50 WRITING LESSONS

Аннотация

Teaching writing seems simple enough: we need to help our students improve. Being responsible for their writing skills, however, can seem overwhelming. Writing is nothing if not complex, student problems are varied, and often we can only guess at what ground they have already covered in school. Finally, across the nation, students are taking more standardized tests that include writing. As they sit in our classrooms, we feel more keenly than ever that they need to make discernible progress. The intention of this book is to provide you with assignments that can help you keep your students writing frequently, purposefully, and happily. To become flexible, inventive writers, students need the spice of life: a variety of assignments that build all kinds of skills, work against mechanical writing, and give them a range of compositional experiences. This book exposes students to different genres of creative, critical, and personal writing.