Writing for Understanding

by Joey Hawkins

How can we help students - all students - write effectively?

Writing for Understanding provides a practical, proven approach to teaching writing that targets insufficient student understanding of content information and of the writer's craft as key reasons for poor quality student writing. Through Writing for Understanding, teachers learn to help students:

1) Build and process working content knowledge and understanding of the writer's craft
2) Identify a central idea for their writing, then focus it through a question, and
3) Transfer their developing writing abilities independently to new situations.

With models of effective teaching, samples of student writing, and practical tools for classroom use, Writing for Understanding offers an inspiring and useful tool for developing effective, independent student writers.

Genres: Professional Development, Education

224 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2008

Reviews

[Daleine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Writing for Understanding is a book which shows ways to teach writing to students in Elementary and high school in a way that helps students to understand how to write and to stay focused. This book used a new process called painted writings to help students organize their writing. I found a lot of great ideas in the book

[Corine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Effective best practice that supports the CCSS

Teaching philosophy and methods to improve teacher practice in an easy to read package. Thematic across content area approach to teaching writing.

[Jeff · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great guide to expanding the way we get kids to write by including more time front loading the ideas that they will write about. An important addition to any teachers library.