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- ISBN 9781412924610
- Weight: 200g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 23 May 2007
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Add these innovative and proven strategies to your instructional toolbox!
Join Randi Stone as she visits the classrooms of award-winning teachers to observe their tried-and-tested best practices for teaching writing to diverse elementary, middle, and high school learners.
Linked to companion volumes for teaching mathematics and science, and presenting insightful methods for building student comprehension and confidence, this book:
- Models techniques for improving achievement in literacy, vocabulary, student writing, and language arts
- Demonstrates turning a classroom into a reading and writing oasis, teaching students to blend descriptive and narrative writing, and helping learners create persuasive cover letters
- Illustrates techniques that utilize annotated bibliographies, "Punny Valentines," "Five Circles/Five Paragraphs," and much more
Packed with creative ideas and lessons that produce results, this resource will be used again and again by new and veteran teachers to expand their instructional repertoires and enrich students′ writing experiences.
Randi Stone is the author of nine Corwin Press books: Best Practices for Teaching Reading: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Writing: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Mathematics: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, and Best Practices for Teaching Science: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do. She is a graduate of Clark University, Boston University, and Salem State College. She completed her doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
