Writing with Mentors: How to Reach Every Writer in the Room Using Current, Engaging Mentor Texts Contributor(s): Marchetti, Allison (Author), O'Dell, Rebekah (Author) |
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ISBN: 032507450X ISBN-13: 9780325074504 Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books OUR PRICE: $39.21 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading & Phonics - Language Arts & Disciplines |
Dewey: 428.007 |
LCCN: 2015012918 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 7.2" W x 9.2" (0.85 lbs) 224 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Writing With Mentors is one of the best books I've read on harnessing the power of mentor texts to spur authentic student writing. --Kelly Gallagher, author of Write Like This Writing With Mentors has transformed the way I think about using exemplar pieces. --Christopher Lehman, coauthor of Falling in Love with Close Reading I am certain Don Graves] would have celebrated these wise, kind, and fearless advocates for young writers. --Penny Kittle, author of Write Beside Them In Writing with Mentors, high school teachers Allison Marchetti and Rebekah O'Dell prove that the key to cultivating productive, resourceful writers-writers who can see value and purpose for writing beyond school-is using dynamic, hot-off-the-press mentor texts. In this practical guide, they provide savvy strategies for: --finding and storing fresh new mentor texts, from trusted traditional sources to the social mediums of the day In chapters that follow the scaffolded instruction Allison and Rebekah use in their own classrooms, you'll discover how using mentor texts can unfold across the year, from inspiration and planning to drafting, revising, and going public in final publication. Along the way, you'll find yourself reaching every writer in the room, whatever their needs. Our hope in this book, they write, is to show you a way mentors can help you teach anything you need or want to teach in writing. A way that is grounded in the work of real writers and the real reading you do every day. A way that is sustainable and fresh, and will serve your students long after they leave your classroom. |
Contributor Bio(s): Marchetti, Allison: - "Allison Marchetti is coauthor - with Rebekah O'Dell - of Writing with Mentors and Beyond Literary Analysis. Their popular blog Moving Writers focuses on writing instruction in middle and high school classrooms with an emphasis on voice and authenticity. Traveling the country to work with teachers and students provides constant inspiration as they help educators do the hard-and-transformative work of teaching real writing. Allison has taught middle and high school English in both public and independent schools in Richmond, Virginia. Her favorite moments in the classroom happen at students' desks, thinking and reading and writing beside them. Grades: 6 - 12"O'Dell, Rebekah: - "Rebekah O'Dell is coauthor - with Allison Marchetti - of Writing with Mentors and Beyond Literary Analysis. Their popular blog Moving Writers focuses on writing instruction in middle and high school classrooms with an emphasis on voice and authenticity. Traveling the country to work with teachers and students provides constant inspiration as they help educators do the hard-and-transformative work of teaching real writing. After more than a decade in the high school classroom, Rebekah currently teaches middle school English in Richmond, Virginia. She has experience using the reading and writing workshop model to transform student engagement at all levels, from inclusion classrooms to the International Baccalaureate program. Grades: 6 - 12" |