Writing Strategies for All Primary Students: Scaffolding Independent Writing with Differentiated Mini-Lessons, Grades K-3 - Softcover

Richards, Janet C.; Lassonde, Cynthia A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470610719 ISBN 13: 9780470610718

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2011

Synopsis

A guide for teaching all your students the skills they need to be successful writers

The 25 mini-lessons provided in this book are designed to develop students’ self-regulated writing behaviors and enhance their self-perceived writing abilities. These foundational writing strategies are applicable and adaptable to all primary students: emergent, advanced, English Language Learners, and struggling writers. Following the SCAMPER (Screen and assess, Confer, Assemble materials, Model, Practice, Execute, Reflect) mini-lesson model devised by the authors,  the activities show teachers how to scaffold the writing strategies that students need in order to take control of their independent writing.

• Reveals helpful writing strategies, including making associations, planning, visualizing, accessing cues, using mnemonics, and more
• Offers ideas for helping students revise, check, and monitor their writing assignments
• Explains the author's proven SCAMPER model that is appropriate for students in grades K-3

Let Richards and Lassonde—two experts in the field of childhood education—guide you through these proven strategies for enhancing young children's writing skills.

About this title

About the Author

Janet C. Richards, Ph.D., is a professor at the University of South Florida in the Childhood Education and Literacy Studies Department, where she specializes in literacy. She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Reading Education as well as a literacy scholar for the International Reading Association (IRA).

Cynthia Lassonde, Ph.D., is associate professor, Elementary Education and Reading, at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Oneonta. Cynthia has co-authored several books, including Teacher Collaboration for Professional Learning.

From the Back Cover

Writing Strategies for All Primary Students contains an array of classroom-tested strategies that you can use to help students develop the skills they need to become successful and confident writers. Each strategy follows the SCAMPER (Screen and assess, Confer, Assemble materials, Model, Practice, Execute, Reflect) model devised by childhood education experts Janet C. Richards and Cynthia Lassonde. The mini-lessons from expert contributors found throughout the book can be used with all students including emerging writers, writers who struggle, English language learners, and advanced writers. As comprehensive as it is practical, Writing Strategies for All Primary Students offers

• A guide for learning how to screen and access students' writing skills

• Proven writing strategies, including making associations, planning, visualizing, accessing cues, using mnemonics, and more

• Advice for assisting students in revising, checking, and monitoring their writing assignments

• A model for incorporating writing strategy instruction and mini-lessons into any writing program

Written in a user-friendly style, Writing Strategies for All Primary Students shows you how to scaffold the writing strategies that students need to take control of and self-regulate their writing.

"This book fills a gaping niche in the available literature about teaching writing to young authors, and it does so with insight and panache. This very fine volume, written by some of the top thinkers in the field, comprehensively helps us understand how to engage young writers, how to assist them through the process of invention, and how to help them draft and shape their writing."
—Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Ph.D., professor of English Education, director of the Boise State Writing Project

"This is a must-read book that contains a trove of excellent instructional ideas that answers questions teachers have about how to teach K-3 children to write well. Through actual lessons the authors provide strategies for assessment, planning, teaching, and reflecting about writing instruction that supports the differentiated needs of young writers."
—Diane Lapp, Ed.D., Distinguished Professor of Education, San Diego State University

Includes classroom-tested strategies for:

• emerging writers

• writers who struggle

• English language learners, and

• advanced writers

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470610719
• ISBN 13: 9780470610718
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320