Ask great writers what the key to writing well is and they will tell you revision. Author Ruth Culham, both a successful writer and writing teacher, understands the challenges elementary teachers face when teaching writing and revision and now shares her knowledge in Teach Writing Well: How to Assess Writing, Invigorate Instruction, and Rethink Revision. Divided into two parts, Culham’s book provides ways to teach that are both accessible to the teacher and student. You will find techniques to assess writing that are practical, and results driven.
Inside you’ll discover:
- Culham’s traits of writing and how to use them to read and assess student work
- Ways to guide revision decisions using these traits as common language
- How to address challenges students may face within the different modes of writing (narrative, expository, and persuasive)
- Strategic lessons to teach the writer that scaffold students towards making their own craft decisions
- A chapter on mentor texts which can be used to model traits and key qualities for your students
Teach Writing Well pulls best practices together and shows writing with fresh eyes.
RUTH CULHAM launched a writing revolution with the publication of her book 6+1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide, Grades 3 and Up, followed by 6+1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for the Primary Gradesand Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for Middle School, winner of the 2011 Teacher's Choice award. Her groundbreaking work with the writing traits is the culmination of 40 years of research, practice, and passion. Ruth has published the bestselling The Writing Thief: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writingthat demonstrates how to read with a writer's eye to lift the best writing techniques from favorite authors. Ruth has also penned Dream Wakers: Mentor Texts That Celebrate Latino Cultureto support the reading and writing relationship using high quality diverse texts. Ruth's professional books have illuminated both writing traits and the reading-writing connection for countless educators around the globe.
Her many professional resources include the immensely popular, grade-specificTrait Cratesthat use beautiful children's literature titles to spotlight and teach each writing trait and drive home the reading-writing connection. Ruth's ground-breaking, Teach Writing Well, her newest and most thorough professional text enhances teachers' professional understanding of teaching writing by unlocking the secrets of revision in its two-part approach: read the writing--teach the writer.
Ruth is a contributor to The Reading Teacherand Educational Leadership. She travels extensively delivering highly energetic and well-received workshops and keynotes.Ruth wasEnglish Teacher of the Year in Montana, one of the highlights of her 19-year teaching career. Culham holds specialty degrees in Library Science and Elementary, Middle, and Secondary English Education.
Check out her website at culhamwriting.comfor more information on all of her exemplary professional books, services, and curricular resources.
