Teaching Tools -
Writing
 

Books:

• Booth, D. (2001). Reading & Writing in the Middle Years. Portland, Maine: Stenhouse Publishers; Markham, Ontario: Pembroke Publishers Limited.
  
  
• Graves, D.H. (1983). Writing: Teachers & Children at Work. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann Educational Books.

 On-line Resources:

• Illinois State Board Of Education. (1997). Illinois Learning Standards. Retrieved from http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/Default.htm on September 27, 2006.
  
  

• New York Department of Education. (2002). New York Performance Standards. New York: New York State Printing Office. Retrieved from http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/ela/elacore.pdf  on October 5, 2006.
  
  
• South Regional Educational Board. (2005). Literacy Across the Curriculum: Setting and Implementing Goals for Grades Six Through Twelve. Atlanta: SREB. Retrieved from http://www.sreb.org/Programs/hstw/publications/pubs/LiteracyGuide.asp  on October 5, 2006.
  
  
• The National Council of Teachers of English. (November, 2004). NCTE Beliefs About the Teaching of Writing. Retrieved from http://www.ncte.org/prog/writing/research/118876.htm?source=gs on October 2, 2006.
  
  

• Helping Children Learn to Write  
  
  

• Pennsylvania Literacy Framework –  Why and how we write along with the contexts for writing are discussed in this document.
  
  
  

  

• Using Student Engagement to Improve Adolescent Literacy  -  Ideas and

  resources to meet the needs of adolescent writers. 
  
  

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  A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways to Support Teachers in Meeting Students’ Needs –  an outline of what adolescent readers and their teachers need to be successful.
  
  

• Digital Storytelling - a way to combine technology with writing.

U-46 Presentations:

• Mike Dunn's Presentation on Writing in the Classroom
  
  
• Video presentations from a grade 1-2 split classroom and a grade 5 classroom in U-46.