Ages 10-16
Writing for Real: Strategies for Engaging Adolescent Writers
Ross M. Burkhardt
Getting adolescents to love writing is one of the most difficult tasks a teacher faces.
Writing for Real offers a wealth of writing strategies that give pupils real reasons to write, grounded in the real world and in pupils’ interests.
Teachers can use this book as a toolbox, providing a blueprint for their own classrooms or it can be used as a guide for a complete school year of teaching writing. Readers will learn how to:
- lay the groundwork for a writing community on the first day of school
- motivate young people to write
- get classes to care about the conventions of English, including grammar and mechanics
- help pupils master specific forms from traditional genres to new forms of expression
- successfully organise writing groups
- deepen pupil response to writing
- use classroom publication to promote good writing
- connect writing to life through journals
Whether you work with struggling writers or those who already love to write, these strategies will engage your pupils in meaningful tasks that teach them the power of good, effective, purposeful writing.
2003 312pp paperback
978-1-57110-358-1
£29.99
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