Product Details

• Author: Graham Foster and Toni L. Marasco
• Year: 2007
• Grade Range: 3-8

• Media: 160 pp/paper
• ISBN: 978-155138-218-0
• Item No.: WSB-8218

A Pembroke Publishers Title

Exemplars presents a collection of remarkable student writing samples along with powerful strategies for using them to establish standards and to generate more effective classroom writing!

This innovative book explores how teachers can use student exemplars as part of classroom writing instruction. More than 50 exemplar-based mini-lessons provide a hands-on, flexible approach to meeting specific student writing needs. These activities involve students in evaluating writing samples and then applying what they have learned to their own work.

Organized around the six key traits of good writing—content, organization, sentence variety, word choice, voice, and language conventions—this resource for both new and experienced teachers demonstrates how to collect and present student writing samples to engage young writers and model effective skills.

Table of Contents

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Contents
Introduction: The Expanding Role of Exemplars
Chapter 1: Strategies
Chapter 2: Content
Chapter 3: Organization
Chapter 4: Sentence Variety
Chapter 5: Word Choice
Chapter 6: Voice
Chapter 7: Conventions
Appendixes
Index

Graham Foster
Graham is a writer and workshop presenter in schools, at conventions, and in professional development consortia. He has thirty two years of teaching experience, including thirteen years as language arts supervisor for Calgary Catholic Schools.
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Toni L. Marasco
A dedicated educator for forty years, Toni L. Marasco has been a classroom teacher, special education teacher, language arts consultant, supervisor, and school principal.
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