Teaching middle school writers
Subtitle: what every English teacher needs to know
By: Laura Robb ; foreword by Jim Burke
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780325026572
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Narrowing the gulf between writing for school and writing for self; title: Improving students' creative and analytic writing; title: Using mentor texts to arrive at compelling reasons to write; title: Making powerful writing happen day to day: routines that work; title: Making powerful writing happen day to day: lessons that work; title: Setting criteria, revising, and editing; title: Conferring: answering middle schoolers' need to collaborate; title: Writing conferences in action; title: Analytical exchanges on line: blogs and beyond; title: Conclusion: make it your own.