From Talking to Writing: Strategies for Supporting Narrative and Expository Writing

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This new, significantly updated edition of From Talking to Writing offers welcome help for any educator working with students who struggle with writing and/or expressive language skills. From word choice to sentence structure and composition development, this book provides step-by-step strategies for teaching narrative and expository writing. What you’ll find in this second edition: theory behind language difficulties and appropriate instructional practices, techniques for teaching word choice and proper grammar, instructional strategies to help students organize and expand their writing, scaffolded templates for sentence, paragraph, and essay instruction ready to use in the classroom with clear instruction, teaching dialogues, and sample responses. What’s *NEW* in this edition: Personal sequence narrative techniques, semantic features analysis, sentence expansion strategies, micro-discourse text elaboration, Common Core Standard indexing.
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Landmark Outreach
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 27 Oct. 2017
Edition ‏ : ‎ 2nd
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 250 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0971329796
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0971329799
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 748 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 27.71 x 21.69 x 2.01 cm
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