Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Writing in the Content Areas - Softcover

Chapman, Carolyn M.; King, Rita S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761938273 ISBN 13: 9780761938279

Publisher: Corwin, 2003

Synopsis

Now in one resource, you will find specific, explicit strategies for teaching writing at the same time you teach content.

This concise guide helps you work with each student′s unique skills and needs so that the student learns to apply information, to demonstrate content mastery, to think and write creatively and critically, and to solve real-world problems. helps you develop students with lifelong self-direction and confidence as writers!

Detailed chapters give you the tools you need to work with student writers of all levels:

• Creating a Climate for Writing lets you create the "Write Spot" for each student
• Knowing the Writer helps you recognize the developmental stages of each student′s writing abilities
• Diagnosing and Assessing Writing Problems offers checklists, rubrics, scales, and more, as well as "Sixteen Words For the Wise" as solutions
• Flexible Grouping for the Writing Process is a must while students work through the various steps of the writing process
• Instructional Strategies and Activities supplies novel strategies that motivate, including personification, "jump start" prompts, rhymes and riddles, and 40 writing A-Z tips
• Curriculum Approaches discusses the use of Choice Boards, Agendas, and Lesson Plans to meet each student′s needs before, during, and after the writing experience 

See Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Reading in the Content Areas

About this title

About the Authors

Carolyn Chapman is an international educational consultant, author, and teacher who has taught in kindergarten to college classrooms. Her interactive, hands-on professional development training sessions challenge educators to use strategies that ensure success for learners of all ages. Chapman has written many books about differentiated instruction, multiple intelligences, multiple assessments, and the brain-compatible classroom. She is coauthor with Gayle Gregory of the landmark Corwin Press book Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn′t Fit All.

Rita King has more than 20 years of teacher training experience and administrative experience as principal and director of Middle Tennessee State University′s teacher training program in the laboratory school. Most recently, she was an adjunct professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the university. She now consults internationally in the areas of multiple intelligences, practical applications of brain-based research, differentiated learning, reading and writing strategies, mathematics instruction, creating effective learning environments, and strategies for test success. She is the coauthor of Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Reading in the Content Areas, Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Writing in the Content Areas, and Differentiated Assessment Strategies: One Tool Doesn′t Fit All.

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761938273
• ISBN 13: 9780761938279
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176