Stronger Writing Skills for Teens - Modes, Methods, and Materials That Work

Stronger Writing Skills for Teens offers middle and high school teachers strategies, techniques, and materials for teaching adolescent writing. It focuses on quality writing instruction and presents the modes of writing as defined by Common Core State Standards, with strategies, tips, and suggestions for teaching each mode.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: The Modes of Writing and Common Core State Standards
Chapter Two: Vocabulary and Academic Language
Chapter Three: Using Writing Rubrics and Scoring Guides to Teach and Evaluate Writing
What are Rubrics?
Critique of Rubrics
Benefits of Rubrics
Sources of Writing Rubrics
Creating Your Own Rubrics
Instructional Uses for Rubrics
Chapter Four: Expository/Explanatory Writing
Chapter Five: Narrative Writing
Chapter Six: Argument Writing
Strategies for Teaching Argument
A Lesson Plan for Argument Writing
An Opposing Viewpoints Argument
Chapter Seven: Research Writing
Viewpoints Essay
The I-Search Paper
Chapter Eight: Timed and On-Demand Writing
Chapter Nine: Using Multimodal Text and Technology to Support Writing
Multimodal Text
Google Classroom
Writing in Online Spaces
A Sample Multimodal Project: Personal Culture Exploration Project
Editing and Grading Programs
About the Author

About the author

By Gregory Berry Ed.D

Summary

Stronger Writing Skills for Teens offers middle and high school teachers strategies, techniques, and materials for teaching adolescent writing. It focuses on quality writing instruction and presents the modes of writing as defined by Common Core State Standards, with strategies, tips, and suggestions for teaching each mode.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Berry, Gregory Ed D. Berry, Gregory Ed. D Berry, Berry Gregory
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781475841657
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-4165-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Professional Development, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Language Arts / General, teacher training, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: Languages other than English, EDUCATION / Teacher Training & Certification, Educational: Language, literature and literacy, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General