Make Them Process It: Uncovering New Value in the Writer's Notebook

By Jeffery E. Frieden

Teaching writing and composition at the secondary level is hard. Getting students to develop writing skills in context and that build on one another is complicated. After that, students need to be able to remember and retrieve all that learning. There are plenty of resources out there that can help struggling teachers manage these complex challenges. Make Them Process It: Uncovering New Value in the Writer's Notebook can help writing teachers streamline all the necessary concepts and skills they teach throughout the school year into one easy-to-manage instructional tool: The Writer's Notebook.Founded on the Writer's Notebook practice introduced in Kelly Gallagher's Teaching Adolescent Writers , and drawing on a decade of teaching experience, Jeffery E. Frieden presents a convenient way to set up and run the Writer's Notebook in the secondary classroom. Included are tips for: prompting student writing, coaching students to generate their own topics, and creating ways to keep writing fresh through the whole school year. More than just providing a teacher's guide for prompting students to fill a notebook with first draft writing, Jeffery take teachers through a step-by-step guide that helps students to: make a plan for revision, compose a second draft, host a conversation about their improvements, add style to their second draft through grammar instruction, and reflect on their revisions through metacognition. Out of his failures and successes over the past 13 years, Jeffery has put together a straightforward, "no nonsense" approach to teaching writing with The Writer's Notebook.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 197339071X
• ISBN13: 9781973390718
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.3" x 5.5"