Writing to Teach; Writing to Learn in Secondary Schools

by Susan M. Leist, Pamila Marchewka-Cornwell

How can educators demonstrate that writing is essential both in and out of the classroom? How can they help their students build a strong writing foundation and grow as writers? Writing to Teach; Writing to Learn in Secondary Schools is a comprehensive guide for high school teachers who want to use writing as a teaching tool in any discipline. It provides instructional materials for generating and structuring writing, guidance for developing writing assignments and for evaluating writing, and sample syllabi and assignments. This user-friendly and hands-on book enables teachers in all disciplines to develop the techniques and methods necessary for effectively using writing as a teaching tool.

144 pages, Paperback

First published July 28, 2006

Reviews

[Morgan Kail-Ackerman · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had very high hopes for this guide. Unforunately, it was more an index of other writing assignments than it was teaching and describing good teaching strategies. I was looking for a place to discuss how to teach writing, and instead just got 130 pages of example paper prompts and checklists and rubrics. It was a little helpful, just not what I anticipated. It was also poorly published, repeating sections and words and having too many spaces at certain points. For a book that discusses the importance of writing and polishing, they didn't do a good job on including that in their own book.