Writing Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techniques

By Jim Burke

Book Overview

Like Reading Reminders, its best-selling companion, Writing Reminders is designed to be read on the run-between periods, while planning, even while teaching-to make every minute count in your classroom, to help you work smarter and more effectively. And like Reading Reminders, it features Jim Burke's best techniques, this time for teaching writing, complete with tools and tips on how to implement them. Every reminder is a result of his daily effort to solve the problems he faces in his classroom. And each one shows how it is possible to teach all students, as long as they make a genuine effort, to write clear, cohesive prose.

Look at the table of contents and in thirty seconds get an idea that will help you. Each reminder clearly states a technique in its title and includes: A Rationale-a brief explanation of what the reminder means and why it's important What to Do-questions to ask, activities to try, strategies to use Classroom Connection-sample assignments and student examples At a Glance-goals for writing in many genres Recommended Reading-sound investments for continued teaching of good writing. Writing Reminders directly addresses standards-based instruction, too, providing techniques and assignments to hone students' skills in key areas and prepare them to succeed on important state tests. Built on a foundation of recent research into effective literacy teaching, the book offers a wealth of useful resources and processes that result in greater engagement and higher-level performance without "teaching to the test."

Regardless of the grade, the ability level, or even the subject you teach, you can find no better way to easily and quickly improve your writing instruction than to use Writing Reminders. And pair it with Reading Reminders for a complete reading and writing curriculum with ready-to-use techniques for effective teaching.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0867095210
• ISBN13: 9780867095210
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 12

Customer Reviews

A Great Book for English Teachers

This book was suggested to me while I was pursuing National Board Certification. When I read it, it was one of the best books that I have ever read about the teaching of writing. It gives English Teachers numerous strategies and ideas. Great teachers teach all students. Mr. Burke is a classroom teacher, so he is in the trenches. His book does not give teachers magic formulas. Excellent teachers know that we must teach the students who have in front of us everyday. He relates ideas and strategies that have worked for the children in his classroom. They may work for some teachers and students, and they may not. Stagnation in the classroom is not a good thing. Burke teaches teachers how to learn, to grow, and to reflect.

Everything from letters to creative fiction

Designed to be absorbed and assimilated" on the go", Writing Reminders: Tools, Tips, And Techniques by Jim Burke is a collection of over sixty brief yet useful self-teaching lessons to improving personal and professional writing skills resulting in an increased productively by operating at a higher level of performance, skill, and test-taking abilities. Especially intended for writing students, but also of immense value for the non-specialist general reader with an interest in pursing a passion for writing, Writing Reminders deftly addresses everything from using graphic organizers; to facilitate one's writing; to the formalities to be observed when writing everything from letters to creative fiction. Writing Reminders is a very highly recommended manual that can aptly serve as a classroom text, as well as an independent study instructional reference.