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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
Gregory Berry teaches English at South Salem High School, where he has also served as teacher leader, instructional coach, and department coordinator, and is also an adjunct English instructor at Chemeketa Community College. He received his BA in English, BS in Education, and MS is education from Eastern Oregon University and his doctorate in educational leadership, curriculum, and instruction from Portland State University in 2009. He is the author of Literacy for Learning: A Handbook of Content Area Strategies for Middle and High School Teachers, published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2014 and Cultivating Adolescent Literacy: Standards, Strategies and Performance Tasks for Reading and Writing, published in 2017.
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.
