Building Strong Writers in Middle School: Classroom-Ready Activities That Inspire Creativity and Support Core Standards - Softcover

Delisle, Ph.D. Jim; Delisle, Deb

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575423707 ISBN 13: 9781575423708

Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Improve proficiency in core language arts concepts with 24 classroom-ready activities that align with Common Core State Standards. By engaging students in meaningful language arts activities that relate to their lives, teachers can promote authentic writing in which students explore their personal thoughts and beliefs, resulting in richer work. Complete with step-by-step directions and student examples—and developed and tested in public and private classrooms with students of varying abilities—Building Strong Writers in Middle School helps students understand themselves and one another more deeply, contemplate how their writing can affect the larger world, and express themselves in literary forms. With writing now being required across the curriculum, teaching language arts at the middle school level is more important than ever. Digital content includes reproducible handouts.

About this title

About the Author

Deb Delisle has been an educator for more than thirty years and currently serves as Ohio’s State Superintendent of Education. Prior to that, she was a school superintendent, a curriculum director, an elementary principal, a teacher of primary and middle school kids, and a K–12 gifted coordinator. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Council of Chief State School Officers and is coauthor of Growing Good Kids and numerous articles on gifted child education and reform-based education.

Jim Delisle, Ph.D., has taught gifted children and those who work on their behalf for more than thirty years, including twenty-five years as a professor of special education at Kent State University. The author of more than 250 articles and fourteen books, he is a frequent presenter on gifted children’s intellectual and emotional growth.
 

Edition details

• Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575423707
• ISBN 13: 9781575423708
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160