Improving students' writing, K-8 : from meaning-making to high stakes! / / Diane M. Barone, Joan Taylor ; cover designer, Rose Storey

• Autore: Barone Diane M.
• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2006; ©2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (185 p.)
• Disciplina: 372.62044
• Soggetto topico: English language - Composition and exercises - Study and teaching
• Persona (resp. second.): TaylorJoan E.; StoreyRose
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""About the Authors""; ""Chapter 1 - Writing to Learn and Understand""; ""Purposes for Writing""; ""Yesterdayâ€?s and Todayâ€?s Challenges""; ""Literacy Connections in Your Classroom""; ""Speaking and Writing""; ""Reading and Writing""; ""Listening/Viewing and Writing""; ""The Three Hardest Challenges in Helping Student Writers""; ""Getting Them Started""; ""Keeping Them Going""; ""Getting Them Finished""; ""Writing together as a Way of Communicating, Learning, and Meaning-Making""; ""Chapter 2 - Writing about Information""; ""Informal Writing"" ; ""Writing about Mathematics""""Writing about Science""; ""Writing about Social Studies""; ""Writing about Vocabulary""; ""Formal Writing""; ""Report Writing""; ""Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI)""; ""Connections between Informational Text and Student Writing""; ""Organizations of Informational Text""; ""Reading Informational Text to Learn about Structure""; ""Leveled Books""; ""Picture Books""; ""Chapter Books""; ""Reference Books""; ""Final thoughts""; ""Chapter 3 - Writing Narrative""; ""Narrative Writing""; ""Narrative Writing in Classrooms""; ""The Writing Process"" ; ""The Writing Workshop""""Writing Development""; ""Early Writing Development""; ""Developing Writing Development""; ""Proficient Writing Development""; ""Gender and Writing""; ""Informal Narrative Writing""; ""Journals""; ""Reader Response Journals""; ""Formal Narrative Writing""; ""Letter Writing""; ""Poetry""; ""Stories""; ""Multigenre Writing""; ""Final thoughts""; ""Chapter 4 - Writing with Purpose for Real Audiences""; ""Part of a Classroom Culture""; ""Writing for Real Audiences""; ""Writing to Others""; ""Writing for Particular Audiences""; ""Writing for Self"" ; ""Writing for Real Purposes""""Analyzing Writing as a Craft""; ""Revision""; ""Changing Viewpoints""; ""Changing Genres""; ""Responding to Writing""; ""Self-Check Responses""; ""Peer Responses""; ""Teacher-Student Conferences""; ""Editing""; ""Writing with Reason""; ""Chapter 5 - Preparing for High-Stakes Writing Assessments""; ""Historical Perspective""; ""Writing Assessment Methods""; ""Objective Methods of Writing Assessment""; ""Direct Methods of Writing Assessment""; ""Writing Assessment Tasks""; ""Helping Students with Trait-Scored Divergent and Convergent Assessment Items"" ; ""Divergent Writing Assessments""""Convergent Writing Assessments""; ""Product versus Process""; ""Final thoughts""; ""Chapter 6 - Connecting Writing and Classroom Conversation""; ""Academic Conversations""; ""Informal Oral and Written Conversations""; ""Formal Oral and Written Conversations""; ""Final thoughts""; ""Afterword""; ""Appendix""; ""References""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: This manual for teaching all aspects of writing provides examples, rubrics, and how-to's for helping students grow in skills and write for high stakes and ""constructed response"" tests.
• Titolo autorizzato: Improving students' writing, K-8
• ISBN: 1-4833-6173-X; 1-4833-6390-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816660603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II