Using the workshop approach in the high school English classroom : modeling effective writing, reading, and thinking strategies for student success / Cynthia D. Urbanski ; cover designer, Michael Dubowe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Urbanski, Cynthia D., author.

Contributor:

Dubowe, Michael, cover designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching (Secondary).

English language.

Language arts (Secondary).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Take a peek into an effective workshop-based classroom and discover how you can enhance adolescents' technical and creative abilities in reading, writing, and thinking.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Chapter 1 - Running and Writing""; ""The Workshop Culture: A Study of Coaching""; ""Conclusions and Mission""; ""Chapter 2 - Who Writes the Rule Book Anyway? Accountability, Tests, and the History of Rhetoric""; ""A Bit of History""; ""And What about the Other Parts of My Curriculum?""; ""Testing and Accountability""; ""Conclusions""; ""Suggested Reading""; ""Chapter 3 - Coaching and Teaching by Doing: Modeling Thinking, Writing, and Reading""; ""A Horror Story in Two Scenes""

""Scene I: Sunday Night Back in the Dark Ages""""Scene II: Sunday Night One Week Later""; ""Modeling: A Simple Concept with Huge Benefits""; ""Modeling Gives us Fresh Experiences to Draw from""; ""Modeling can Transform our Classrooms""; ""Modeling Fosters Authentic Learning""; ""Modeling Will Supercharge our Planning Time""; ""Modeling in Our Classrooms: What Do We Do?""; ""Modeling Concepts for Writing""; ""A Lesson in Modeling Writing""; ""Modeling Concepts for Reading""; ""A Lesson in Modeling Close Reading and Analysis""; ""Conclusions: Pulling it all Together and Coming Full Circle""

""Chapter 4 - Warming up the Writing Muscles: Two Tools for Invention""""Free Writing""; ""What is Free Writing . . . Really?""; ""Why Does Free Writing Work?""; ""Application: Helping Our Students Discover the Magic""; ""A Lesson in Free Writing""; ""The Last Word on Free Writing""; ""Daybooks: A Place to Store Free Writing and Thinking""; ""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 5 - The Practice Field: Building Strength and Confidence in Writing and Literary Analysis""; ""Types of Practice""; ""Reader Response and Invention""; ""In-Class Drafting and Revision""

""Types and Progression of Assignments as Practice""""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 6 - Race Day: Evaluation and the Idea of Grammar""; ""Grammar in Context""; ""The Bottom Line on Grammar""; ""A Grammar Lesson""; ""A Word of Caution""; ""For Further Ideas . . .""; ""A Word About Standards""; ""Watching the Race: Evaluating Student Writing""; ""Grading Practice Writing without Eradicating its Purpose""; ""Grading Response Journals or Daybooks""; ""Grading Published Pieces""; ""Portfolios: Looking at the Whole Season and Student Growth over Time""; ""Conclusions""; ""Suggested Reading""

""Chapter 7 - Responding as a Spectator: The Writing Conference""""Why Conference Anyway?""; ""A Trek through a Conference Log""; ""Writing Conventions/Skills in Context""; ""A 50-Minute Tutoring Session Translated into a 90-Minute Class""; ""Basic Behavior in the Writing Conference""; ""A Close-up Look at a Conference""; ""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 8 - Becoming Independent: Writing and Literature Groups""; ""A Scenario: Student Writing as Class Literature""; ""Student Response to Groups""; ""How to Make Groups Work""; ""Model Functional Groups""; ""Provide Structure and Incentive""

""Help Students Find Their Own Structure""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781483361871

148336187X

9781483364049

1483364046

OCLC:

923707489