Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing
Please join us in congratulating Penny Kittle for her 2009 NCTE Britton Award forWrite Beside Them! This book is about teaching writing and the gritty particulars of teaching adolescents. But it is also the planning, the thinking, the writing, the journey: all I've been putting into my teaching for the last two decades. This is the book I wanted when I was first given ninth graders and a list of novels to teach. This is a book of vision and hope and joy, but it is also a book of genre units...
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What makes the single biggest difference to student writers? When the invisible machinery of your writing processes is made visible to them. Write Beside Them shows you how to do it. It s the comprehensive book and DVD that English/language arts teachers need to ensure that teens improve their writing. Across genres, Penny Kittle presents a flexible framework for instruction, the theory and experience to back it up, and detailed teaching information to help you implement it right away. Each section of Write Beside Them describes a specific element of Kittle s workshop: Daily writing practice: writer s notebooks and quick writes Instructional frameworks: minilessons, organization, conferring, and sharing drafts Genre work: narrative, persuasion, and writing in multiple genres Skills work: grammar, punctuation, and style Assessment: evaluation, feedback, portfolios, and grading. All along the way, Kittle demonstrates minilessons that respond to students immediate needs, and her Student Focus sections profile and spotlight how individual writers grew and changed over the course of her workshop. In addition, Write Beside Them provides a study guide, reproducibles, writing samples from Penny and her students, suggestions for nurturing your own writing life, and a helpful FAQ. Best of all, the accompanying DVD takes you right inside Penny s classroom. Its video clips explicitly model how to make the process of writing accessible to all kids. Penny Kittle s active coaching and can-do attitude alone will energize your teaching and inspire you to write with your students. But her strategies, expert advice, and compelling in-class video footage will help you turn inspiration into great teaching. Read Write Beside Them and discover that the most important influence for all young writers is their teacher.
Pt. 1 Foundations1 It's a Wonderful Life 22 This I Believe 63 How Writing Units Work Together: A Scaffold of Writing Instruction 11Student Focus: Josh 17Pt. 2 Collecting Thinking4 The Writer's Notebook 225 Quick Writes 29Pt. 3 Writer's Workshop6 The Opportunities in a Writer's Workshop 62Pt. 4 Thinking Through Genre7 The Art of Story 1028 The Art of Persuasion 1309 Seeking Balance: Writing About Literature and Writing About Life 15110 Finding Form for Ideas: Blending Genres 159Pt. 5 Mechanics11 Grammar, Punctuation, and What Keeps Me Up at Night 190Pt. 6 Assessment12 Leading Students to Reflection and Independence 20813 In the End, What Writing Is For ... 234Works Cited and Consulted 237Index 241
