encourage students to assume more responsibility for using the writing process, and assess the quality of students' finished products. NEW!Teacher's Notes: Supporting Struggling Writersare special features that help teachers adapt chapter content specifically for struggling students. NEW!Teacher's Notes: Assisting English Language Learnerspoint out the best ways for teachers to support these student writers. Vignettesopen every chapter to illustrate how real teachers have used the chapter content in their elementary classrooms. Minilessonsin every chapter model skills and strategies instruction for use in the classroom. NEW!Instructional Previewshelp ground readers in chapter content, best addressing the question of what to teach and when. Step-by-Stepfeatures clearly illustrate instructional procedures. Rubricsthroughout chapters help readers address and clarify assessment issues. NEW!A Descriptive Writing chapteraddresses descriptive writing as a specific genre as well as an essential component of narrative writing, poetic writing, and other genres.

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