Helping students put words on a page can be hard enough.
I don't have anything to write about they say.
And when writing does happen, how do you help them develop these ideas into more effective pieces? A powerful tool to jumpstart writing In The Quickwrite Handbook, master teacher Linda Rief shares 100 compelling mentor texts and shows how to use each one as a powerful tool for sparking successful writing.
Each mentor text includes Try this suggestions for inviting students to get started.
You'll also find Interludes woven throughout: examples of quickwrites that students crafted into more fully developed pieces.
These mentor texts are curated in four categories: Seeing Inward: How do students view themselves? Leaning Outward: What do students consider when they step outside of themselves? Beyond Self: What do students notice and wonder about the world at large? Looking Back: How does reflection help students grow into more articulate, thoughtful citizens of the world? Quickwrites go beyond writing prompts The pages of this book champion Linda's wise words: Quickwrites-writing to find writing-are a powerful teaching tool that help students find ideas, discover their voices, and build their confidence as they discover they have important things to say.
Quickwrites are more than a set of formulaic prompts.
They are opportunities for students to use another writer's words to stimulate their thinking and-through writing themselves-to discover a voice they didn't know they had.
About the Author: Linda Rief teaches middle school in Durham, New Hampshire and is an instructor in the University of New Hampshire's Summer Literacy Institute.
A national and international presenter on issues of adolescent literacy, she is also a recipient of NCTE's Edwin A.
Hoey Award for Outstanding Middle School Educator in the English Language Arts.
Her newest book is The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Texts to Jumpstart Your Students' Thinking and Writing.
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| Throughout | Examples of quickwrites that students crafted into more fully developed pieces |
|---|---|
| These mentor texts are curated in four categories | Seeing |
| Inward | How do students view themselves |
| Outward | What do students consider when they step outside of themselves |
| Self | What do students notice and wonder about the world at large |
| Back | How does reflection help students grow into more articulate thoughtful citizens of the world |
| Linda's wise words | Quickwriteswriting to find writingare a powerful teaching tool that help students find ideas discover their voices and build their confidence as they discover they have important things to say |
| Author | Linda |
| Handbook | 100 |
Heinemann Educational Books The quickwrite handbook: 100 mentor texts to jumpstart your students' thinking and writing, paperback/linda rief
