This text is ideal for undergraduate or graduate courses in Elementary Language Arts where the focus is on writing or teaching writing. Using a process approach to writing, this text focuses on teaching strategies that will help children in grades K-8 use the writing process to develop and improve their writing skills and their writing products. It examines all major types of writing through a practical presentation that includes a wealth of children's authentic writing samples which helps bring the writing process to life.
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One of the primary strengths of the Tompkins text is that the full range of genres taught in K-8 settings is represented, giving novice teachers an idea of the many kinds of writing they can use to strengthen their students’ content literacy. My beginning teachers love this text!
Nikola Hobbel, Humboldt State University
There is much good, practical advice here for teachers — very accurate and on-target, lots of good assessment tools. If only my teachers had taught me poetry with this book!
Mayra Daniel, Northern Illinois University
This is an excellent book. This edition is a significant improvement that has not lost any of the original efficacy. The balance, level headedness combined with “just enough” research support are excellent.
Guy Tranin, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
The examples are appropriate and lively — each example thoroughly explains the concept further for the reader. The rubrics and checklists for writing are great.
Karla Broadus, University of Texas, San Antonio
The use of the classroom as a basis for examples is helpful and the figures used to illustrate bring the information together. All of the step by step sections help to bring the content of the text into practice. Varied grade levels represented throughout help to make this text effective for teacher candidates who are contemplating teaching at different levels.
Gail Brown, Randolph College
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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An expanded, reorganized edition of this excellent text for writing methods courses...one that advocates a process approach to writing, focusing on strategies that will help children in Grades K-8 use the writing process to develop and improve their writing skills while they improve their writing products. The text now begins with an introductory chapter that provides an overview of the five cyclical, recursive stages of the writing process-- prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and sharing--along with practical instructional tips and techniques for each stage. Individual chapters then examine all major types of writing...through a practical, straightforward presentation which includes a wealth of children's actual writing samples that really help to bring the "writing process" to life.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A very teacher-useful book...finally!,
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This review is from: Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product (3rd Edition) (Paperback)
After suffering through Lucy Calkins's huge book of little use and Donald Graves's dry meditations, I finally found a book that is worth saving after that graduate writing course is over. Tompkins devotes a good deal of time discussing the many types of expository writing and many genre studies, above and beyond the theories and ideas about setting up a writing workshop. The activities and examples are clear and useful, the diagrams terrific. Tompkins really knows how to write and, I assume, to teach. I will be using this book to teach graduate students of education and add its wonderful contents to my own repetoire of teaching tools in my 4th gr. classroom.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product (4th Edition) (Paperback)
This book is an excellent resource for teachers. It is full of great ideas and of lessons for writing. It is also very helpful to those teachers who are reluctant to have their students write daily. The feature that I like best is that the author includes great trade book lists to assist the teacher in modeling good writing.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product (4th Edition) (Paperback)
I already had an earlier addition of this book that I borrowed from a friend because I needed it for one of my graduate classes. Since books are soooo expensive we share whenever we can, but I really found this book to be useful so I bought my own copy. I highly recommend it for K-5 teachers...even upper grade teachers could benefit from it. It's full of ideas for writing in every genre. An excellent resource.
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