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Teaching idea development : a standards-based critical-thinking approach to writing / Sharon Crawford Hatton, Pam Leneave Ladd.
Van Pelt Library LB1590.3 .H39 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hatton, Sharon Crawford.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Critical thinking--Study and teaching--United States.
- Critical thinking.
- English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching--United States.
- English language.
- English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching.
- English language--Study and teaching--Standards.
- English language--Study and teaching.
- Critical thinking--Study and teaching.
- United States.
- English language--Study and teaching--Standards--United States.
- Interdisciplinary approach in education--United States.
- Interdisciplinary approach in education.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 121 pages ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Idea development is a concrete skill that can be taught in a systematic way. This step-by-step guide provides educators in all content areas with the tools they need to help students think more critically and write with more fully developed ideas. Hatton and Ladd, instructors with the esteemed Kentucky Writing Program, offer the reading-writing-thinking sequences that successful writers use when developing ideas. This teacher resource is chock-full of ideas teachers in intermediate, middle, or secondary schools can implement immediately. Most important, the strategies and tactics offered are designed to work in the current highly rigorous, standards-based school environment, providing results that are both successful and measurable.
- Contents:
- Part I Implementing Idea Development in the Classroom 1
- 1. Promoting Effective Writing 3
- 2. Identifying and Solving Common Idea Development Problems 16
- Avoiding Common Problems in Idea Development 17
- Ineffective Support Strategies 21
- Problems in Thinking 22
- Problems in Language 28
- Part II Strategies for Teaching Idea Development 31
- 3. Purposeful Details 33
- 4. Description 45
- Subjective and Practical or Technical Description 49
- 5. Comparison and Contrast 57
- 6. Cause and Effect 66
- 7. Dialogue 76
- 8. Anecdotes 90
- Other Suggestions for Crafting Anecdotes 95
- 9. Vignettes 100
- 10. Analysis 109.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 121).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0761977597
- OCLC:
- 45830113
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