Designing Writing Assignments

Traci Gardner offers practical tips, starting points, and a companion website to help secondary and college teachers design effective writing assignments.

Effective student writing begins with well-designed classroom assignments. In Designing Writing Assignments, veteran educator Traci Gardner offers practical ways for teachers to develop assignments that will allow students to express their creativity and grow as writers and thinkers while still addressing the many demands of resource-stretched classrooms. She explores how to balance pedagogical and curricular goals with the needs of multiple learners while managing everyday challenges such as mandates, testing, and the paper load. Gardner uses her classroom experience to provide ideas on how to effectively define a writing task, explore the expectations for a composition activity, and assemble the supporting materials that students need to do their best work. This book includes dozens of starting points that teachers can customize and further develop for the students in their own classrooms.

Author: Traci Gardner
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte
Published: 02/21/2008
Pages: 109
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 6.80h x 9.80w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9780814110850
ISBN10: 0814110851
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric
- Education | Teaching | Subjects | Language Arts
- Education | Curricula