A Fresh Look at Writing

by Donald H. Graves

In an era when teachers struggle for quality time with their students, Donald Graves introduces a text that creates lifetime writers as well as responsible learners--a text that focuses on teaching that lasts.

A Fresh Look at Writing is Graves's most comprehensive book yet. In it, he expands on many of his earlier approaches, examining portfolios, record keeping, methods for teaching conventions, spelling, and a rich range of genre...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0435088246
• ISBN13: 9780435088248
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.5" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 15 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 10

Customer Reviews

A fresh perspective

A Fresh Look at Writing is an informative and thoroughly useful guide at how teachers can implement worthy strategies in the classroom in order to help children strenghthen their writing skills. Graves explains how strategies such as the author's chair and portfolios can help children practice and take pride in their writing. This book focuses on kinder through sixth grade, but its methods can be modified to fit any grade level.

Life Change for Resistent Writing Teachers

This book truly gives one a "fresh look" at what they believe writing is about. Don begins the book by having the reader reflect on his own life to recognize why he teaches the way he does. It is easy to understand after the first two actions in his book why teaching writing seems so difficult. I found it most beneficial to read over a period of time so I could implement the actions he writes about. This book totally changed my attitude as a writing teacher. Now, instead of feeling frustrated about writing, Don has helped me find the writer within myself which is helping me become a great writing teacher.