Best practices in writing instruction / edited by Steve Graham, Charles A. MacArthur, Jill Fitzgerald.
Provides strategies for improving K-12 writing instruction. The contributors demonstrate proven ways to teach different aspects of writing, with chapters on planning, revision, sentence construction, handwriting, spelling, and motivation. The use of the Internet in instruction is addressed, and exem...
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New York :
Guilford Press,
[2007]
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| Series: | Solving problems in the teaching of literacy.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : best practices in writing instruction / Steve Graham, Charles A. MacArthur, and Jill Fitzgerald
- Designing writing programs. Writing instruction in engaging and effective elementary settings / Michael Pressley [and others] ; Best practices in implementing a process approach to teaching writing / Ruie J. Pritchard and Ronald L. Honeycutt ; Best narrative writing practices when teaching from a developmental framework / Anne McKeough [and others] ; Best practices in developing a writing across the curriculum program in the secondary school / George E. Newell, Susan Koukis, and Stacy Boster.
- Strategies for teaching and learning. Writing instruction for young children : methods targeting the multiple demands that writers face / David Coker ; Best practices in teaching planning / Steve Graham and Karen R. Harris ; Best practices in teaching evaluation and revision / Charles A. MacArthur ; Improving sentence construction skills through sentence-combining practice / Bruce Saddler ; Best practices in spelling and handwriting / Bob Schlagal ; Best practices in promoting motivation for writing / Pietro Boscolo and Carmen Gelati ; Best practices in using the Internet to support writing / Rachel Karchmer-Klein ; Best practices in teaching writing to adolescents / Dolores Perin ; Best practices in writing assessment / Robert C. Calfee and Roxanne Greitz Miller
- Special populations. What is sound writing instruction for multilingual learners? / Jill Fitzgerald and Steve Amendum ; Best practices in teaching writing to students with special needs / Susan De La Paz.