Teaching Writing: Strategies for Improving Literacy Across the Curriculum

by Diane Gess, Jessica Livingston

With this manual, updated for 2006, teachers can successfully integrate meaningful writing instruction that will broaden students' understanding, widen their range of writing products, and allow them to find their voices and writing styles. This book presents structures and strategies for teachers to use as students move through the process of writing, from planning to publishing. There are a variety of graphic organizers, note-taking devices, and writing strategies as learning tools for each academic subject. Vocabulary-enhancing lessons are also presented to support curriculum objectives. Teaching Writing has been organized to give teachers choices of strategies to incorporate into writing lessons or subjects that they teach. Whether your strategy is a discreet lesson, designed for the purpose of learning a skill, or a tool to help the student take notes, Teaching Writing presents valuable strategies that will make students better writers.

286 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006