Writing What Works in Writing Instruction Research and Practice, Second Edition Deborah Dean “What works?” As teachers, it’s a question we often ask ourselves about teaching writing, and it often summarizes other, more specific questions we have: ● What contributes to an effective climate for writing? ● What practices and structures best support effective writing instruction? ● What classroom content helps writers develop? ● What tasks are most beneficial for writers learning to write? ● What choices should I make as a teacher to best help my students?
Using teacher-friendly language and classroom examples, Deborah Dean helps answer these questions; she looks closely at instructional practices supported by a broad range of research and weaves them together into accessible recommendations that can inspire teachers to find what works for their own classrooms and students. Initially based on the Carnegie Institute’s influential Writing Next report, this second edition of What Works in Writing Instruction looks at more types of research that have been conducted in the decade since the publication of that first research report. The new research rounds out its list of recommended practices and is designed to help teachers apply the findings to their unique classroom environments. We all must find the right mix of practices and tasks for our own students, and this book offers the best of what is currently known about effective writing instruction to help teachers help students develop as writers. 170 pp. | 2021 | Grades 7–12 | ISBN 9780814156810 $23.96 member/$29.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814156827
Genre Theory
Strategic Writing
Teaching, Writing, and Being
The Writing Process and Beyond in the Secondary English Classroom, Second Edition
Deborah Dean Contemporary genre theory is probably not what you learned in college. Its dynamic focus on writing as a social activity in response to a particular situation makes it a powerful tool for teaching practical skills and preparing students to write beyond the classroom. Although genre is often viewed as simply a method for labeling different types of writing, Deborah Dean argues that exploring genre theory can help teachers energize their classroom practices. Genre Theory synthesizes theory and research about genres and provides applications that help teachers artfully address the challenges of teaching high school writing. Theory and Research Into Practice (TRIP) series 119 pp. | 2008 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814118412 $22.36 member/$27.99 nonmember
Deborah Dean Dean worked with high school teachers to refine, reorganize, and update the material in this book to better support classroom teachers dedicated to teaching not just the process of writing but also the strategies that help students learn to write effectively throughout their lives. Along with engaging and practical mini-lesson classroom activities, this new edition offers (1) lesson plans that differentiate between strategy, activity, and mini-lesson to show how all three function in a strategic approach; (2) a focus on digital tools and genres; (3) conceptual material in early, short chapters and the teaching ideas, examples of student work, and lesson plans in appendixes; and (4) grouping by types of strategies. Dean also considers students’ out-of-school as well as inschool writing tasks. 208 pp. | 2017 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814147559 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814147573
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