- 401 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
This unique book focuses on how to provide effective instruction to K-12 students who find writing challenging, including English language learners and those with learning disabilities or language impairments. Prominent experts illuminate the nature of writing difficulties and offer practical suggestions for building students' skills at the word, sentence, and text levels. Topics include writing workshop instruction; strategies to support the writing process, motivation, and self-regulation; composing in the content areas; classroom technologies; spelling instruction for diverse learners; and assessment approaches. Every chapter is grounded in research and geared to the real-world needs of inservice and preservice teachers in general and special education settings.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I - Theoretical Grounding: The Nature of Writing Problems in Struggling Writers
- Part II - Contemporary Classroom Writing Instruction and Struggling Writers
- Part III - Teaching Composing to Struggling Writers
- Part IV - Teaching Spelling to Struggling Writers
- Part V - Assessment of Writing by Struggling Writers
- Index
- About Guilford Publications
- From the Publisher