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This book demonstrates effective teaching practices that facilitate all students' written language development and improve attitudes toward writing in grades 6 - 12. All teachers need to be involved in raising the literacy bar. This book provides practical and classroom-tested activities and strategies that promote success for all learners.
List of contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Reading to Improve Student Writing
Activity 1.1: Take Time to Notice-Looking and Learning
Activity 1.2: Take Time to Notice-An Artist's Choices
Activity 1.3: Take Time to Notice-Comparison of Two Works of Art
Activity 1.4: Noticing the Writer's Choices-Reading Poems
Activity 1.5: Noticing the Writer's Choices-Reading Fiction
Activity 1.6: Noticing the Writer's Choices-Reading Nonfiction
Activity 1.7: Determining Connotation vs. Denotation-Taking the Temperature of Words
Activity 1.8: Identifying Three Kinds of Questions
Activity 1.9: Using the I-Search Paper
Chapter 2: Reading and Writing in the Content Areas
Activity 2.1: Using the SOAPSTone Strategy
Activity 2.2: Role-playing
Activity 2.3: Using Primary Documents
Activity 2.4: Using Letters, Diaries, and Other Primary Sources
Activity 2.5: Applying the Concept of Essential Questions in Content Areas
Activity 2.6: Implementing Socratic Seminars
Activity 2.7: Reviewing the Textbook
Activity 2.8: Journaling
Activity 2.9: Authentic Content Area Writing
Chapter 3: Developing Focus and Logic through the Essay
Activity 3.1: How Meaning is Constructed in E.B. White's "Once More to the Lake"
Activity 3.2: Form Supports Meaning
Activity 3.3: Conversion of a Narrative to an Essay
Activity 3.4: Finding Significance in Literature
Activity 3.5: Brainstorming in Response to Essential Questions
Chapter 4: Reading for Persuasive Writing: The Argument
Activity 4.1: Checklist for Close-Reading
Activity 4.2: The Face-Off
Activity 4.3: The Scaffolded Oral Presentation
Activity 4.4: A Panel Discussion
Activity 4.5: Staging the Trial
Activity 4.6: Defending Preference
Chapter 5: Learning to Write by Reading Poetry
Activity 5.1: Less is More
Activity 5.2: "Found" Poetry
Activity 5.3: From Prose to Poetry
Activity 5.4: Playing with Meter
Activity 5.5: Learning from e.e. cummings
Activity 5.6: Poems Using Metaphor
Activity 5.7: Letter Poem
Activity 5.8: History and Poetry
Activity 5.9: Songs as Poetry
Activity 5:10: Inference
Chapter 6: Providing Literacy Access to All Students
Chapter 7: Reading and Reflecting on One's Own Writing
Chapter 8: Closing the Literacy Loop
References
About the Authors
About the author
Dr. Nancy Charron has worked in different capacities at the elementary, middle school, and high school levels with jobs encompassing being a general education teacher, a special education teacher, a literacy specialist, and a principal designee. She is currently working as an Associate Professor at Southern New Hampshire University.
Dr. Marilyn Fenton, an associate professor at Southern New Hampshire University, has taught writing, children's and young adult literature, and methods courses for prospective English teachers, grades 5-12. She previously taught English in high school and then served as a school district's Director of Curriculum and Instruction. She is presently involved in working with doctoral students in the Educational Leadership Program at Southern New Hampshire University.
Dr. Margaret Harris taught graduate courses in Content Literacy on Secondary Level and Social Studies Methods at Southern New Hampshire University. Prior to university teaching, she was Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction for four years and a social studies teacher on the high school level for 27 years. Dr. Harris has recently retired from Southern New Hampshire University.
Summary
This book demonstrates effective teaching practices that facilitate all students’ written language development and improve attitudes toward writing in grades 6 - 12. All teachers need to be involved in raising the literacy bar. This book provides practical and classroom-tested activities and strategies that promote success for all learners.
