A Community of Writers: Teaching Writing in the Junior and Senior High School (Paperback)

by Harvey Daniels (Author), Steven Zemelman (Author) "Junior and senior high school students want to write, can write, and do write..." (more)
Key Phrases: evaluating writing, intensive correction, peer writing groups, Community of Writers, Donald Graves, Defining the Process Paradigm (more...)

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Zemelman and Daniels offer detailed guidance for all aspects of teaching and using writing.

About the Author
Harvey Daniels has been a city and suburban classroom teacher and a college professor, and now works as a national consultant and author on literacy education. In language arts, Smokey is known for his pioneering work on student book clubs, as recounted in Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs and Reading Groups, and Minilessons for Literature Circles. Smokey has recently coauthored two bestselling books on content-area literacy: Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading, and the companion volume, Content-Area Writing: Every Teacher's Guide. He is also coauthor of Best Practice: Today's Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools. Daniels works with elementary and secondary teachers throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, offering demonstration lessons, workshops, and consulting, with a special focus on creating, sustaining, and renewing student-centered inquiries and discussions of all kinds. Smokey shows colleagues how

Steven Zemelman has worked in many capacities to promote the sustainability of innovative schools in Chicago. For eight years he directed the Center for City Schools at National-Louis University, and he is a founding director of the Illinois Writing Project. He has spearheaded the start of a number of innovative small high schools in the city. And he now helps guide the Chicago Schools Alliance, a network of diverse Chicago schools learning to work together in new ways to strengthen teaching and learning, build teacher leadership, and reduce the isolation that schools and teachers so often experience. His exerpiences and research in these areas led to his latest Heinemann book13 Steps to Teacher Empowerment coauthored with Harry Ross.coauthored with Harry Ross. Steve has been a frequent collaborator with Harvey "Smokey" Daniels. They have coauthored six books and videos with Heinemann, including Best Practice: Today's Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools, T

Product Details

• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: Heinemann (June 8, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0435084631
• ISBN-13: 978-0435084639
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #40,342 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book for junior and Senior high teachers, May 14, 2001

By	Stephanie Elliott (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews

I first read this book as an undergrad, and then again the summer after my first year of teaching in the Writing Project. I found so many useful things that I could actually impliment in the classroom. Z and D offer many easy to follow suggestions that set off that "why didn't I think of that" response. They also suggest that we "break the red pen" habit when "rewriting" our students' papers. As I finish up my first full year of teaching, I look back and see the many times I turned to Z&D for help in solving a writer's problem.