Transforming Writing Instruction in the Digital Age

Techniques for Grades 5-12

Thomas DeVere Wolsey, Dana L. Grisham

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781462504657
• eBook ISBN: 9781462504695
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Technology

An innovative, practical guide for middle and high school teachers, this book is packed with specific ways that technology can help serve the goals of effective writing instruction. It provides ready-to-implement strategies for teaching students to compose and edit written work electronically; conduct Internet inquiry; create blogs, websites, and podcasts; and use text messaging and Twitter productively. The book is grounded in state-of-the-art research on the writing process and the role of writing in content-area learning. Teacher-friendly features include vivid classroom examples, differentiation tips, links to online resources, and reproducible worksheets and forms. The large-size format facilitates photocopying.

Table of contents

• Half Title
• Series Page
• Copyright Page
• About the Authors
• Series Editors’ Note
• Foreword
• Introduction: Writing for and with the Millennial Generation
• Contents
• Hashtags by Technique
• Part One–Getting Started with Tools and Teaching
• Part Two–Writing and Thinking
• Part Three–Writing to Understand: It’s All about the Discipline
• Part Four–Inquiry and Long Thinking Meet the Disciplines
• Part Five–What about Literature and English Language Arts?
• Part Six–Composing with Multimedia
• Appendix: Common Core Content Standards for Writing, Grades 6–12
• Glossary
• References
• Index