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Teaching Writing in a Title I School: K-3

by Nancy Akhavan
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Overview

You know the challenges. In your Title I school you have students who are already at risk. Imagine what could happen if you could catch them up, forestall learning issues before they are entrenched, put them on equal footing with their peers. Nancy Akhavan has done it-in school after school. In Teaching Writing in a Title I School she shows you how to craft a rich literacy world where all your students thrive.

"The first step you can take is to teach them to write. Really. Teaching children to write well is the key to helping them express themselves. It's also a scaffold to guide their thinking and understanding. It just might solve your teaching problems. You can ensure that all children learn, and you can close the achievement gap."

Nancy's guidance is as practical as it is effective. Her carefully crafted planning tools, lessons, and graphic organizers make writing workshop fit seamlessly into your day. Her classroom workshop routines promote student engagement and provide focus. You'll learn how to organize units of study using the lessons from your existing writing program. State standards and meaningful assessment suddenly become manageable. You'll also find effective intervention activities for students who struggle and tips for teaching English learners to write.

This book is a must-have resource for teaching to engage all your students, ensure learning, and effectively intervene when students need it. With its companion, Teaching Reading in a Title I School, individual teachers, teachers studying together in professional learning communities, and preservice teachers will find the tools they need to build literacy instruction that guides all their students to high achievement.

Synopsis

Nancy s guidance is as practical as it is effective. Her carefully crafted planning tools, lessons, and graphic organizers make writing workshop fit seamlessly into your day. Her classroom workshop routines promote student engagement and provide focus. You ll learn how to organize units of study using the lessons from your existing writing program. State standards and meaningful assessment suddenly become manageable. You ll also find effective intervention activities for students who struggle and tips for teaching English learners to write.

This book is a must-have resource for teaching to engage all your students, ensure learning, and effectively intervene when students need it. With its companion, Teaching Reading in a Title I School, individual teachers, teachers studying together in professional learning communities, and preservice teachers will find the tools they need to build literacy instruction that guides all their students to high achievement.

About the Author, Nancy Akhavan

Nancy Akhavan is an educational leader and currently Assistant Superintendent, Secondary Division in Fresno Unified School District, a large urban district in California's Central Valley. She has worked as a principal, elementary school bilingual teacher, bilingual resource teacher, and professional developer for the past twenty years. Nancy is passionate about providing a high quality education for all children through authentic, purposeful instruction. She has provided staff development training to teachers grades K-12 on topics as Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English, English Language Development, literacy, and standards based instruction. She also has provided training to teacher leaders and administrators in systems and culture change, school reform, and classroom based professional development. Nancy was formerly Principal of Pinedale Elementary School in Clovis Unified School District, and Lee Richmond Elementary School in Hanford, California. Her books include: How to Align Literacy Instruction, Assessment, and Standards: And Achieve Results You Never Dreamed Possible (2004) , Help! My Kids Don't All Speak English: How to Set Up a Language Workshop in Your Linguistically Diverse Classroom(2006), The Title I Teacher's Guide to Teaching Reading, K-3 (2008), and The Teaching Writing in a Title I School, K-3 (2009). Nancy Akhavan is Heinemann Professional Development provider.

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Book Details

Published
August 1, 2009
Publisher
Heinemann
Pages
192
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780325013886

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