RESPONSE JOURNALS

Education & Teaching

Parsons, Les

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

WRITING IN THE REAL CLASSROOM

Poetry, Themes, and Activities: Exploring the Fun and Fantasy of Language

Journals open the door to communication for students of all backgrounds. In Expanding Response Journals, teachers will learn how to introduce and use journal writing in all areas of the curriculum. The book suggests novel ways to help students document experiences as diverse as their ideas about and reactions to a science experiment, a field trip, using a blow-torch in a metal shop, a small-group discussion in family studies, and even a math lesson. To help both teachers and students get started, this valuable guide provides sample cueing questions and responses; suggests how to use journals in co-operative learning situations; discusses evaluation, including diagnostic questionnaires; explores the issue of privacy and trust between teacher and student; and provides extensive student sample responses. Teachers will discover unique ways to use response journals as they help students become independent, life-long learners.

EXPANDING RESPONSE JOURNALS

Response Journals

Heinemann Educational Books

Poetry Themes and Activities

David Fulton Publishers Ltd

Expanding Response Journals

Pembroke Publishers

Drawing on a wealth of models, checklists, and guidelines, Revising &amp; Editing shows classroom teachers how to address the teaching of specific revising and editing skills to improve both fiction and nonfiction writing. Les Parsons explores the concept and the goal behind these two distinct practices through: activities that encourage students to rethink the writing process, from initial idea to final product; a toolkit of reproducible sheets that focus on a range of skills--from word choice, sentence, and paragraph structure to grammar, punctuation, and title treatment; tips for promoting collaborative learning through peer and student-teacher conferences and parental involvement; 8 series of student models that illustrate prose narratives, essays, poems, and projects, and how to use these models with students; a thorough discussion of the role of drafting in the computer age; practical suggestions for the assessment and evaluation of student writing; a glossary of terms for easy reference.

Revising and Editing: Using Models and Checklists to Promote Succcessful Writing Experiences

Literature & Fiction

This timely book shows teachers how to help students find thoughtful ways to explore and reflect on what they are reading, viewing or discussing. Offering a comprehensive view of response journals, this remarkable book serves as a flexible and multidimensional teaching tool that encourages student to use their own experiences to make what they read, write and view more meaningful.
Response Journals Revisited provides teachers with everything they need to successfully incorporate response journals into their teaching. It includes a step by step explanation of what response journals are, why and how they are used, the specific skills they develop and how they are formally evaluated.
This detailed handbook offers
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<li>a comprehensive catalog of questions to cue personal response on everything from books and read-alouds to television, movies, and media;</li>
<li>sample student responses;</li>
<li>guidelines and rubrics that will save teachers valuable classroom time;</li>
<li>ready-to-use checklists and evaluation forms for students and teachers;</li>
<li>tips on organizing student/teacher conferences;</li>
<li>a glossary of terms.</li>
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Teachers who strive to create independent learners will learn how to help students uncover deeper meaning in whatever they read, write, and view.

Response Journals Revisited: Maximizing Learning Through Reading, Writing, Viewing, Discussing, and Thinking

Pembroke Pub Ltd

The Classroom Troubleshooter provides practical, no-nonsense solutions to the problems that plague a teacher's day. This handy, easy-to-use guide incorporates a number of invaluable rubrics, checklists, templates, reference sheets, questionnaires, and student guidelines.
<ul>Included are strategies to help teachers: <li>avoid being overwhelmed by paperwork and other types of "administrivia";</li> <li>mark "smart";</li> <li>anticipate, prevent, respond to, and manage a host of discipline problems;</li> <li>develop and administer evaluation instruments for projects, research, essays, and objective-style tests;</li> <li>increase student comprehension of textbooks;</li> <li>implement and mark journal writing;</li> <li>guide talk-based learning;</li> <li>reflect on how individual teachers can impact on the overall functioning of the school.</li>
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The Classroom Troubleshooter empowers teachers to control their environment and to reclaim time and energy so that their gifts and skills can be directed into teaching and learning with their students.

Classroom Troubleshooter: Strategies for Dealing with Marking And Paperwork, Discipline, evaluation, and Learning Through Language

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