Writing to Make an Impact - Expanding the Vision of Writing in the Secondary Classroom

"Featuring practices straight from the classrooms of outstanding teachers, this lively resource shows how writing can make an impact in the world. The text is rich with examples of student work, as well as ready-to-use lessons that include a full range of writing-poetry, narrative, petitions, proposals, emails, self-reflections, long-term projects, and critical analyses"--

About the author

Sandra Murphy is former secondary teacher and professor emerita of education at the University of California, Davis. Mary Ann Smith is a former secondary teacher. She directed the Bay Area and California Writing Projects and served as director of government relations for the National Writing Project.

Summary

Through ideas and practices straight from the classrooms of outstanding teachers, this lively resource illustrates writing that makes an impact on a reader, a writer, or a cause - writing that everyone wants to read. The book is rich with student work that shows how writing can make things happen in the world.

Product details

• Authors: Sandra Murphy, Mary Ann Smith
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780807763971
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-6397-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works; Didaktische Kompetenz und Lehrmethoden, Alphabetisierung, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing, Education / Teaching, EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Language Arts, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy