Teacher''s Guide to Organizational Strategies for Thinking and Writing

A Guide to Organizational Strategies for Thinking and Writing offers teachers and students ten patterns for arranging ideas that will expand their repertoire of organizational skills. Each pattern is illustrated by passages that model the strategy, and each is accompanied by an assignment that invites application and practice.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Preliminaries
The Writing Process
What Students Must Know about Sentences
What Students Must Know about Paragraphs
What Students Must Know about Essays
How Modeling Works
The Use of Response Groups
How To Use the Rest of This Book
The Strategies
Chronological Order
Spatial Organization
Topical Organization
Comparison
Contrast
Comparison-Contrast
Question-Answer
Traditional Narrative
Point-Counterpoint
Extended Analogy
Teaching the Organizational Strategies (Table)
A Lesson in Modeling Rhythm and Rhyme in Poetry
References

About the author

Billie F. Birnie, PhD, has been teaching writing most of her life, first to students in elementary, middle, and senior high schools, and in recent years, to prospective and experienced teachers. Her published writing ranges from poetry and memoir to professional articles and books on teaching and learning.

Summary

A Guide to Organizational Strategies for Thinking and Writing offers teachers and students ten patterns for arranging ideas that will expand their repertoire of organizational skills. Each pattern is illustrated by passages that model the strategy, and each is accompanied by an assignment that invites application and practice.

Product details

• Authors: Billie F. Birnie, Birnie Billie F.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.12.2014
• EAN: 9781475814040
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-1404-0
• No. of pages: 60
• Series: Wrinkles in Teaching: A Series; Wrinkles in Teaching: A Series of Guidebooks for Teachers; Wrinkles in Teaching: A Series; Wrinkles in Teaching: A Series of Guidebooks for Teachers
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; EDUCATION / Administration / General, MATHEMATICS / Game Theory, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching skills & techniques, Decision theory: general, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies