Designing Writing Assignments - Softcover

Traci Gardner (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814110851 ISBN 13: 9780814110850

Publisher: NCTE: National Council of Teachers of English, 2008

Synopsis

Traci Gardner offers practical tips, starting points, and a companion website to help secondary and college teachers design effective writing assignments.

Effective student writing begins with well-designed classroom assignments. In Designing Writing Assignments, veteran educator Traci Gardner offers practical ways for teachers to develop assignments that will allow students to express their creativity and grow as writers and thinkers while still addressing the many demands of resource-stretched classrooms. She explores how to balance pedagogical and curricular goals with the needs of multiple learners while managing everyday challenges such as mandates, testing, and the paper load. Gardner uses her classroom experience to provide ideas on how to effectively define a writing task, explore the expectations for a composition activity, and assemble the supporting materials that students need to do their best work. This book includes dozens of starting points that teachers can customize and further develop for the students in their own classrooms.

Edition details

• Publisher: NCTE: National Council of Teachers of English
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814110851
• ISBN 13: 9780814110850
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 109