Better Answers: Written Performance That Looks Good and Sounds Smart [With CDROM]

by Ardith Davis Cole

Student's writing skills are improving tremendously... Last year's fourth-graders started using the sandwich method mid-year and almost all of them scored in the highest possible category when they took the state's standardized English-language arts test just a few months later. Wells Central Schools, Wells Central is just one of numerous schools that attribute their success to Ardith Davis Cole's Better Answers process. Since 2002, her book Better...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571107487
• ISBN13: 9781571107480
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.0" x 9.9"

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Better Answers: Written Performance that Looks and Sounds Smart

I love the book and have used the strategy in my classroom. It really works.

How to train students K-12 to yield improved and improving written responses

A strongly recommended addition to professional and academic library reference collections, Educational Resources & Instruction reference collections, Better Answers: Written Performance That Looks Good And Sounds Smart by academician, classroom instructor, and literacy specialist Ardith Davis Cole offers school teachers and homeschooling parents with an easy-to-implement, step-by-step protocol for helping students focus upon acquiring the basic literacy skills to meet state standards in the English language arts of writing. Each of the five progressive steps (Restate the Questions; Construct a Gist Answer; Use Details to Support Your Answer; Stay on the Topic; Use Proper Conventions) to teaching writing are laid out in individual chapters. Enhanced with six informative and utilitarian appendices that include samples of student responses, lessons plans, spreadsheets, resources, and more, Better Answers will clearly demonstrate how to train students K-12 to yield improved and improving written responses across the entire school curriculum -- and have continuing application in life beyond the academic classroom.