Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product - Softcover

Gail E. Tompkins

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9780675209267: Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0675209269 ISBN 13: 9780675209267

Publisher: Maxwell Macmillan Ny, 1990

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Book by Tompkins, Gail E.

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From the Publisher:

An expanded, reorganized edition of this excellent text for writing methods courses...one that advocates a process approach to writing, focusing on strategies that will help children in Grades K-8 use the writing process to develop and improve their writing skills while they improve their writing products. The text now begins with an introductory chapter that provides an overview of the five cyclical, recursive stages of the writing process-- prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and sharing--along with practical instructional tips and techniques for each stage. Individual chapters then examine all major types of writing...through a practical, straightforward presentation which includes a wealth of children's actual writing samples that really help to bring the "writing process" to life.

From the Back Cover:

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.