Teaching the Youngest Writers: A Practical Guide - Softcover

Freeman, Marcia S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0929895266 ISBN 13: 9780929895260

Publisher: Maupin House Pub, 1998

Synopsis

Take your students from emergent to elaborate writers. This book shows you how. The most complete guide available to conducting a daily writing workshop in the primary grades, this easy-to-use professional resource includes models for managing the writing process. Teaching the Youngest Writers explains the expository, descriptive, and personal-narrative writing techniques your students need to become fluent writers. Includes stages of emergent writing, how to set up your room, how to schedule and manage the daily writing workshop, how to conduct an Author's Chair, and how to model writing and efficient peer conferences. A classic and complete resource.

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About the Author

Marcia Sheehan Freeman is an internationally-recognized writing education consultant and author, whose professional books and CraftPlus writing program assist districts across the nation in implementing K-8 writing instruction programs. She is also a writing and science consultant for educational publishers. The Cornell University graduate began her career as a high school science teacher before "moving up" to the elementary classroom.

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(from Chapter Three: Conducting the Daily Writing Workshop)

Starting with Modeled Writing.

In modeled writing, you compose in front of the class to demonstrate print-text conventions and writing skills. You can use the blackboard, an easel, or an overhead projector. You will think aloud, talking to the children about the things you consider as you compose. For example, to model wrapping text, you might write two sentences about a picture of your writing. You might say, "Whoops, I'm at the end of the paper and I didn't finish what I was telling. Where shall I continue my writing?"

Draw, write and memorize your models before it's time to use them . Use the spaces provided throughout this book to create them. Tab their pages to find them quickly. Eventually, you will want to create a collection of models for all your demonstrations and lessons, keeping them in a notebook, arranged by genre or skill. As an additional source, use transparencies of student work that demonstrate the use of a skill. Ask your colleagues to collect good samples and to share them with you. Keep these in your notebook.

Edition details

• Publisher: Maupin House Pub
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0929895266
• ISBN 13: 9780929895260
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 141