‘Filled with easy-to-implement ideas, clearly explained. This book helps teachers differentiate with confidence. I absolutely recommend it to ALL teachers.’
—Steve Knobl, Principal
Gulf High School, New Port Richey, FL
‘Chapman and King have done it again. The new edition has so many new activities and strategies for teachers to help students become motivated to write and become better writers!’
—Linda Prichard, Pre K/Fifth-Grade Instructional Specialist
Rutherford County Schools, Murfreesboro, TN
Use writing as a tool for helping students master content!
Every classroom is made up of students at different levels of proficiency in writing. This concise guide helps teachers work with each student′s unique skills and needs so that the student learns to apply information, demonstrate content mastery, think creatively and critically, and solve real-world problems through writing.
This updated edition of a best-selling book offers explicit strategies for differentiating writing instruction to help students learn content and develop as writers. The authors address how to create a climate for writing, use flexible groupings, differentiate instruction, and assess student writing. Offering new strategies and activities for effective writing instruction, this second edition:
- Covers informational text writing and critical thinking skills
- Includes guidance for working with English language learners
- Discusses current research about writing and learning
- Offers expanded coverage of assessment methods and tools
Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Writing in the Content Areas provides educators with the tools they need to address students′ writing and learning needs across different grade levels, developmental stages, and learning styles.
Mục lục
About the Authors
Introduction
Infusing Writing in the Content Areas
Writing and the Brain
Rationale for Writing in the Content Areas
Turn On the Writer
Every Teacher Is a Writing Teacher: The Power Is Yours!
2. Creating a Climate for Writing
Establishing the Effective Writing Environment
Create a Safe and Positive Atmosphere
Creating a Physical Environment for Writing
Razzmatazz to Thingamajigs
Find the Write Spot
Assessing the Physical Writing Climate
Summary
3. Knowing the Writer
Stages of a Writer
Diagnosing the Writing Characters
Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences
4. Differentiating the Writing Process and Flexible Groupings
Immerse Students in the Writer′s Craft
Types of Writing
The Block Party
The Writing Process
Step 1: Getting Started: Prewriting
Step 2: Sloppy Copy: First Draft
Step 3: Hamming It Up: Revision
Step 4: Turning It Up: Editing
Step 5: Neat Sheet: Final Copy
Step 6: Publishing: Sharing and Celebrating
Flexible Grouping
Summary
5. Instructional Strategies and Activities for the Differentiated Writing Classroom
Teaching Writing Strategy Strategically
Informational Text Writing and Critical Thinking
Writing Strategies for ELL Learners
Differentiating Writing With Formats and Genres
Planning for Individual Needs
Writing Strategies
Writing From A to Z
6. Planning, Assessing, and Evaluating Writing
Lesson Planning Model for Writing in the Content Areas
Effective Assessment Tools
References
Index
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Rita King has more than 20 years of teacher training experience and administrative experience as principal and director of Middle Tennessee State University′s teacher training program in the laboratory school. Most recently, she was an adjunct professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the university. She now consults internationally in the areas of multiple intelligences, practical applications of brain-based research, differentiated learning, reading and writing strategies, mathematics instruction, creating effective learning environments, and strategies for test success. She is the coauthor of Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Reading in the Content Areas, Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Writing in the Content Areas, and Differentiated Assessment Strategies: One Tool Doesn′t Fit All.
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