Best Practices for Teaching Writing: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do

by Randi B. Sofman (Editor)

Discover how to create a reading/writing oasis, blend narrative and descriptive writing, help students compose persuasive cover letters, use "Five Circles/Five Paragraphs" and "Punny Valentines," and more!

Paperback

First published March 28, 2007

Reviews

[Andre Widiartanto · Rating 3 out of 5]

Menulis adalah sebuah metode (budaya) yang cukup "baru" bagi masyarakat Indonesia. Dahulu, menulis adalah salah satu senjata untuk melawan penjajahan. Dan baru belakangan, di era social media (plus blog, plus citizen journalism) menulis tampaknya kembali mulai digemari.

Saya berpikir sudah waktunya budaya menulis kembali ditanamkan dalam dunia pendidikan (formal). Bukan sekadar karena tuntutan akademik, namun benar-benar digunakan sebagai media untuk mengungkapkan (plus merekam, plus mempublikasikan) buah pikiran.

Buku ini cukup memberi gambaran bagaimana guru-guru di Amrik melakukan berbagai inovasi untuk mengajar (dan membudayakan) menulis sejak dini. Dan saya pikir sebagian besar dapat diimplementasikan, baik secara formal maupun non-formal.

[Lorraine · Rating 2 out of 5]

27 short essays by American teachers who have won an award for their teaching. The awards were not necessarily for teaching writing, but the teachers share a lesson idea or theory or story related to successful teaching in the area of writing (sometimes reading, too). Most of the stories are for K through gr 3 students. I was more interested in the high school stories of which there are fewer. It's a quick book to get through and offers some ideas, but it was not as instructive as I'd hoped.
The overall theme message from the teachers: MODEL what you want students to do.