But How Do You Teach Writing?: A Simple Guide for All Teachers

by Barry Lane

Overview

Packed with practical ideas teachers and students can try instantly and experience immediate success with writing. The book is divided into three parts: Out of the Gate contains easy ideas to help you get started, More Reasons to Write shows you how to teach across genre, both fiction and nonfiction writing, and Refining Writing addresses everything you need to know about revision, grammar, punctuation, and assessment. In every chapter you'll find two running features: 1) “Try This”, ready-to-use lessons for you and your students; and 2) “Yeah But” where Barry answers the real questions and concerns he's collected from teachers around the country.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545194228
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	05/01/2008
Sold by:	Scholastic, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	900,490
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Barry Lane has taught writing at the University of New Hampshire, and worked as a writer in residence in hundreds of elementary and secondary school classrooms throughout the country. Barry is nationally known for his dynamic, hands-on workshops on writing and revision and his popular writing books, After "The End" (Heinemann), Discovering the Writer Within, Writing as a Road to Self Discovery (Writer's Digest Books), The Portfolio Sourcebook (Vermont Portfolio Institute), and his tape of original fairy tale songs, Lane's Recycled Fairy Tales (New World Records).