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The Middle School Writing Toolkit
The Middle School Writing Toolkit
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BOOK DETAILS

  • Paperback
  • 9780929895758
  • Maupin House

Tim gives an overview of the book:

Designed specifically for all middle-school teachers, The Middle School Writing Toolkit has everything needed to get your writer's workshop up and running―whether you're a language arts teacher looking for new writing workshop ideas or a subject-area teacher who wants to improve the quality of student papers. The Middle School Writing Toolkit addresses the five major writing genres that middle-school students are expected to master―reports, persuasive essays, how-to (procedural) essays, narratives, and literary responses―and provides mini-lessons and tasks to start English teachers well on their way to creating a successful writing program in the classroom. Teachers in other subjects will find plenty of writing tasks on research, informational reports, biographies, and more to work into their daily curriculum, allowing for both subject exploration and writing...
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Designed specifically for all middle-school teachers, The Middle School Writing Toolkit has everything needed to get your writer's workshop up and running―whether you're a language arts teacher looking for new writing workshop ideas or a subject-area teacher who wants to improve the quality of student papers.

The Middle School Writing Toolkit addresses the five major writing genres that middle-school students are expected to master―reports, persuasive essays, how-to (procedural) essays, narratives, and literary responses―and provides mini-lessons and tasks to start English teachers well on their way to creating a successful writing program in the classroom.

Teachers in other subjects will find plenty of writing tasks on research, informational reports, biographies, and more to work into their daily curriculum, allowing for both subject exploration and writing mastery.

Fifty-seven writing mini-lessons and more than 200 differentiated workstation tasks, as well as time-saving forms, charts, and rubrics, make this a complete and useful resource for any middle-school classroom.

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Teachers will find this a useful resource, especially teachers outside language arts, challenged by organizing writing instruction in their classrooms. While the target audience for the toolkit is middle school content teachers, the workshop design assists teachers at any grade level interested in getting more writing and writing to learn strategies into their curriculum. The tools are here to begin and sustain writing instruction in any classroom, as all teachers become teachers of writing.

Reviewed by Roberta J. Herter, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Education, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA.

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About Tim

I'm a husband and father of two beautiful girls. I am also owned by a couple of border collie mixes. I was born and raised in New York, and I currently teach English. My writing career began by writing education titles, but I have branched out into children's non-fiction and...

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Published Reviews

Feb.21.2008

Clifford's methodical approach to skill-based writing instruction gives teachers a way to organize their classrooms for writers' workshop. The workstation and mini-lessons provide practice for adolescent...