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Coaching Writing in Content Areas: Write-for-Insight Strategies, Grades 6-12, 2nd edition

Published by Pearson (June 8, 2011) © 2012

  • William Strong

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•Practical, classroom-tested strategies help learners make personal learning connections in all content areas. •End-of-chapter “Write for Insight Activities” offer tools for instructors and workshop leaders to use in pre- and in-service courses. •Model prompts and rubrics help teachers develop imaginative tasks and rubrics tied to each content area. •Research-proven strategies for coaching struggling readers and writers are discussed and demonstrated. •Expressive writing activities like note-taking, drawing, summarizing, brainstorming, and metaphor-building are illustrated in content area contexts •Strategies for managing student groups and coaching students to take pride in revision are offered in later chapters. •Alternative formats to the traditional research paper–and strategies for avoiding Internet plagiarism–are included. •A “Coaching and Judging Writing” chapter helps content area teachers avoid the “Red Pencil Blues.”
•NEW! “Writing in a Digital World,” (Ch. 10) showcases how some content teachers now use technology to engage tech-savvy students. •NEW! Profiles of expert content-area teachers illustrate write-for-insight coaching in real-life settings. Examples in the areas of health, science, mathematics, social studies, and language arts are included. •NEW! New samples of writing prompts, rubrics, and student writing broaden the range of coaching illustrations. •NEW! “Flexible teaming” and “wall text” are introduced as coaching strategies, and an extended vignette illustrates these strategies in action. •NEW! A simplified and streamlined framework of discourse categories is provided in the Preface, making the material more accessible for content teachers. •NEW! A new Epilogue overviews 11 research-based strategies for teaching writing to adolescents. •NEW! Updated references and a reorganized Table of Contents are included.

Foreword by Dan Kirby     

About the Author  

 

PREFACE     Introducing Insight    

New to This Edition

Now a Small Confession   

Writing and Skiing           

Learning Together            

Why Writing Matters       

Good News from NAEP      

Writing on the Home Front              

Mapping the Chapters       

Acknowledgments              

Write for Insight Activity 

 

1  Writing from the Inside Out          

Remembered Writing       

Narration as Knowledge  

Prompting Narrative       

Literacy Autobiographies 

Reflecting on Narrative   

Content Area Examples   

Narrative Insights          

Write for Insight Activity

 

2  Challenging the Hidden Curriculum         

Teacher as Writer             

Resistance to Writing       

The Hidden Curriculum of Writing               

Roots of the Hidden Curriculum     

Writing without Grades    

Note-Taking and Note-Making        

Resisting the Hidden Curriculum  

Making Learning Personal             

Writing-to-Learn Samples

Thinking Outside the Box

Write for Insight Activity 

 

3  Exploring Expressive Writing      

Windows to the Heart        

Opening Expressive Windows         

Quotation Prompts             

Guided Imagery  

Dramatic Scenarios (Cases)            

Role-Playing       

Dialogue Writing               

A Reader/Writer Dialogue              

Write for Insight Activity 

 

4  Tapping the Power of Metaphor   

Valentine’s Day  

The Power of Metaphor     

Exercising Metaphor         

More about Metaphor        

Using Semantic Charts     

Using Pattern Poems         

Metaphors in Prose           

Metaphors of Teaching     

Write for Insight Activity  

 

5    Helping Basic Writers Succeed    

Basics of Good Teaching  

Wall Text Basics

Back to Human Basics      

Developing Transcribing Skill       

Using Content-Based Dictation       

Summarizing and Paraphrasing     

Teaching Basics Strategically        

Sentence-Combining Basics            

Workshop-Style Teaching

A Bridge to Literacy          

Write for Insight Activity

 

6  Designing Assignments and Rubrics        

Darth Vader in Action       

Assignments by Design    

Assignments to Motivate  

Ten Design Principles      

Context + RAFT = CRAFT               

Case Study of an Assignment          

Content Area Writing Tasks          

Darth Vader Revisited       

Write for Insight Activity 

        

7    Managing the Writing Process     

Coaching Writing              

Visualizing the Writing Process   

Understanding the Model  

Guiding Cycle 1 Activities (Prewriting)        

Guiding Cycle 2 Activities (Revising)            

Prompting Self-Assessment            

Bumps in Process Teaching            

Managing Collaborative Writing    

Write for Insight Activity 

    

8  Coaching and Judging Writing      

Responding to Writing     

Thinking about Assessment            

Coaching versus Judging 

Getting Ready to Coach     

Up-Front Coaching             

Coaching as Response      

Audiotape Coaching           

Getting Ready to Judge     

Judging Portfolios             

Coaching as a Lifetime Sport          

Write for Insight Activity 

    

9  Researching Outside the Box

A Research Story               

Personalized Research     

The Saturation Report      

A Student Saturation Report           

The I-Search Paper            

Multigenre Research Project          

Challenging Advanced Students     

Traditional Guided Research           

The Problem of Fakery     

Write for Insight Activity 

  

10  Writing in a Digital World 

Cultural Divide   

iPod Inspiration  

WebQuest Nation               

PowerPoint Pedagogy        

A Gift of Glogs    

Guerrilla Journalism        

Classroom Demonstration               

Blogging Basics

Exploratory First Steps

Write for Insight Activity

 

EPILOGUE   

Revisiting Insight       

Listening to Students        

Coaching with Insight       

Leveling with Students      

The “Writing Next” Report             

Listening to Research

Write for Insight Activity

 

APPENDIX A Literacy Autobiography Case Study

 

APPENDIX B Bob Tierney’s Concept-Trigger Words

 

APPENDIX C Macie Wolfe’s Cubing Activity

 

APPENDIX D Generic Graphic Organizers  

 

APPENDIX E Content Area Writing Assignments  

 

References

 

Index          

William Strong has worked in middle school and high school literacy instruction for over four decades. Besides presenting hundreds of workshops and many conference talks, he has authored a dozen books and teacher resources, including Coaching Writing: The Power of Guided Practice (Heinemann, 2001). Bill was the consulting author in composition for the Writer's Choice textbooks (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2001) and the series consultant for English Matters! (Grolier, 2000), and he served for ten years on the National Writing Project Advisory Board. In addition, Bill founded the Utah Writing Project at Utah State University and directed it for 25 years while also teaching courses in content area literacy, English education, and writing. Both his teaching and research have received college-level awards, and professional groups have honored him for his statewide leadership in pre-service and in-service teacher education. He enjoys downhill skiing, motorcycle touring, and working with school districts and National Writing Project sites. Readers can contact the author at Bill.Strong@usu.edu or wcstrong@msn.com.

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