Mastering Short-Response Writing: Claim It! Cite It! Cement It!

By Alan Sitomer

Book Overview

Build confident, capable writers who own the concrete skills necessary to excel at composing evidence-based expository or argumentative short responses. In order to succeed on a wide range of writing assignments and assessments that call for writing to a prompt, students must control the content and mechanics of a logically structured, grammatically correct paragraph. California Teacher of the Year award winner and celebrated trade author Alan Sitomer outlines the Triple C writing system-- CLAIM IT! CITE IT! CEMENT IT! - a sequence of instructional steps that helps students concisely and convincingly respond to an on-demand prompt. Mastering Short-Response Writing is a particularly effective instructional tool for raising the skill sets of low-performing writers in grades 3 and up.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1338157779
• ISBN13: 9781338157772
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Scholastic Professional
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.3" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 8 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 8