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Using the Workshop Approach in the High School English Classroom : Modeling Effective Writing, Reading, and Thinking Strategies for Student Success.
Take a peek into an effective workshop-based classroom and discover how you can enhance adolescents' technical and creative abilities in reading, writing, and thinking.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Chapter 1
- Running and Writing
- The Workshop Culture: A Study of Coaching
- Conclusions and Mission
- Chapter 2
- Who Writes the Rule Book Anyway? Accountability, Tests, and the History of Rhetoric
- A Bit of History
- And What about the Other Parts of My Curriculum?
- Testing and Accountability
- Conclusions
- Suggested Reading
- Chapter 3
- Coaching and Teaching by Doing: Modeling Thinking, Writing, and Reading
- A Horror Story in Two Scenes
- Scene I: Sunday Night Back in the Dark Ages
- Scene II: Sunday Night One Week Later
- Modeling: A Simple Concept with Huge Benefits
- Modeling Gives us Fresh Experiences to Draw from
- Modeling can Transform our Classrooms
- Modeling Fosters Authentic Learning
- Modeling Will Supercharge our Planning Time
- Modeling in Our Classrooms: What Do We Do?
- Modeling Concepts for Writing
- A Lesson in Modeling Writing
- Modeling Concepts for Reading
- A Lesson in Modeling Close Reading and Analysis
- Conclusions: Pulling it all Together and Coming Full Circle
- Chapter 4
- Warming up the Writing Muscles: Two Tools for Invention
- Free Writing
- What is Free Writing ... Really?
- Why Does Free Writing Work?
- Application: Helping Our Students Discover the Magic
- A Lesson in Free Writing
- The Last Word on Free Writing
- Daybooks: A Place to Store Free Writing and Thinking
- Conclusions
- Chapter 5
- The Practice Field: Building Strength and Confidence in Writing and Literary Analysis
- Types of Practice
- Reader Response and Invention
- In-Class Drafting and Revision
- Types and Progression of Assignments as Practice
- Conclusions
- Chapter 6
- Race Day: Evaluation and the Idea of Grammar
- Grammar in Context
- The Bottom Line on Grammar
- A Grammar Lesson
- A Word of Caution.
- For Further Ideas ...
- A Word About Standards
- Watching the Race: Evaluating Student Writing
- Grading Practice Writing without Eradicating its Purpose
- Grading Response Journals or Daybooks
- Grading Published Pieces
- Portfolios: Looking at the Whole Season and Student Growth over Time
- Conclusions
- Suggested Reading
- Chapter 7
- Responding as a Spectator: The Writing Conference
- Why Conference Anyway?
- A Trek through a Conference Log
- Writing Conventions/Skills in Context
- A 50-Minute Tutoring Session Translated into a 90-Minute Class
- Basic Behavior in the Writing Conference
- A Close-up Look at a Conference
- Conclusions
- Chapter 8
- Becoming Independent: Writing and Literature Groups
- A Scenario: Student Writing as Class Literature
- Student Response to Groups
- How to Make Groups Work
- Model Functional Groups
- Provide Structure and Incentive
- Help Students Find Their Own Structure
- What about the Kid Who Doesn't Buy into Group Work?
- Timing
- Writing Groups
- Literature Groups
- Conclusions
- Suggested Reading
- Epilogue: Why Teachers Coach
- References
- Index.