This volume offers a variety of ways to stimulate student writing: through the use of artifacts, through exploration of the students' own experiences, memories, and aspirations, and through real-world writing tasks. The final section suggests ideas for engaging writers in peer editing, self-editing, and revision to turn their drafts into finished pieces. Throughout the book the emphasis is on the classroom as a writing community and the student as an increasingly skilled and confident writer.
Standards Consensus Series. 114 pp. 1996. Grades 6–8. ISBN 0-8141-5287-2.
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