High-Impact Writing Clinics: 20 Projectable Lessons for Building Literacy Across Content Areas (Corwin Literacy) - Softcover

Holbrook, Sara; Salinger, Michael

 
9781452286860: High-Impact Writing Clinics: 20 Projectable Lessons for Building Literacy Across Content Areas (Corwin Literacy)

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Next-generation lessons for today′s student writers

These 20 high-energy projectable lessons for grades 4-8 harness the brevity and potency of poetry for teaching the intricate skills behind writing well in any subject. The 100 poems―set against vivid full-color photographs and graphics on more than 500 slides―serve as a springboard for activities in which students read, discuss, and write to meet the literacy objectives of the Common Core:

Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and meanings

Interpret words and phrases

Analyze the structure of texts

Produce clear and coherent writing

Present information, findings, and supporting evidence

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Learn more about Sara Holbrook′s PD offerings


Sara Holbrook is a full-time educator, author/poet and consultant, who has been teaching in classrooms acrpss the U.S. and abroad for more than twenty years. She is the author of over a dozen books for children, adults, and teachers as well as an award-winning performance poet. A frequent keynote speaker, Sara shows teachers how to use writing and oral presentation exercises to help raise vocabulary and other literacy skills, along with how to teacher comprehension through collaboration, writing, and classroom performance across all grade levels and content areas. 



Learn more about Michael Salinger′s PD offerings


A fixture in the performance poetry and education community, Michael Salinger has been writing and performing poetry and fiction for over twenty years. His work has appeared in dozens of literary journals published in the U.S. and Canada, and he has coauthored two professional books with Sara: Outspoken! and High-Definition. Michael is also the founder and chief facilitator of the teen writing and performance program at Cleveland’s Playhouse Square Foundation--the second largest performing arts center in the United States after Broadway.

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