A New Look at the Interactive Writing Classroom: Methods, Strategies, and Activities to Engage Students

Stephen Sharp

doi:10.5771/9781610484190

Summary

Teaching students how to write more effectively is a goal that English teachers of all levels share. How can you motivate your students to produce their best writing, think critically, and participate more actively in class? How can you conduct workshops in your classroom that create a more dynamic, interactive, student-centered environment? This practical, comprehensive guide to teaching writing offers English teachers a variety of new, classroom-tested instructional activities, workshops, lesson plans, journal entries, teaching strategies, and creative assignments to use in their classrooms, including modified mini-lessons and group discussions that engage students and stimulate critical thinking. Emphasizing the proven benefits of cooperative learning, the book includes step-by-step instructions for special writing workshops on invention strategies, critical reading, thesis statements, draft feedback, narrative writing, debates, outlining, introductions, proofreading and editing, and much more. Topics also include how to coach students, manage problematic students, attack plagiarism, and deal with student evaluations.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2011
Copyright Year: 2011
ISBN-Print: 978-1-61048-417-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-61048-419-0
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 212
Product Type: Monograph

1. CONTENTS No access
2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
3. INTRODUCTION No access
Chapter 01. STUDENT INTRODUCTIONS: BUILDING A COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS No access Pages 1 - 6
Chapter 02. HOW CAN YOU DEAL EFFECTIVELY WITH SUCH A DIVERSE GROUP OF STUDENTS? No access Pages 7 - 28
Chapter 03. CHANGING YOUR STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARD WRITING AND READING No access Pages 29 - 40
Chapter 04. HOUSTON, WE HAVE A READING PROBLEM No access Pages 41 - 50
Chapter 05. USING POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT TO MOTIVATE YOUR STUDENTS No access Pages 51 - 58
Chapter 06. LESSONS FROM THE PRACTICE FIELDS No access Pages 59 - 70
Chapter 07. BECOMING MORE AUTHENTIC IN THE CLASSROOM No access Pages 71 - 74
Chapter 08. SHOULD YOU REALLY TEACH WRITING AS A PROCESS? No access Pages 75 - 82
Chapter 09. HEY DUDE, WHY CAN’T YOU FOLLOW DIRECTIONS? No access Pages 83 - 90
Chapter 10. MAKING WRITING MORE FUN FOR YOUR STUDENTS No access Pages 91 - 98
Chapter 11. GETTING YOUR STUDENTS TO MASTER THE NARRATIVE No access Pages 99 - 110
Chapter 12. IMPROVING PEER FEEDBACK: MAKING STUDENTS MORE ACCOUNTABLE No access Pages 111 - 114
Chapter 13. ENSURING SUCCESSFUL WORKSHOPS IN YOUR CLASS No access Pages 115 - 126
Chapter 14. WORKSHOPS THAT REALLY WORK: MY FIVE FAVORITE WORKSHOPS No access Pages 127 - 132
Chapter 15. WORKSHOPS TO HELP YOUR STUDENTS WRITE MORE EFFECTIVELY No access Pages 133 - 146
Chapter 16. HOW TO MAKE YOUR STUDENTS BETTER EDITORS AND PROOFREADERS No access Pages 147 - 154
Chapter 17. THE TEXTBOOK CAN BECOME YOUR STUDENTS’ FRIEND No access Pages 155 - 160
Chapter 18. USING MODIFIED MINI-LESSONS TO CONVEY INFORMATION EFFECTIVELY No access Pages 161 - 172
Chapter 19. GROUP DISCUSSIONS DON’T HAVE TO CRASH AND BURN No access Pages 173 - 180
Chapter 20. DEBATES MOTIVATE YOUR STUDENTS TO WRITE RESEARCH PAPERS No access Pages 181 - 194
Chapter 21. ATTACKING PLAGIARISM IN YOUR CLASSROOM No access Pages 195 - 204
Chapter 22. STUDENT EVALUATIONS: HAS TEACHING BECOME A POPULARITY CONTEST? No access Pages 205 - 210
ABOUT THE AUTHOR No access Pages 211 - 212