The No-Nonsense Guide to Teaching Writing: Strategies, Structures, and Solutions

by Judy Davis

Book Overview

Filling their book with specific how-to details, Judy Davis and Sharon Hill describe the organization of a successful yearlong writing workshop, centered on writing cycles and the writing notebook. They help teachers prepare tools, address management issues, get the work started, and build momentum as students increase their understanding of good writing practice. Their companion website, http: //www.heinemann.com/davis-hill, offers forms, reproducibles, and additional student samples.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325005214
• ISBN13: 9780325005218
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 10.9"
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 8

Customer Reviews

writing workshop ideas

I LOVE this book! It has fantastic ideas for your classroom. Gives great ideas for texts to use to generate ideas with students as well as how to manage the lessons for your students. Wonderful!

An Essential Book for Writing Teachers

This book makes it possible for teachers of writing to sit beside Judy Davis and Sharon Hill as they teach in their classrooms in the Manhattan New School. As the title suggests, this book is full of practical strategies for teaching students to write well. But the book is much more ambitious than that. It gives us a window into how these two incredible writing teachers think about children and curriculum in a writing workshop. For all of that, readers of this book will be thankful each time they return to the pages of the book to learn more and more.