Description:
From social media to school success--take student writing to the next level!
Text messages, Instagram captions, and Facebook posts...your students are already writers, with skills that serve as a springboard to the formal writing of school, college, and careers. With this book's customizable strategies, you'll help students make that transition, providing daily writing practice in your content area. Inside, you'll find:
- Engaging exercises based in the kinds of writing students already do
- Versatile "parachute writings"--quick bursts of practice to drop into a day's lesson
- Strategies for introducing academic vocabulary and making it stick
- Skill-boosting strategies for successful summarizing and using textual evidence
- Variations specific to all disciplines and content areas
Brief description:
Rebecca G. Harper, Ph.D. is Professor of Literacy at Augusta University. She has served as an invited speaker and keynote for a variety of literacy conferences and has delivered literacy professional development sessions across the country. Her research interests include sociocultural theory and critical literacy and content and disciplinary literacy. She resides in Aiken, South Carolina with her children, Amelia, Macy Belle, and Vin.
Review Quotes: Content-area teachers are asked to incorporate writing as a regular, often daily, practice. While that is obviously a good idea, what does such writing look like--and how much time will it take out of an already jam-packed curriculum? Harper clearly pondered those questions and then created quick and accessible ways to help teachers find the answers. Grab this book, take a look at the "Write Now and Write On" strategies on the first few pages, turn to the corresponding chapters, and watch your students happily (no kidding!) begin writing.--ReLeah Lent