A Quick Guide to Reviving Disengaged Writers, Grades 5-8 by Christopher Lehman

A Quick Guide to Reviving Disengaged Writers, Grades 5-8 by Christopher Lehman

Middle schoolers can be the masters of disengagement. Recognising that all students, adept and struggling writers alike, lose steam at times and need a revitalising jump start, Christopher Lehman offers effective, developmentally-appropriate fixes for addressing situations that frequently sidetrack or distract adolescent writers. Organised as a practical on-the-go teaching reference, the first four chapters offer strategies for counteracting commonplace situations that can regularly spring up and disengage middle school writers such as: writers who seem to have an almost “allergic” reaction to the writing process writers who “cannot possibly find anything to write about” writers who “talk, talk, talk the writing time away” writers who need constant approval before moving on. The final chapter offers an inquiry-based study guide that supports teachers in collaborating on and customising strategies for reviving the disengaged writers in their learning communities. A Quick Guide to Reviving Disengaged Writers is part of the Workshop Help Desk series. About the Workshop Help Desk series The Workshop Help Desk series is designed for teachers who believe in workshop teaching and who have already rolled up their sleeves enough to have encountered the predictable challenges. If you’ve struggled to get around quickly enough to help all your writers, if you’ve wondered how to tweak your teaching to make it more effective and lasting, if you’ve needed to adapt your teaching for English learners, if you’ve struggled to teach grammar or nonfiction writing or test prep…if you’ve faced these and other specific, pressing challenges, then this series is for you. Provided in a compact 5" x 7" format, the Workshop Help Desk series offers pocket-sized professional development. Samples Preview sample pages to A Quick Guide to Reviving Disengaged Writers, Grades 5–8

Christopher Lehman is the founder of The Educator Collaboration, a think tank and educational consultancy firm dedicated to improving the ways educators collaborate. He is a New York Times best-selling author, international speaker, and education consultant. His books include Kate Roberts' Falling In Love With Close Reading, Energize Research Reading and Writing, Lucy Calkins and Mary Ehrenworth's Paths to the Common Core, and A Quick Guide to Reviving Disengaged Writers. Several magazines and notable blogs have published his essays and interviews, including Voices in the Middle, SmartBrief, EdWeek, Choice Literacy, and Conversations with Teachers. Chris has worked as a middle school, high school, literacy coach, and Senior Staff Development with Columbia University's Teachers College Reading and Writing Project.

Via The Educator Collaboration, he now supports educators, coaches, and administrators in providing rigorous and passionate literacy instruction across curriculum areas in schools all around the world. Chris earned his M.A. after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His Ed.M. is from New York University, where he studied teaching. Teachers College, Columbia University, has a master's degree in educational leadership.

He serves on the NCTE Middle Level Section Steering Committee, is a Special Advisor to the National Center for Family Learning, is a Booksource Ambassador for student reading lives, and was a project adviser on a joint NCTE/National Center for Literacy Education partnership venture, in addition to consulting and writing. Chris can be found on the internet.

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ISBN 13	9780325042800
ISBN 10	0325042802
Title	A Quick Guide to Reviving Disengaged Writers, Grades 5-8
Author	Christopher Lehman
Series	Workshop Help Desk Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pearson Education (US)
Year published	2011-07-22
Number of pages	96
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