But her strategies, expert advice, and compelling in-class video footage will help you turn inspiration into great teaching. Penny Kittle’s active coaching and can-do attitude alone will energize your teaching and inspire you to write with your students.
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Best of all, the online videos take you right inside Penny’s classroom, explicitly modeling how to make the process of writing accessible to all kids. In addition, Write Beside Them provides a study guide, reproducibles, writing samples from Penny and her students, suggestions for nurturing your own writing life, and a helpful FAQ.
Assessment: evaluation, feedback, portfolios, and gradingĪll along the way, Penny demonstrates minilessons that respond to students’ immediate needs, and her Student Focus sections profile and spotlight how individual writers grew and changed over the course of her workshop. Skills work: grammar, punctuation, and style. Genre work: narrative, persuasion, and writing in multiple genres. Instructional frameworks: minilessons, organization, conferring, and sharing drafts. Daily writing practice: writer’s notebooks and quick writes. Each section of Write Beside Them describes a specific element of Penny’s workshop: It’s the comprehensive book and companion video that English/language arts teachers need to ensure that teens improve their writing.Īcross genres, Penny Kittle presents a flexible framework for instruction, the theory and experience to back it up, and detailed teaching information to help you implement it right away. Write Beside Them shows you how to do it. What makes the single biggest difference to student writers? When the invisible machinery of your writing processes is made visible to them. 
This is a book of vision and hope and joy, but it is also a book of genre units and minilessons and actual conferences with students. This is the book I wanted when I was first given ninth graders and a list of novels to teach. But it is also the planning, the thinking, the writing, the journey: all I’ve been putting into my teaching for the last two decades. This book is about teaching writing and the gritty particulars of teaching adolescents.
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