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The Writing Revolution : a Straightforward Program to Help Your Students Write Well and Think Critically.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Writing Revolution: A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Foreword; Introduction: How to Lead a Writing Revolution in Your Classroom-and Why You Need One; The Problem: Assigning Writing but Not Teaching It; Beyond Writing: How Writing Instruction Improves Students' Reading, Speaking, and Thinking; A Brief History: The Origins of The Writing Revolution; What Makes The Writing Revolution Revolutionary: Deliberate Practice; The Six TWR Principles.
- Principle 1: Students Need Explicit Instruction in Writing, Beginning in the Early Elementary GradesPrinciple 2: Sentences Are the Building Blocks of All Writing; Principle 3: When Embedded in the Content of the Curriculum, Writing Instruction Is a Powerful Teaching Tool; Principle 4: The Content of the Curriculum Drives the Rigor of the Writing Activities; Principle 5: Grammar Is Best Taught in the Context of Student Writing; Principle 6: The Two Most Important Phases of the Writing Process Are Planning and Revising; How to Use This Book; Key Points to Keep in Mind.
- How This Book Is Organized and What It CoversNotes; Chapter 1: Sentences: The Basic Building Blocks of Writing; Make It Correct: Using Sentence Activities to Teach Grammar and Conventions; What Makes a Sentence a Sentence: Fragments, Scrambled Sentences, and Run-Ons; Start With Speaking: Oral Activities With Fragments; Put It in Writing: Written Activities With Fragments; Find the Fragment: Embedding Fragments in Text; Piece It Together: Unscrambling Scrambled Sentences; Put the Brakes On: Correcting Run-On Sentences; Introduce Some Variety: The Four Basic Sentence Types.
- Getting to Know the Sentence TypesUsing Sentence Types in Writing; What Do You Know? Developing Questions; Worth a Thousand Words: Developing Questions About Pictures; Test Yourself: Developing Questions About Content; Let's Play Jeopardy: Giving Students Answers and Asking for Questions; Conjunctions, Complexity, and Clauses; The Power of Basic Conjunctions: Because, But, and So; How to Say It in Writing: Subordinating Conjunctions; Although We've Never Met . . .: Introducing Your Students to Subordinating Conjunctions; Another Name for a Noun: Appositives.
- Identifying, Matching, and Creating AppositivesPut Them Together: Sentence Combining; A Daily Dose of the Revolution: Using Sentence Activities in the Classroom; Notes; Chapter 2: Sentence Expansion and Note-Taking: Getting Students to Process What They've Read; Bigger and Better: Expanding Sentences to Expand Students' Knowledge and Responses; How to Create a Kernel Sentence; Choosing Your Question Words; Demonstrating How to Expand a Sentence; What Do You See? Using Sentence Expansion to Write Captions for Images; The Power of Note-Taking: Key Words and Phrases, Abbreviations, and Symbols.