Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product - Softcover

Tompkins, Gail E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131121871 ISBN 13: 9780131121874

Publisher: Pearson, 2003

Synopsis

For courses in which the focus is on language arts/writing or the teaching of writing.

Accessible and reader-friendly, this is the definitive text on teaching writing to children in grades K-8, the only title on the market to thoroughly address both the process and the product of writing. The author covers strategies for teaching prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing through writing workshop, literature focus units, and thematic units; techniques for helping children develop ideas, organize writing, choose vocabulary, apply stylistic devices, and correct mechanical errors; and five levels of scaffolded composition instruction: modeled, shared, interactive, guided, and independent writing. Numerous authentic children's writing samples are interspersed throughout the material, along with the author's well-respected minilessons and thoughtful discussion of performance-based tools for assessment.

About this title

About the Author

Gail E. Tompkins is Professor Emerita at California State Unversity, Fresno, and she continues to direct the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project.  She regularly works with teachers in their kindergarten through eighth-grade classrooms and leads staff development programs on reading, language arts, and writing.  In 1998 Dr. Tompkins was inducted into the California Reading Association's Reading Hall of Fame in recognition of her publication and other accomplishments in the field of reading, and recently she was awarded the prestigious Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching at California's State University, Fresno.

From the Back Cover

Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product continues to be the definitive book on how to teach writing in grades K-8, as it is the only text with comprehensive coverage of both process and product.

• NEW! Teacher's Notes: Supporting Struggling Writers are special features that help teachers adapt chapter content specifically for struggling students.
• NEW! Teacher's Notes: Assisting English Language Learners point out the best ways for teachers to support these student writers.
• Vignettes open every chapter to illustrate how real teachers have used the chapter content in their elementary classrooms.
• Minilessons in every chapter model skills and strategies instruction for use in the classroom.
• NEW! Instructional Previews help ground readers in chapter content, best addressing the question of what to teach and when.
• Step-by-Step features clearly illustrate instructional procedures.
• Rubrics throughout chapters help readers address and clarify assessment issues.
• NEW! A Descriptive Writing chapter addresses descriptive writing as a specific genre as well as an essential component of narrative writing, poetic writing, and other genres.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131121871
• ISBN 13: 9780131121874
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 512