Waubonsee Community College

Transforming writing instruction in the digital age, techniques for grades 5-12, Thomas DeVere Wolsey and Dana L. Grisham

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-230) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Transforming writing instruction in the digital age

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Thomas DeVere Wolsey and Dana L. Grisham

Teaching practices that work

techniques for grades 5-12

"An innovative, practical guide for middle and high school teachers, this book is packed with specific ways that technology can help serve the goals of effective writing instruction. It provides ready-to-implement strategies for teaching students to compose and edit written work electronically; conduct Internet inquiry; create blogs, websites, and podcasts; and use text messaging and Twitter productively. The book is grounded in state-of-the-art research on the writing process and the role of writing in content area learning. Teacher-friendly features include vivid classroom examples, differentiation tips, links to online resources, and reproducible worksheets and forms"--Provided by publisher

Getting started with tools and teaching. Resources: anytime, anywhere -- Management: computers in the classroom -- Management: the hardware -- Direct instruction -- A word about differentiation -- Writing and thinking. Embracing writing: knowledge-transforming writing -- Why writing is a process, and how technology can help -- Working with sources: keeping track of learning, and leaving a path for others to follow -- Working with sources: using style guides -- Writing to understand: it's all about the discipline. Discussion and writing -- Writing short pieces -- Short writing: electronic journals -- Blogs and classroom websites for writing -- Online literature discussion (threaded discussion) -- Vocabulary and writing -- Collaborative writing -- Are those kids texting again? -- Inquiry and long thinking meet the disciplines. FAQs about writing in the disciplines -- It's all the same, or maybe not? -- What was that essential question again? -- Learning because I'm writing: logs and journals -- Writing is (hard) cognitive work: Bloom's taxonomy matters -- Internet inquiry -- Prompts -- Prewriting: composing before writing with pen or keyboard -- Prewriting with graphic organizers -- Feedback, assessment, and technology -- What about literature and English language arts?. Short writing: summaries in response to reading -- The Zen of writing about literature -- Persuasion: in this essay, I'm going to convince you-- -- Prompts for writing: language arts -- Composing with multimedia. Visualize it! -- Audio podcasting: it's "ear-resistible" -- Wrapping it up. Advocacy for technology and new literacies -- High-stakes writing assessments -- Automated tools -- Publication