Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product, 7th edition

For courses in literacy and writing instruction.

Balanced writing instruction that focuses on both process and product

Teaching Writing offers a comprehensive vision of the strategies that writers use, the writing genres and the writer's craft, along with techniques for improving the quality of students' writing. Authentic classroom artifacts, mini lessons and day-to-day teaching strategies are integrated throughout the text to guide pre-service teachers in their learning and offer applied examples.

The 7th Edition continues to thoroughly examine genres and instructional procedures with a strong focus on scaffolding instruction to ensure success for all students, including English learners and struggling writers.

Hallmark features of this title

• Chapter-opening vignettes show readers how real teachers apply the techniques discussed in the text in their own classrooms, including the conversations they have with their students.
• Artifacts of actual student writing show how students execute what they learn.
• Answering Teachers' Questions About features pose several chapter-related frequently asked questions, and then offer detailed guidance and advice from the author.
• Mini lessons offer detailed guidance for teaching essential strategies and skills to young writers.
• Step-by-Step features explain the procedures that writing teachers use every day, including word walls, clusters and KWL charts.
• Instructional Overview features set benchmarks for students' achievement for each genre.

New and updated features of this title

• NEW: Writing Standards introductions appear at the beginning of each chapter and are aligned to the mini lessons in that chapter.
• NEW: Part 1, chapters 1 to 5, has been carefully restructured to closely examine the writing process, writing workshop and specifics on how to develop writers in primary, middle and upper grade classrooms and to assess their progress.
• NEW: Takeaway Checklists provide critical teaching tips that pre-service teachers can download and keep handy for use in their own classrooms.
• UPDATED: Chapter 6, “Writing to Learn,” is reorganized and revised to address ways teachers can use writing as a tool for learning through a wealth of activities that ask students to demonstrate their learning through writing.
• UPDATED: Mentor Texts features list classic and contemporary books, broken down by topic or appropriate grade level, that are ideal for modeling the writer's craft, specific genres and instructional procedures
• UPDATED: Digital Toolkit features provide concrete examples of new ways to employ technology in classroom writing instruction.