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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794864903321

Autore

Daniels Harvey <1947->

Titolo

The best-kept teaching secret : how written conversations engage kids, activate learning, and grow fluent writers, K-12 / / Harvey "Smokey" Daniels & Elaine Daniels

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin, a SAGE Company, , [2013]

�2013

ISBN

1-4833-8976-6

1-4833-3287-X

1-4522-7757-5

1-4833-8975-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 229 pages) : color illustrations

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

372.62/3

Soggetti

English language - Composition and exercises - Study and teaching (Elementary)

Letter writing - Study and teaching (Elementary)

Communication in education

Active learning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter 1. Letters leverage learning -- chapter 2. A community of correspondents -- chapter 3. Mini memos -- chapter 4. Dialogue journals -- chapter 5. Write-arounds -- chapter 6. Digital discussions.

Sommario/riassunto

Your fast-track to student engagement Everywhere Smokey Daniels goes--every school he visits, every workshop he leads, every keynote he gives--there's one teaching strategy that teachers embrace above all others. That single method for transforming students from passive spectators into active learners  for evoking curiosity, inspiring critical thinking, and building powerful writers along the way. Now, with Elaine Daniels as Smokey's coauthor, that best-kept teaching secret is revealed to teachers at large: Written Conversations. Just what make Written Conversations so potent? An ongoing, thoughtful correspondence between students, and between students and their teachers, Written Conversations, above all else, catch and ride the wave



of social interaction, which in turn makes school matter to kids. It's that simple. Structure by structure, from beginning to end, Smokey ...