Synopses & Reviews
Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product continues to be the definitive book on how to teach writing in grades K-8, as it is the only text with comprehensive coverage of both
process and product. - NEW! Teacher's Notes: Supporting Struggling Writers are special features that help teachers adapt chapter content specifically for struggling students.
- NEW! Teacher's Notes: Assisting English Language Learners point out the best ways for teachers to support these student writers.
- Vignettes open every chapter to illustrate how real teachers have used the chapter content in their elementary classrooms.
- Minilessons in every chapter model skills and strategies instruction for use in the classroom.
- NEW! Instructional Previews help ground readers in chapter content, best addressing the question of what to teach and when.
- Step-by-Step features clearly illustrate instructional procedures.
- Rubrics throughout chapters help readers address and clarify assessment issues.
- NEW! A Descriptive Writing chapter addresses descriptive writing as a specific genre as well as an essential component of narrative writing, poetic writing, and other genres.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-390) and indexes.
About the Author
Gail E. Tompkins is Professor Emerita at California State Unversity, Fresno, and she continues to direct the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project. She regularly works with teachers in their kindergarten through eighth-grade classrooms and leads staff development programs on reading, language arts, and writing. In 1998 Dr. Tompkins was inducted into the California Reading Association's Reading Hall of Fame in recognition of her publication and other accomplishments in the field of reading, and recently she was awarded the prestigious Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching at California's State University, Fresno.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: PROCESS AND PRODUCT. 1. Teaching Children to Write. 2. Writing Workshop.
3. Writing Strategies and Skills.
4. Writers' Tools.
5. Assessing Students' Writing.
PART TWO: WRITING GENRES. 6. Journal Writing.
7. Letter Writing.
8. Descriptive Writing.
9. Biographical Writing.
10. Expository Writing.
11. Narrative Writing.
12. Poetry Writing.
13. Persuasive Writing.
References.
Author Index.
Subject Index.
About the Author.