Provides teaching ideas and lessons plans for teachers on grammar instruction for middle and secondary school students to improve their writing skills.
Grammar Plan Book and Grammar to Enrich and Enhance
More than fifteen years ago, Constance Weaver's Grammar for Teachers (NCTE, 1979) broke new ground by responding to widespread concern about the place of grammar in the curriculum. Suggesting that...
Now focused on the reading process. The Brief Edition of Constance Weaver's classic Reading Process & Practice begins with the seemingly simple question "What is reading, anyway? What is the essence of the reading process itself?
This new book helps you apply a limited amount of grammar instruction directly to writing and enables you to map out instruction in the way that best serves the needs of your students.
Authoritative. Comprehensive. Definitive. Reading Process and Practice, since its original publication in 1988, has helped countless preservice and practicing teachers better understand the reading process and translate it into classroom...
With Teaching Grammar in Context, thousands of teachers discovered why students achieve better results when they learn grammar during the process of writing. In Lessons to Share, Connie Weaver's promised...
Updated and revised, this text begins with a discussion of the reading process. New to this edition are chapters on characterizing whole language principles and practices and growing into whole...
This guide provides: Clear explanations of grammatical terms as a refresher for teachers Easy-to-implement classroom activities, including examples and word play from children′s literature Appropriate techniques for a broad audience of ...
The aim of this book is to demonstrate that whole language is good education that can help to develop literate citizens and lifelong learners.
Loaded with techniques for helping students brainstorm, plan, and organize their writing, this handbook troubleshoots issues students face when writing in a printed versus digital context and teaches them how to read in multiple mediums.