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Summary

Teaching Writing in the Inclusive Classroom offers teachers in grades 6-12 everything they need to help all students develop basic writing skills, relate writing to real-life tasks, and explore writing as a creative and enjoyable practice. Filled with fifty engaging activities, this hands-on resource is an important and valuable tool that can supplement any teacher's approach to writing instruction. Teaching Writing in the Inclusive Classroom offers strategies based on the proven TIP Writing Process that is designed to individualize the writing process by focusing on the specific needs of each student within the classroom.

Author Biography

Roger Passman, Ed.D., is associate professor of secondary education, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois. He has been a high school and middle school teacher and is a professional mentor to aspiring teachers.

Katherine S. McKnight, Ph.D., is associate professor of secondary education and chair, Department of Teacher Education, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois. A former high school English teacher, she consults with the Chicago Public Schools on realigning special education courses with content area standards.

About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Why Write, Anyhow?
Understanding Voice, Theory, and Standards in Contemporary Classrooms
What Is the TIP Writing Process
Jane's Story: Learning to Participate Through an Ice Cream Social
Jamie's Story: Patience and Creativity Pay Off
Debbie's Story: Labels Create the "Can't"
A Word About Our Goals
It Ain't All Theory_But a Little Bit Helps
Product Approaches: Understanding Writing As a Sum of Its Parts
Process Approaches: Movement Toward Authenticity
The TIP Writing Process: A Balanced, Authentic Approach
Authenticity and Effective Practice
Flow and Optimal Experience
What We Believe About Writing
What Writing Is Not
What Writing Is
The TIP Weekly Schedule
A Few Words About Standards
The Principled Argument
The Assimilationist Stance
A Simple Fact: Too Many Standards
Acculturation Instead of Assimilation
A Place for Standards
Who Will Benefit From the TIP Approach?
Developing Voice and Authority
Lessons for Developing Voice and Authority
Lists of Ten
Basic Description
Rich Description
The Frame
Round Robin Theme Exchange
Sight, Smell, Taste-Touch, Sound (SST-TS)
Picture Writing
The Alien Encounter
The Archaeologist
The Blueberry
The Hall Walk
The Reporter
Transactional Writing
Visualizing
Writing Directions
The Friday Essay
Developing Mini Lessons
Using the Writing Workshop and Mini Lesson Approach
Developing Mini Lessons
Determine Content Need
Keep Them Short
Make Them Simple
Engage Students and Provide for Interaction
Provide Practice Time
Consider What's Next
Get Students Comfortable
Evaluate
Mini Lessons and Special Education Students
Discovering Organization
Developing Organizational Mini Lessons
Don't Spill the Topics
Sweet Organization
Paragraph Jigsaw
Persuading Paragraphs
Beginning-Middle-End
Fitting the Pieces Together
Situation-Problem-Solution
Thesis Statements and Organizing Ideas
Checking It All Out
Learning the Little Stuff: Sentence Structure, Punctuation, Contractions, Descriptive Vocabulary, and More
Developing Grammar Mini Lessons
Ask Yourself
Scaffold
Identify and Practice
Follow Up
Knowing Nouns and Venturing About Verbs
I'm Just Acting!Postcards from the Past
It's Happening_Right Now!Looking into the Future
Who? What? A World Without Pronouns
Dance, FANBOYS, Dance!Crushing Contractions
Capitalizing Capitalization
Quoting Quotables
Appropriate Apostrophes
Defragging Sentence Fragments
Comma Chameleon
Prefix Circles
Prefix Puzzle
Bucket o' Words
Vocabulary Pictures
It's in the Bag: Adding Descriptive Details
Overusing and Abusing "Very"
Idiomatic Scavenger Hunt
Finding Out About Research
Developing Research Skill Mini Lessons
Noting Notes
Building Focused Thesis Statements
Working Out a Working Outline
Developing I-Search Research Papers
Brainstorming I-Search Topics
Narrowing Down the I-Search Topic
Developing a Search Plan
Identifying Potential Resources
Gathering Information, Integrating Information, and Self-Evaluation
Appendix: NCTE/IRA Standards for the English Language Arts
References
Index
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