Envisioned as a story, a guide, a resource, and an aesthetic experience, this book features the work of a multigenerational collective of K-12 educators, students, and teaching artists seeking educational justice. This multivocal approach illustrates how bringing together arts-infused writing pedagogies, with the visionary and intellectual force…

A guide to understanding dyslexia in children and youth, with strategies for assessing and teaching reading and spelling. In today's digital world, reading and writing are more important than ever. Students are reading and writing text on smartphones, tablets, and laptops as well as in school for hours every day. Yet many of these students will…

Teaching in remote, distance, and hybrid environments can be overwhelming and confusing and poses many challenges for novice and veteran teachers alike. In this comprehensive and practice-ready book, you'll find clear ideas for implementing the best practices of English-language instruction in remote teaching settings. Understanding that remote…

The classroom practices discussed in "Effective Second Language Writing" reflect various trends and methodologies; however, the underlying theme in this volume of the Classroom Practice Series is the need for clear and meaningful communication between ESL writers and their readers. While approaches differ, two core beliefs are constant: ESL…

Discusses expectations, and the results of those expectations, that a teacher may set for a new class. Suggests that a willingness to abandon the lesson plans and respond to the needs of the class is necessary. (MS)

Examines the process of writing and concludes that a teacher's affirmation and encouragement is needed for a student to feel his or her work has validity. (DF)

Presents a professional writer and writing teacher's ideas on writing and the writing process. (JL)

Reveals the drawbacks to expert pronouncements on the teaching of writing. (JL)

Enumerates the transitions, adjustments, challenges and satisfactions that new teachers of technical writing will face. Makes seven points about the content and emphasis of technical writing instruction and lists readings in technical writing. (RL)

Focuses on the signs and characteristics of maturity in children's writing. Discusses signs such as providing details; elaborating on the subject; varying sentence patterns; deepening the presentation; unfolding the presentation; and sustaining the focus of the topic. Discusses the teacher's role. (RS)

Reflects on what it is like to be a writer and how others might help the writer. (HOD)

Discusses how the eloquent "I" cultivates a deepened self-dialogue and offers students an epistemological and rhetorical discipline. Reconfigures Mikhail Bakhtin's ethics of "otherness" and his dialogic-prompted way of knowing. Discusses looking for the eloquent "I" in the writing classroom. (SG)

When your school or district wants to do more to help all teachers become effective teachers of reading and writing, here's a book that will show you how to maximize your efforts through differentiated literacy coaching. This research-based, school-proven approach helps you implement eight professional development formats ranging from coplanning…

Arguing that writing must be a construction of reality and a discovery of meaning, proposes a role for the writing teacher analogous to the facilitating relationship of professional writers and their editors. Identifies three principles for the teacher as editor: (1) do not give assignments, (2) do not give grades, and (3) ask writers to talk…

Describes a teacher's presentation in the classroom of the drafts, notes, outlines, and other artifacts from his own papers. Recommends that teachers show their students evidence of their own struggle with the writing process in order to encourage them and convince them that all writers hesitatingly begin with a mess. (JG)