Exemplars: Your Best Resource to Improve Student Writing - Tapa blanda

Teachers will love this collection of remarkable writing samples, along with powerful strategies for using them to establish standards and to generate more effective classroom writing. This innovative book offers more than fifty mini-lessons that provide a hands-on, flexible approach to meeting the specific writing needs of pupils. These activities involve classes in evaluating writing samples and then applying what they have learned to their own work.The book is organised around the six key features of good writing: relevant and appropriate content; organisation that includes a logical beginning, middle, and end; sentence variety that adds interest; word choice that indicates an awareness of purpose and audience; an original and honest voice; and, an understanding of spelling, punctuation, and their usage. This resource is ideal for both new and experienced teachers, and clearly demonstrates how to collect and present samples of class work to engage young writers and model effective skills.

Graham Foster was a literacy supervisor with a major school board for many years, and is now a private consultant and writer. His work centres on helping teachers in the development of practical, effective classroom approaches to all aspects of language and learning. Toni L. Marasco has worked for more than forty years as a classroom teacher, SENCO, literacy consultant, supervisor, and head teacher. She has written and edited many articles, books, and publications on a wide range of education issues