Teaching Writing : Balancing Process and Product

by Tompkins, Gail E.

• ISBN13: 9780131584167
• ISBN10: 0131584162
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Accessible and reader-friendly, this is the definitive book on teaching writing to children in grades K-8, the only title on the market to thoroughly address both theprocessand theproductof writing.Covers strategies for teaching prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing through writing workshops, literature focus units, and thematic units; techniques for helping children develop ideas, organize writing, choose vocabulary, apply stylistic devices, and correct mechanical errors; and, five levels of scaffolded composition instruction: modeled, shared, interactive, guided, and independent writing.For language arts enthusiasts in which their focus is on writing or teaching writing.

Table of Contents

Process and Product

Teaching Children to Write

Writing Workshop

Writing Strategies and Skills

Assessing Children's Writing

Writing Genres

Journal Writing

Letter Writing

Biographical Writing

Expository Writing

Narrative Writing

Descriptive Writing

Poetry Writing

Persuasive Writing

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