Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing

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Author: Kittle, Penny
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Published by Heinemann, 2008

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Title: Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing
Author: Kittle, Penny
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication year: 2008
Condition: Good
Binding: paperback
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0325010978
ISBN 13: 9780325010977
Item weight: 16 ounces
Dimensions: 116x8x145

Please join us in congratulating Penny Kittle for her 2009 NCTE Britton Award forWrite Beside Them!

This book is about teaching writing and the gritty particulars of teaching adolescents. But it is also the planning, the thinking, the writing, the journey: all I've been putting into my teaching for the last two decades. This is the book I wanted when I was first given ninth graders and a list of novels to teach. This is a book of vision and hope and joy, but it is also a book of genre units and minilessons and actual conferences with students.

-Penny Kittle

What makes the single biggest difference to student writers? When the invisible machinery of your writing processes is made visible to them.Write Beside Them shows you how to do it. It's the comprehensive book and DVD that English/language arts teachers need to ensure that teens improve their writing.

Across genres, Penny Kittle presents a flexible framework for instruction, the theory and experience to back it up, and detailed teaching information to help you implement it right away. Each section ofWrite Beside Them describes a specific element of Kittle's workshop:

Daily writing practice: writer's notebooks and quick writes
Instructional frameworks: minilessons, organization, conferring, and sharing drafts
Genre work: narrative, persuasion, and writing in multiple genres
Skills work: grammar, punctuation, and style
Assessment: evaluation, feedback, portfolios, and grading.

All along the way, Kittle demonstrates minilessons that respond to students' immediate needs, and her Student Focus sections profile and spotlight how individual writers grew and changed over the course of her workshop. In addition,Write Beside Them provides a study guide, reproducibles, writing samples from Penny and her students, suggestions for nurturing your own writing life, and a helpful FAQ. Best of all, the accompanying DVD takes you right inside Penny's classroom. Its video clips explicitly model how to make the process of writing accessible to all kids.

Penny Kittle's active coaching and can-do attitude alone will energize your teaching and inspire you to write with your students. But her strategies, expert advice, and compelling in-class video footage will help you turn inspiration into great teaching. Read Write Beside Them and discover that the most important influence for all young writers is their teacher.

Write Beside Them debuts as the field's most comprehensive, contemporary, and practical book on high school writing. Kittle not onlytells how a skillful writing teacher operates, she shows you on the accompanying DVD, with clips of kids at work in every stage of a writing workshop. And all this glorious teaching happens with real, sometimes struggling kids who remind us of our own classrooms and students. Write Beside Them is the whole package.

-Harvey Daniels

Author of Content-Area Writing and Subjects Matter

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