Leif Fearn

Nancy Farnan

Publisher description: This book provides detailed instruction on teaching writing within language arts programs in K-8 classrooms. All components of learning to write are explicitly taught, with emphasis given to interactions of writing with reading, spelling, vocabulary instruction, and other language arts. A special feature is the inclusion of sustatined instructional strategies that simulate practice.

Teaching Writing and the Language Arts

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A New And Innovative Approach To Teaching The Mechanics Of Writing -- Describes clearly each capitalization and punctuation convention, clarifying for -- Includes student writing samples demonstrating the convention used properly. -- Offers writing activities that feature the convention, giving student writers theThe evidence associated with writing performance across the United States shows a lack of conventional control in writing. The instructional reaction to the evidence has always been to ignore it or to worksheet it to death. This book provides a much-needed third alternative that features serious attention to the writer's craft in a thoughtful, constructive, and authentic manner.This book rests on the proposition that attention to capitalization and punctuation has failed to enhance young writers performances because the attention has not occurred in the context of the writers own writing. Therefore, this book is not only about writing conventions, it is also about teaching and learning in the context of young writers own writing.

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