High-Impact Writing Clinics

20 Projectable Lessons for Building Literacy Across Content Areas
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4522-8686-0
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 279 mm, Gewicht: 665 g

Reihe: Corwin Literacy

Next-generation lessons for today's student writers

These 20 high-energy projectable lessons for grades 4-8 harness the brevity and potency of poetry for teaching the intricate skills behind writing well in any subject. The 100 poems—set against vivid full-color photographs and graphics on more than 500 slides—serve as a springboard for activities in which students read, discuss, and write to meet the literacy objectives of the Common Core:

Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and meanings

Interpret words and phrases

Analyze the structure of texts

Produce clear and coherent writing

Present information, findings, and supporting evidence

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holbrook, Sara

Salinger, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

At-a-Glance Clinic Descriptions
Foreword by Stephanie Harvey
Introduction
Clinic 1. Objective versus Subjective: Making Sense of Opinions
Clinic 2. The List Poem
Clinic 3. The Summary Poem: What's the Big Idea?
Clinic 4. The Found Poem: Finding the Unusual in the Usual
Clinic 5. Feelings Made Visual
Clinic 6. Couplets on the Brain
Clinic 7. No Longer the Same: Building Comparisons
Clinic 8. The Questioning Poem: A Way of Wondering
Clinic 9. Refrain: Come Again?
Clinic 10. Personification: A Word Walks in.
Clinic 11. Point of View
Clinic 12. Word Definition Poems
Clinic 13. Weighting the Evidence: Logical Poetry
Clinic 14. The Prepositional Phrase Poem
Clinic 15. Simile for Me
Clinic 16. Metaphor Mentor Text
Clinic 17. Exquisite Metaphors: Comparing Apples and Oranges
Clinic 18. The Extended Metaphor: Care and Feeding
Clinic 19. Revision up Close: Self-Edit Checklist
Clinic 20. Speaking out: Public Speaking with Conviction
Revision Checklist
About the Poets
Index of Poems

Über Autor(innen)

Holbrook, Sara
Learn more about Sara Holbrook's PD offerings

Sara Holbrook is a full-time educator, author/poet and consultant, who has been teaching in classrooms acrpss the U.S. and abroad for more than twenty years. She is the author of over a dozen books for children, adults, and teachers as well as an award-winning performance poet. A frequent keynote speaker, Sara shows teachers how to use writing and oral presentation exercises to help raise vocabulary and other literacy skills, along with how to teacher comprehension through collaboration, writing, and classroom performance across all grade levels and content areas.

Salinger, Michael
Learn more about Michael Salinger's PD offerings

A fixture in the performance poetry and education community, Michael Salinger has been writing and performing poetry and fiction for over twenty years. His work has appeared in dozens of literary journals published in the U.S. and Canada, and he has coauthored two professional books with Sara: Outspoken! and High-Definition. Michael is also the founder and chief facilitator of the teen writing and performance program at Cleveland’s Playhouse Square Foundation--the second largest performing arts center in the United States after Broadway.