A Fresh Look at Writing

In association with Amazon.com

All ProductsApparelAutomotiveBabyBeautyBooksClassical MusicDVDDigital MusicElectronicsGourmet FoodHealth & Personal CareJewelryKitchen & HousewaresMagazinesMiscellaneousMusicMusic TracksMusical InstrumentsOffice ProductsOutdoor LivingPC HardwarePet SuppliesPhotoRestaurantsSoftwareSporting GoodsTools & HardwareToysVHSVideo (DVD & VHS)Video GamesWirelessWireless Accessories

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 372.623044
EAN: 9780435088248
ISBN: 0435088246
Label: Heinemann
Manufacturer: Heinemann
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: October 24, 1994
Publisher: Heinemann
Studio: Heinemann

---

Related Items:

• Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement
• The Art of Teaching Writing
• A Writer's Notebook: Unlocking the Writer Within You
• Teaching Reading Sourcebook 2nd Edition
• About Teaching Mathematics: A K-8 Resource, 3rd Edition
• see more

Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display

---

Editorial Review:

Product Description:

An excellent, comprehensive look at writing and how to teach it so that students will want to write forever.
- Writing Teacher

In an era when teachers struggle for quality time with their students, Donald Graves introduces a text that creates lifetime writers as well as responsible learners--a text that focuses on teaching that lasts.



A Fresh Look at Writing is Graves's most comprehensive book yet. In it, he expands on many of his earlier approaches, examining portfolios, record keeping, methods for teaching conventions, spelling, and a rich range of genre including fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. He demonstrates how to bring writing into your own life and experience the joys of the craft along with the students.



"Actions," glossed objectives appearing throughout the book, provide new ways to understand yourself and reach your students. With them, Graves helps you profit from your own history as learner, listen to children more effectively, discover their potential, yet expect more from them.



A Fresh Look at Writing is a true resource for professionals who want the latest ideas on the teaching of writing, as well as for preservice teachers about to step into the classroom for the first time.



The accompanying Professional's Guide assists those who want to build a writing or language arts course around the text. It features a detailed, week-by-week description of fourteen sessions, including guidelines for background preparation in writing; reading and working with children; classroom demonstration; and journal reflection. In addition, the guide shows how A Fresh Look at Writing can be used as a supplement to reading courses, research studies, summer courses, and workshops.



To learn more about Donald Graves, visit www.donaldgraves.org.




Rating: - A fresh perspective
A Fresh Look at Writing is an informative and thoroughly useful guide at how teachers can implement worthy strategies in the classroom in order to help children strenghthen their writing skills. Graves explains how strategies such as the author's chair and portfolios can help children practice and take pride in their writing. This book focuses on kinder through sixth grade, but its methods can be modified to fit any grade level.

---

Rating: - Life Change for Resistent Writing Teachers
This book truly gives one a "fresh look" at what they believe writing is about. Don begins the book by having the reader reflect on his own life to recognize why he teaches the way he does. It is easy to understand after the first two actions in his book why teaching writing seems so difficult. I found it most beneficial to read over a period of time so I could implement the actions he writes about. This book totally changed my attitude as a writing teacher. Now, instead of feeling frustrated ... Read More

---