Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product

Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product, 3/e

Gail E. Tompkins, California State University, Fresno

Published June, 1999 by Prentice Hall Career & Technology

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Summary

This text is ideal for undergraduate or graduate courses in Elementary Language Arts where the focus is on writing or teaching writing. Using a process approach to writing, this text focuses on teaching strategies that will help children in grades K-8 use the writing process to develop and improve their writing skills and their writing products. It examines all major types of writing through a practical presentation that includes a wealth of children's authentic writing samples which helps bring the writing process to life.

Features

NEW—Explains the components of the writing workshop and provides suggestions for use with all grade levels—It also provides information on how to teach writing skills and strategies for using writing workshop, how to encourage children to experiment with writing domains, and how to monitor and assess children's writing.
NEW—Focuses on monitoring the process children use as they write and helps to assess children's written products. NEW—Presents five levels of support that teachers can provide for children as they write—Modeled writing, shared writing, interactive writing, guided writing, and independent writing.
NEW—Contains lists of children's literature—Exemplify each writing form and suggest strategies to demonstrate the connections between reading and writing.
Contains more than 200 authentic writing samples.
Discusses spelling, grammar, handwriting, and their uses—As well as the contributions technology can make to writing instruction.
Emphasizes portfolio assessment.
Devotes an entire chapter to the subject of curriculum.
Uses writing to enhance learning in content areas with examples in each chapter.
Explores in detail, the style and subtleties of frequently used writing forms—biographical, letter, narrative, poetic, persuasive, journal, and expository.

Table of Contents
I. PROCESS AND PRODUCT.

1. Teaching Children to Write.
2. Writing Workshop.
3. Writing Strategies and Skills.
4. Writers' Tools.
5. Assessing Students' Writing.

II. WRITING DOMAINS.