Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product

Tompkins, Gail E.

ISBN 10: 0131584162 / ISBN 13: 9780131584167

Published by Prentice Hall, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131584162
• ISBN 13: 9780131584167
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 24 ounces

About this title

Synopsis

Accessible and reader-friendly, this is the definitive book on teaching writing to children in grades K-8, the only title on the market to thoroughly address both the process and the product of writing. Covers strategies for teaching prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing through writing workshops, literature focus units, and thematic units; techniques for helping children develop ideas, organize writing, choose vocabulary, apply stylistic devices, and correct mechanical errors; and, five levels of scaffolded composition instruction: modeled, shared, interactive, guided, and independent writing. Addressing Process and Product NEW! A Writing Workshop CD now included in every copy of the book gives you specific insight into classroom teaching in a workshop model, illus

About the Author

Gail E. Tompkins is Professor Emerita at California State Unversity, Fresno, and she continues to direct the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project.  She regularly works with teachers in their kindergarten through eighth-grade classrooms and leads staff development programs on reading, language arts, and writing.  In 1998 Dr. Tompkins was inducted into the California Reading Association's Reading Hall of Fame in recognition of her publication and other accomplishments in the field of reading, and recently she was awarded the prestigious Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching at California's State University, Fresno.