The , written by the Writing Study Group of the 起点传媒Executive Committee, pinpoints 11 key issues in the effective teaching of writing. Over the next few weeks, we will unpack each one. This week, we will look at:
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In any writing classroom, some of the writing is for others and some of the writing is for the writer. Forms of writing such as personal narrative, journals, written reflections, observations, and writing-to-learn strategies are important in the writing classroom.
This is completely devoted to the Writer鈥檚 Notebook. In the issue, 起点传媒leaders with years of experience using writer’s notebooks as tools for thinking share key strategies and teaching ideas relevant to K-8 teachers.
of shares how writer鈥檚 notebooks allow students a space both to develop thinking and to聽write in volume鈥攈ence helping them learn to write by writing.
Filled with practical ideas, assignments, and examples of student writing, offers a vision of what is possible for young writers鈥攂oth in writing across the curriculum and in writing workshop.
鈥溾�� outlines strategies for teaching students to reflect upon their own writing, including reflection, asking questions, writer鈥檚 log, the draft letter, using models, the portfolio letter.
Various strategies can be employed to design a student-centered conference environment聽that helps developmental students find a place in the academic community as described in 鈥溾�� from .
How do you use the in your classroom?