Teaching Adolescent Writers

In Teaching Adolescent Writers, Kelly Gallagher, author of Reading Reasons and Deeper Reading, shows how students can be taught to write effectively. Kelly shares a number of classroom-tested strategies that enable teachers to:

• understand the importance of teaching writing;
• motivate young writers;
• see the importance modeling plays in building young writers (modeling from both the teacher and from real-world text);
• understand how providing choice elevates adolescent writing (and how to allow for choice within a rigorous curriculum);
• help students recognize the importance of purpose and audience;
• assess essays in ways that drive better writing performance.

Infused with humor and illuminating anecdotes, Kelly draws on his classroom experiences and work as co-director of a regional writing project to offer teachers both practical ways to incorporate writing instruction into their day and compelling reasons to do so.