Building a Writing Community (Paperback)
Marcia S. Freeman
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Add to basketPaperback. New and experienced teachers appreciate this easy-to-use yet comprehensive approach to teaching young writers style and genre characteristics, composing skills, conventions, and the writing process itself. The classroom-tested techniques satisfy young writers' need for structure and content while offering them freedom to develop their style, repertoire, and voice. More than 350 classroom-tested models, lessons, procedures and activities, and thirty-seven reproducibles. If you want to create a community of writers who love to write and speak the language of writers, you'll love this book. Bonus! Fold-out "Skills Development Chart" helps your school integrate writing process teaching in grades K-6. If you want to create a community of writers who love to write and speak the language of writers, you'll love this book. The classroom-tested techniques satisfy young writers' need for structure and content while offering them freedom to develop their style, repertoire and voice. More than 350 models, lessons, procedures and activities, 37 reproducibles, and a foldout "Skills Development Chart" help schools and districts teach writing effectively. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Marcia Sheehan Freeman, an internationally recognized writing education consultant and author, assists 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.
She is the author of Building a Writing Community; Teaching the Youngest Writers; Listen to This: Developing an Ear for Expository; Models for Teaching Writing-Craft Target Skills, and most recently, Crafting Comparison Papers. These writing-education books are highly valued classroom-teacher resources, and serve as college texts in many teacher preparation programs. Her other publications include three works of children s fiction and 50 photo-illustrated science and geography Big Books and non-fiction guided reading books for Newbridge Educational Publishers, Rand McNally, Rourke Classroom Resources, and Capstone Press.
She is co-creator of the Readers for Writers series for Rourke Classroom Resources. This guided, K-2 reading and writing program with photo-illustrated, leveled texts is based on the National Science Standards.
In 2001, Maupin House released CraftPlus®, the culmination of Marcia s comprehensive writing-craft instructional approach. The nation s first and only K-8 writing curriculum and staff development resource focuses on teaching students the explicit Target SkillsTM and techniques that all writers use. This innovative, video-based resource includes a spiraling, craft-based curriculum, instructional pacing charts, and professional books. It focuses on expository, informational genres to directly support core content-area reading programs. CraftPlus® includes classroom management techniques for writing workshop instruction and study guides for study-group learning.
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