Authors: Karen Donohue, Nanda N. Reddy
ISBN-13: 9781412924498, ISBN-10: 1412924499
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Corwin Press
Date Published: December 2005
Edition: New Edition
Nanda Reddy earned her MEd from the University of Florida in 1999 and subsequently worked as a fourth grade teacher in Marion County, Florida. At her school, she served as a team leader and worked to develop a writing curriculum to accommodate the pressures of standardized tests and student writing needs. Nanda taught the curriculum at the school, and for that, she was honored as Rookie Teacher of the Year. She has workshopped this material under the titles "Teaching Reluctant Writers" and "Teaching Kids to Write" in both Florida and Reno, Nevada, where she now resides. Nanda, a member of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), currently works full time raising her family and writing fiction. She hopes to continue conducting writing workshops for teachers.
Lesson plans linked to national standards help students develop lifelong writing skills and confidence as writers while preparing them for standardized writing tests.
1 | No-brainers and bosses : laying the foundation | 1 |
2 | Pickle sandwiches and TCUPSS : beginning expository writing | 14 |
3 | Rainbow words and awe-inspiring adjectives : enhancing expository | 26 |
4 | It all started with a tier cake : directing narrative structure | 46 |
5 | Ask for likely similes and vivacious verbs : enhancing narratives | 56 |
6 | Dressing things up : independent writing | 72 |
7 | The improvement process : diagnosing and fixing problems | 97 |
8 | Timers and deadlines : preparing for a test | 129 |
9 | Beyond tests and essays : applying expository writing knowledge | 141 |
10 | Beyond tests and stories : applying narrative writing knowledge | 169 |
11 | Writing outside the lines : advanced lessons | 193 |
12 | Going schoolwide : ideas to create a spiraling curriculum | 233 |