Inside Out, Fourth Edition: Strategies For Teaching Writing,Used

If Youre Ultimately Helping Students Become Creative Individuals With A Voice; Fluent, Contextaware Experts With Language; And Engaged And Thinking Adults, We Think Youre Doing Your Job As A Writing Teacher (Above And Beyond What The Standardsoftheweek Have To Say On The Matter).Dawn Latta Kirby And Darren Crovitzto Teach Writing Well, We Dont Look Someplace Out There For Rules, Formulas, And Mimicry, Write Dawn Latta Kirby And Darren Crovitz. We Begin, Instead, By Teaching Students To Attend To Their Inner Language, To Their Individual Sensations, Perceptions, Emotions, Incipient Understandings, Observations, And Perspectives. Writing, Like All Other Acts Of Creation, Develops From The Inside Out.In This Highly Practical Guide Filled With A Wealth Of Activities For The Classroom, Dawn And Darren Continue The Longstanding Tradition Of Earlier Editions Of Inside Out With Guidance For Building A Community Of Writers, Providing Innovative And Effective Strategies For Meeting Kids Where They Are And Coaching Them To Write With Passion And Purpose Across All Genres. Readers Will Relish The Somewhat Irreverent Tone That Fans Of Earlier Editions Have Come To Expect. Dawn And Darrens Updates And Revisions In This Edition Speak Directly To Todays Teacher, Offering: New Strategies And Suggestions That Incorporate Technology In Meaningful Ways And Speak To Todays Tech Natives In Terms They Understand Guidance For Working With English Language Learners And Their Writing Inventive, Realitybased Approaches To Research Options For Using Nonfiction And Nontraditional Texts In Your Teaching A Fresh Take On The Importance Of Authentic Literacy Education, Especially In The Age Of The Highstakes Testing And The Common Core Realworld Wisdom And Strategies For Teaching Writing From A Team Of Middle And High School Teachers.From Theory To Practice, This Comprehensive Text Has Everything Youll Need To Engage Your Students And Get Them Writing From The Inside Out.