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Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product (4th Edition)

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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.

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.

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.

Be aware that if you purchase "new", you will not be receiving the CD that is supposed to accompany the text.

I did receive the book quickly, and in new condition.

Whether you're a veteran or a newbie at teaching, Tompkins' book will give you a foundation for lessons on any type of writing you need to teach. I'm a published author as well as a teacher, and I use it all year long. This isn't the latest edition, but it really doesn't matter. Grab it, you'll love it.

Pleased with this book. I had to buy this book for one of my education courses. It is very helpful and useful.

I bought this book for my Reading/Writing class. It is well written and contains case-studies, which I appreciate. I am sure I will appreciate it even more when I am a teacher and need ideas for my classroom. I have not used the dvd included, yet.

I have no complaints with this transaction. Everything went perfectly. The book was in excellent condition and arrived in a timely fashion. I would definitely buy from this seller again.

Certainly a good buy. This book is practical and inspirational. How education has advanced since the days I was in elementary school!

Need this book for a class and I got it on time! Thank you!