Inside Writing: How to Teach the Details of Craft

Penny Kittle Donald H. Graves

ISBN 10: 0325007292 / ISBN 13: 9780325007298

Published by Heinemann Educational Books, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Inside Writing: How to Teach the Details of Craft
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0325007292
• ISBN 13: 9780325007298
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Learn more about the Heinemann Seminar based on this book: Inside the Teaching of Writing Your curriculum is packed, and you have barely enough instructional time to teach students essential writing skills, let alone how to combine those skills to form cohesive, compelling work. Fortunately, there is a solution to the time crunch, a quicker, more effective way to help children understand the complexities of writing, and Don Graves and Penny Kittle are ready to share it with you. In Inside Writing, Graves and Kittle show you the power behind an apprenticeship approach to writing instruction where you mentor students using your own writing-even if you don't consider yourself a writer. Inside Writing is a practical, flexible three-part program that gives you numerous entryways for learning how to model the central elements of the craft: topic choice rereading details response conventions the writing life. Begin with any aspect of Inside Writing, and you'll discover new insights about high

About the Authors

As a professional development coordinator for the Conway, New Hampshire, School District, PENNY KITTLE acts as a district-wide literacy coach and directs new-teacher mentoring. In addition, she teaches writing at Conway's Kennett High School. Penny is the author of two other books with Heinemann - Inside Writing (2005), coauthored with Donald H. Graves, and Public Teaching (2003) - and she is a Heinemann Professional Development Provider.

DONALD H. GRAVES has been involved in writing research for two decades. His books Writing: Teachers & Children at Work (Heinemann, 1983) and A Fresh Look at Writing (Heinemann, 1994) are best-sellers throughout the English-speaking world and have revolutionized the way writing is taught in schools. Dr. Graves has been a teacher, school principal, and language supervisor, education director, and a director of language in bilingual, ESL, and special programs. He has also been a co-director of an undergraduate urban teacher preparation program and a professor of an early childhood program. He is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire and lives in Jackson, New Hampshire.