Comprehensive, innovative, and practical, this text offers educators a powerful approach to teaching writing. Rather than have students perform repetitive exercises, it focuses on engaging students in grappling with words and experiences to make meaning. Such topics as the paradigm shift from product to process; an overview of the writing process; teaching prewriting and how to shape writing; examining genres; collaborative learning; classroom management strategies; grammar within the writing process; proofreading, editing, and publishing; cognitive developmental theory; developmental writing and spelling; brain theory; research; assessment and grading; the reading/writing connection; and writing across the curriculum are covered. Grades K-12.
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"Now in an extensively updated and significantly expanded second edition Acts of Teaching: How To Teach Writing….is a 501-page compendium of instruction on all aspects of the art and craft of teaching aspiring authors how to write effectively regardless of the genre or discipline they are writing in or for….Acts of Teaching is not only very highly recommended as an educational curriculum guide and supplement for the teaching of writing in a college or university level course, it is also invaluable reading for any aspiring writer seeking to become as effective as they can be within the demands of any scientific discipline, literary genre, or commercial enterprise they might find themselves working in."
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"This updated text focuses on educating teachers with unique ways to engage students in the activity of learning to write….Chapters on how to shape student writing, assess writing, edit paragraphs, publish, and write collaboratively give teachers a broad spectrum of writing knowledge. The book's second half elaborates on the growth and development of the brain as it pertains to learning in adolescents, cognitive theories of learning, and connecting with the writer through reading and research….The samples of student writing and examples of teacher moderated exercises will be a welcome assistance to first time teachers whether it is elementary or middle school."
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"This updated text focuses on educating teachers with unique ways to engage students in the activity of learning to write."
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"This gem of a book not only identifies qualities of good writing, it also shows writers how to produce quality. Carroll and Wilson 'get it.' To write well is difficult. Yet hard work can yield joyful results."
(Cris Tovani, author of I Read It But Don't Get It and Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?
) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Joyce Armstrong Carroll, Ed.D., H.L.D., writer and teacher, trains teachers in the teaching of writing, and novelists and academicians for publication. She co-directs the Abydos Learning international formerly the New Jersey Writing Project in Texas and travels throughout Texas and the United States giving workshops on what she loves--writing and the teaching of writing. Her many publications include Acts of Teaching: How to Teach Writing, The Best of Dr. JAC, Jesus Didn't Use Worksheets, Dr. JAC's Phonics Friendly Books, and the Prentice Hall Writing and Grammar Series: Grades Six through Twelve. She co-edited the award-winning poetry anthology Poetry After Lunch: Poems to Read Aloud.
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This review is from: Acts of Teaching: How to Teach Writing: A Text, a Reader, a Narrative (Paperback)
Authors Carroll and Wilson focus on students AND teachers as writers. This text is critical to those who teach writing. It includes specific activities and strategies <research-based> for prewriting,conferencing,revision,publishing. Included are many helpful journal articles. It is the most successful tool I've used in over 20 years of teaching students of all grade and ability levels. It is a MUST HAVE. In an empty classroom beseiged by flames, this is THE text I'd grab !
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Invaluable reading for any aspiring writer,
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This review is from: Acts of Teaching: How to Teach Writing A Text A Reader, A Narrative, Foreword for First Edition by Janet Emig, Foreword for Second Edition by Edmund J. Farrell (Paperback)
The art of writing is a learned skill honed through practice. Now in an extensively updated and significantly expanded second edition, "ACTS Of Teaching: How To Teach Writing" by academicians Joyce Armstrong Carroll and Edward E. Wilson (both of whom are Co-Directors of Abydos Learning International) is a 501-page compendium of instruction on all aspects of the art and craft of teaching aspiring authors how to write effectively regardless of the genre or discipline they are writing in or for. After an informed and informative introduction, "ACTS Of Teaching: How To Teach Writing" is dived into two primary sections dealing with 'Process' and 'The Theory and Pedagogy'. An overview of writing as a process beings with 'Prewriting: More Than the Beginning', continues on with 'Writing and Organizing', 'Writing as a Social Act', 'Grammar and Correcting', 'Grammar through Revision', Grammar through Reformulation', 'Postwriting and Publishing', and 'Assessment'. "ACTS Of Teaching: How To Teach Writing" continues with a major and detailed chapter on the way the brain works in the writing process, before going on to address such issues as 'Learning How to Learn', 'Early Literacy', 'Research', and 'Writing as a Mode of Learning. Enhanced with an extensive and extended bibliography, "ACTS Of Teaching: How To Teach Writing" also features nine highly relevant appendices (note especially the first one offering a List of Genres), and a comprehensive index. "ACTS Of Teaching: How To Teach Writing" is note only very highly recommended as an educational curriculum guide and supplement for the teaching of writing in a college or university level course, it is also invaluable reading for any aspiring writer seeking to become as effective as they can be within the demands of any scientific discipline, literary genre, or commercial enterprise they might find themselves working in.
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paragraph blocs, hexagonal writing, writing and spelling development, related mathematics concepts, functional paragraphs, sentence stubs, taxon memory, proofreading sheets, transitional arena, topical paragraph, prephonemic spelling, dialectical notebook, related science concepts, locale memory, classical invention, students reenter, spirit ribbons, analytic scale, prewriting strategies, primary trait scoring, consonant writing, anchor papers, holistic scoring, prewriting techniques, related social studies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Writing Connection, Instructional Goal, Teacher Conferences, Tomato Lady, Author's Chair, Teacher Ideas Press, Carroll's Guide, Tom Smith, Sarah Lou, The Moustache, The Gettysburg Address, Say Back, Howard Gardner, Civil War, Christopher Columbus, Support Definition, Cris Tovani, Peter Elbow, Duck's Nest, Joyce Armstrong Carroll, Jerome Bruner, Day-Celebration of the Publication-Share, Carroll's Authentic Strategies, Expectation Example, Acts of Meaning Browse Sample Pages:
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paragraph blocs, hexagonal writing, writing and spelling development, related mathematics concepts, functional paragraphs, sentence stubs, taxon memory, proofreading sheets, transitional arena, topical paragraph, prephonemic spelling, dialectical notebook, related science concepts, locale memory, classical invention, students reenter, spirit ribbons, analytic scale, prewriting strategies, primary trait scoring, consonant writing, anchor papers, holistic scoring, prewriting techniques, related social studies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Writing Connection, Instructional Goal, Teacher Conferences, Tomato Lady, Author's Chair, Teacher Ideas Press, Carroll's Guide, Tom Smith, Sarah Lou, The Moustache, The Gettysburg Address, Say Back, Howard Gardner, Civil War, Christopher Columbus, Support Definition, Cris Tovani, Peter Elbow, Duck's Nest, Joyce Armstrong Carroll, Jerome Bruner, Day-Celebration of the Publication-Share, Carroll's Authentic Strategies, Expectation Example, Acts of Meaning Browse Sample Pages:
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