The Writing Menu: Ensuring Success for Every Student [Paperback]

Melissa Forney (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1999

Here's the powerful idea behind The Writing Menu: Tailor a results-based writing program to fit your students' unique learning styles, cultures, interests, and attention spans, and you integrate writing with science, social studies and math into a writing workshop.

A cafeteria-style menu of expository and narrative prompts allows students to pick and choose among a wide variety of writing choices. Grade-appropriate target-skill lists for K - 8th grades ensure accountability with state standards.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Melissa Forney has done an incredible job of putting together the concepts of sound writing skills and practical teaching strategies for teaching all kinds of learners. The format is easy to read and understand, yet she deals with some very complex issues." -- Cynthia Tobias, author of The Way They Learn, and Bringing Out the Best in Your Child

About the Author

Author and Educational Writing Consultant Melissa Forney's dynamic writing seminars and humorous, motivational keynote speeches have delighted audiences nationwide. Schools using her methods are enjoying higher writing assessment scores, teacher enthusiasm, improved student writing and an increase in parental support. Her teacher inservice training and writing workshops consistently receive the highest participant evaluations.

Product Details

• Paperback: 132 pages
• Publisher: Maupin House Publishing (September 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0929895339
• ISBN-13: 978-0929895338
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #505,256 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Melissa Forney's writing workshops combine her enthusiasm as a children's author with her years of teaching experience to bring fresh insights on the writing process. Teachers look forward to her training sessions because of the many practical ideas they take away for their own classrooms. Her workshops involve teachers and administrators in writing, revising, publishing, and presenting. Melissa prepares teachers for state writing assessment, the daily writing workshop, and grade-appropriate target skills. Schools trained by Melissa are enjoying higher test scores and better team planning and organization. She is a popular keynote and motivational speaker.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A "Must Have" for Teaching the Writing Process, October 18, 2000

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Dog Owner (Lake Mary, FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Writing Menu: Ensuring Success for Every Student (Paperback)

Ever bought a teacher resource with high hopes only to file it away on your shelf never to be used? Not this one. Melissa Forney's book "The Writing Menu: Ensuring Success for Every Student" is a "must have" for anyone who is involved in helping children learn how to write. I have used it to the point of it being dog earred. "The Writing Menu" is an excellent resource that takes a practical and straight-forward approach for teaching the writing process. The step-by-step lessons are presented in a logical and sequential way with many workable, classroom-tested suggestions and student pages. Since incorporating Mrs. Forney's ideas into my teaching, my students have shown marked improvement in their writing and are finally showing enthusiasm and confidence as they put their thoughts and ideas on paper. I strongly encourage anyone involved in teaching the writing process to purchase this book.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You can't teach writing well without this!, June 14, 2000

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Patricia Scott (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Writing Menu: Ensuring Success for Every Student (Paperback)

This book is the ONE book that every teacher needs in order to teach writing to reluctant writers and to 'emerging EA Poe' writers. It is easy to use--that is fundamental. Mrs. Forney has taken all of the work out of planning and organizing how and what to teach. It is is this resource that keeps one focused and on track to lead student's to excellence in writing.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Writing Menu Serves Up A Winner!, June 24, 2000

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Teni Tillery (Lake Charles, Louisiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Writing Menu: Ensuring Success for Every Student (Paperback)

This book should be in the hand of every teacher everywhere. Melissa Forney whets the appetite and then serves up a satisfying feast of ideas, techniques, and instructions for developing young writers. Easy to read, simple to implement, "The Writing Menu: Ensuring Success for Every Student" is more than theory. It is a book you can sink your teeth into and come away satisfied. The Writing Menu provides practical applications with an understanding of the reality that no two children are alike. As children vary, so should teaching style and method to insure each is properly nourished in the fundamentals. Melissa Forney provides a full course, from appetizers to desserts. Bon a' petite