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Transforming writing instruction in the digital age : techniques for grades 5-12 / Thomas DeVere Wolsey, Dana L. Grisham ; series editors' note by Diane Lapp and Douglas Fisher ; foreword by Bridget Dalton

Author
Wolsey, Thomas DeVere
Published
New York : Guilford Press, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
Physical Description
xx, 236 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Additional Creators
Grisham, Dana L., 1945-

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Contents
Getting started with tools and teaching. Resources: anytime, anywhere -- Management: computers in the classroom -- Management: the hardware -- Direct instruction -- A word about differentiation -- Writing and thinking. Embracing writing: knowledge-transforming writing -- Why writing is a process, and how technology can help -- Working with sources: keeping track of learning, and leaving a path for others to follow -- Working with sources: using style guides -- Writing to understand: it's all about the discipline. Discussion and writing -- Writing short pieces -- Short writing: electronic journals -- Blogs and classroom websites for writing -- Online literature discussion (threaded discussion) -- Vocabulary and writing -- Collaborative writing -- Are those kids texting again? -- Inquiry and long thinking meet the disciplines. FAQs about writing in the disciplines -- It's all the same, or maybe not? -- What was that essential question again? -- Learning because I'm writing: logs and journals -- Writing is (hard) cognitive work: Bloom's taxonomy matters -- Internet inquiry -- Prompts -- Prewriting: composing before writing with pen or keyboard -- Prewriting with graphic organizers -- Feedback, assessment, and technology -- What about literature and English language arts?. Short writing: summaries in response to reading -- The Zen of writing about literature -- Persuasion: in this essay, I'm going to convince you-- -- Prompts for writing: language arts -- Composing with multimedia. Visualize it! -- Podcasting: it's "ear-resistible" -- Wrapping it up. Advocacy for technology and new literacies -- High-stakes writing assessments -- Automated tools -- Publication.
Summary
"An innovative, practical guide for middle and high school teachers, this book is packed with specific ways that technology can help serve the goals of effective writing instruction. It provides ready-to-implement strategies for teaching students to compose and edit written work electronically; conduct Internet inquiry; create blogs, websites, and podcasts; and use text messaging and Twitter productively. The book is grounded in state-of-the-art research on the writing process and the role of writing in content area learning. Teacher-friendly features include vivid classroom examples, differentiation tips, links to online resources, and reproducible worksheets and forms"-- Provided by publisher.
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ISBN
9781462504657 (pbk.)
1462504655 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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