(Re)designing Narrative Writing Units for Grades 5-12 (Create a Plan for Teaching Narrative Writing Skills That Increases Student Learning and Literacy) - Softcover

Kathy Tuchman Glass

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1942496788 ISBN 13: 9781942496786

Publisher: Solution Tree Press, 2017

Synopsis

Teaching writing skills is a powerful and effective means for learning across all grade levels and disciplines. This user-friendly resource provides practical recommendations, strategies, and assessments for designing units of study that center on both narrative nonfiction and creative writing. Throughout the book, readers can complete exercises that equip them to create a comprehensive narrative unit of instruction that is ready to pilot. It also provides narrative activities, assessments, sample tasks, rubrics, checklists, writing sample resources, and more for fifth grade through high school.

Learn how to design and maintain a unit that improves students' narrative writing skills:

• Learn a sequential approach to building a narrative writing unit.
• Review how to structure a narrative.
• Reflect on past approaches to teaching writing skills and revise for future narrative writing lesson plans.
• Download free templates, checklists, rubrics, and narrative writing activities useful for designing a narrative writing plan and guiding lessons.
• Access professional and student resources in print and online for understanding and teaching narrative writing skills.

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Building a Narrative Unit Map
Chapter 2: Formulating a Pre- and Culminating Assessment and Establishing Criteria for Success
Chapter 3: Using Gradual Release of Responsibility for Lesson Design
Chapter 4: Designing Lessons
Chapter 5: Examining Text to Appreciate Content
Epilogue
Appendix A: Narrative and Descriptive Characteristics and Genre
Appendix B: Elements of Literature
Appendix C: Literacy Devices and Figurative Language
Appendix D: Sentence Structure -- Complex Sentences
Appendix E: Professional and Student Resources
Appendix F: List of Figures and Tables
Index

About this title

About the Author

Kathy Tuchman Glass, a consultant, is an accomplished author and former teacher with more than twenty-five years of experience in education. She provides professional development services to K-12 educators in the areas of curriculum and instruction.

She is recognized for her expertise in differentiated instruction, the Common Core State Standards for English language arts, accessing complex text, literacy strategies, and collaborative learning tasks. Kathy is a member of the International Literacy Association, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and Learning Forward.

She earned a bachelor's degree from Indiana University and a master's degree in education from San Francisco State University.

Review

"A thorough and practical resource that will help you put philosophy and best practice into action. English language arts teachers will feel inspired and more confident with the fresh ideas in this book. Teachers trained in different subject areas will find confidence for designing and teaching a narrative writing unit."

--Blair Perzentka, English Teacher, Marshall High School, Marshall, Wisconsin

"Kathy Tuchman Glass has written a user-friendly and well-thought-out resource. It checks all the boxes I look for in covering the necessities of narrative writing."

--Jani Sparr, English Teacher, West Middle School, Sioux City, Iowa

About this edition

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1942496788
• ISBN 13: 9781942496786
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 184