 Designing Writing Assignments
Author(s): Traci
Gardner
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.
A companion website also offers readers resources such
as
- complete lesson plans available on www.readwritethink.org
- links to relevant NCTE standards, position statements, and
guidelines
- an online bibliography that includes links to related NCTE
journal articles
- links to online lesson plans, teaching resource collections,
and education policy issues
109 pp. 2008. Grades 9–College. ISBN
978-0-8141-1085-0.
No. 10850 $23.95 member/$31.95
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