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Coaching Writing in Content Areas Write-For-Insight Strategies, Grades 6-12

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ISBN-10: 0132690047

ISBN-13: 9780132690041

Edition: 2nd 2012 (Revised)

Authors: William Strong

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List price: $74.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 6/8/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 7.05" wide x 9.06" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

William Strong directs the Utah Writing Project at Utah State University, where he teaches courses in writing, English education, and content-area literacy. Besides authoring many articles and teaching resources on sentence combining and writing, he is the consulting author in composition for Writer's Choice (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2001) and series consultant for English Matters! (Grolier, 2000).

About the Author
Preface
Foreword
Writing from the Inside Out
Remembered Writing
Narration as Knowledge
Prompting Narrative
Literacy Autobiographies
Reflecting on Narrative
Content Area Examples
Narrative Insights
Write-for-Insight Activity
Challenging the Hidden Curriculum
Teacher as Writer
Resistance to Writing
The Hidden Curriculum of Writing
Roots of the Hidden Curriculum
Writing without Grades
Note-Taking and Note-Making
Resisting the Hidden Curriculum
Making Learning Personal
Writing-to-Learn Samples
Thinking Outside the Box
Write-for-Insight Activity
Exploring Expressive Writing
Windows to the Heart
Opening Expressive Windows
What If …?
Three Words
Take a Stand
Letters
�You Are There� Scenes
Quotation Prompts
Guided Imagery
Dramatic Scenarios (Cases)
Role-Playing
Dialogue Writing
A Reader/Writer Dialogue
Write-for-Insight Activity
Tapping the Power of Metaphor
Valentine's Day
The Power of Metaphor
Exercising Metaphor
More about Metaphor
Using Semantic Charts
Using Pattern Poems
Metaphors in Prose
Metaphors of Teaching
Write-for-Insight Activity
Helping Basic Writers Succeed
Basics of Good Teaching
Wall Text Basics
Back to Human Basics
Developing Transcribing Skill
Using Content-Based Dictation
Summarizing and Paraphrasing
Teaching Basics Strategically
Sentence-Combining Basics
Workshop-Style Teaching
A Bridge to Literacy
Write-for-Insight Activity
Designing Assignments and Rubrics
Darth Vader in Action
Assignments by Design
Assignments to Motivate
Ten Design Principles
Context + RAFT = CRAFT
Case Study of an Assignment
Content Area Writing Tasks
Creating Propaganda
Ultimate Frisbee
�Healthy Choice� Meal Proposal
Website Design Proposal
Darth Vader Revisited
Write-for-Insight Activity
Managing the Writing Process
Coaching Writing
Visualizing the Writing Process
Understanding the Model
Guiding Cycle 1 Activities (Prewriting)
Guiding Cycle 2 Activities (Revising)
Prompting Self-Assessment
Strategy 1 (Reading Aloud)
Strategy 2 (Reading Imaginatively)
Strategy 3 (Rereading with Care)
Bumps in Process Teaching
Managing Collaborative Writing
Write-for-Insight Activity
Coaching and Judging Writing
Responding to Writing
Thinking About Assessment
Coaching versus Judging
Getting Ready to Coach
Principle 1 (Models)
Principle 2 (Rubrics)
Principle 3 (Response)
Up-Front Coaching
Coaching as Response
Audiotape Coaching
Getting Ready to Judge
Judging Portfolios
Coaching as a Lifetime Sport
Write-for-Insight Activity
Researching Outside the Box
A Research Story
Personalized Research
The Saturation Report
A Student Saturation Report
The I-Search Paper
Multigenre Research Project
Challenging Advanced Students
Traditional Guided Research
The Problem of Fakery
Write-for-Insight Activity
Writing in a Digital World
Cultural Divide
iPod Inspiration
WebQuest Nation
PowerPoint Pedagogy
A Gift of Glogs
Guerrilla Journalism
Classroom Demonstration
Blogging Basics
Exploratory First Steps
Write-for-Insight Activity
Epilogue: Revisiting Insight
Listening to Students
Coaching with Insight
Leveling with Students
The �Writing Next� Report
Listening to Research
Write-for-Insight Activity
Literacy Autobiography Case Study
Bob Tierney's Concept-Trigger Words
Macie Wolfe's Cubing Activity
Graphic Organizers
Content Area Writing Assignments
References
Index