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Writing Without Boundaries: What's Possible When Students Combine Genres
In Writing Without Boundaries you'll find out how to unlock this potential in all your students as they discover what it means to write with purpose.
Writing Without Boundaries gives you everything you need to get started teaching multigenre writing. Suzette Youngs and Diane Barone demonstrate why it works, providing the rationale, the research, and examples of completed student work. Then they take you inside classrooms to show how they and other teachers implement multimodal papers and how these lessons in topic selection, organization, audience, planning, and presentation will forever change how primary and intermediate students approach writing. You'll discover how the writing workshop model can help you coordinate the efforts of your whole class even while you support each student in selecting from more than 60 genres to communicate their interests.
Writing Without Boundaries gives you everything you need to get started teaching multigenre writing. Suzette Youngs and Diane Barone demonstrate why it works, providing the rationale, the research, and examples of completed student work. Then they take you inside classrooms to show how they and other teachers implement multimodal papers and how these lessons in topic selection, organization, audience, planning, and presentation will forever change how primary and intermediate students approach writing. You'll discover how the writing workshop model can help you coordinate the efforts of your whole class even while you support each student in selecting from more than 60 genres to communicate their interests.
- GenresProfessional Development
144 pages, Paperback
First published March 13, 2007
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January 8, 2015
Youngs and Barone have presented a fairly strong how-to manual for elementary school teachers to use multi-genre writing in their reading workshop and writing workshop classrooms. Although the first few chapters seemed a little disorganized, because they presented an overview of how reading/writing workshop work, it made sense when I understood that the authors were coming from that perspective: elementary "workshop" classrooms. It was good to see inside that environment, especially the extreme scaffolding they use to get the students to understand genre study as a means of critical reading, but I am not certain (yet) how I would modify that for my high school classrooms with only 50 minutes of instructional time.
By now, I have read quite a few books and articles about MGRP, so the basics this book shared were not new information. Additionally, the copyright is 2007, so the entire chapter about standards and assessments could be revised to better reflect the Common Core Standards that so many states are currently wrangling with. However, there were some good tips sprinkled throughout that I could apply to a middle or high school classroom, especially with regard to conferencing, evaluation, classroom management, and teacher reflection. Is it enough for a HS (or even a MS) teacher to buy this book full price? Probably not.
By now, I have read quite a few books and articles about MGRP, so the basics this book shared were not new information. Additionally, the copyright is 2007, so the entire chapter about standards and assessments could be revised to better reflect the Common Core Standards that so many states are currently wrangling with. However, there were some good tips sprinkled throughout that I could apply to a middle or high school classroom, especially with regard to conferencing, evaluation, classroom management, and teacher reflection. Is it enough for a HS (or even a MS) teacher to buy this book full price? Probably not.
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