How Do I Get Them to Write?: Explore the Reading-Writing Connection Using Freewriting and Mentor Texts to Motivate and Empower Students

ISBN-13: 9781551383224 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 160 str.

Karen Filewych

Opis

Shows teachers how to inspire students to learn to write and write to learn. Committed to the premise that all students can learn to write with appropriate teaching, modelling, and practice, it argues that reading and writing go hand in hand. This practical book shows you how to use freewriting exercises and powerful mentor texts to create classrooms where students enjoy putting pencil to paper.

O autorze

Karen Filewych has more than twenty years of educational experience as a teacher of all elementary grades and most recently as a school administrator. Her passion for literacy began as a young child with nightly bedtime stories and weekly trips to the library.

In 2007, she pursued this passion further by completing her Master of Education degree in the area of literacy. Her busy life includes writing, presenting at workshops, and leading writer-in-residence programs for students in schools and classrooms.

Her website, Words Change Worlds, highlights the power of words and provides teachers with regular book reviews and teaching ideas. Karen lives in Edmonton, Alberta, with her family.