Writing Unbound - How Fiction Transforms Student Writers

"The author makes the case for teaching and allowing middle and high school English students to write fiction, a genre that fades away in the upper grades. This is the writing students want to do, and their practice of writing fiction strengthens all types of writing in the end"--

About the author

Thomas Newkirk is the bestselling author of Minds Made for Stories along with numerous other Heinemann titles, including Writing Unbound, Embarrassment, The Art of Slow Reading, The Performance of Self in Student Writing (winner of the NCTE's David H. Russell Award), and Misreading Masculinity. He taught writing at the University of New Hampshire for thirty-nine years, and founded the New Hampshire Literacy Institutes, a summer program for teachers. In addition to working as a teacher, writer, and editor, he has served as the chair of his local school board for seven years.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Newkirk
• Publisher: Heinemann Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.03.2021
• EAN: 9780325092157
• ISBN: 978-0-325-09215-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology