Rain, Steam, and Speed: Building Fluency in Adolescent Writers

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Rain, Steam, and Speed: Building Fluency in Adolescent Writers

Gerald Fleming,Meredith Pike-Baky

Description

This book shows how adolescent students at all skill levels, including English learners, can be engaged in systematic writing practice, enabling them to communicate quickly, confidently, and thoughtfully on a variety of topics. In describing their innovative approach, the authors:

Show how to introduce timed writing exercises to build fluency and thinking skills
Provide 150 powerful writing prompts on provocative topics
Offer strategies for enabling students to overcome writing blocks
Include assessment, grading, and motivational guidance

The approach has been extensively tested by a master teacher, takes about one hour of instructional time per week, and can be used over an entire school year.

About the Author

Gerald Fleming is an award-winning teacher who has taught the San Francisco Public Schools for over thirty years. He teaches English, social studies, and journalism, and also teaches curriculum and instruction at the University of San Francisco.

Meredith Pike-Baky is a curriculum and assessment coordinator, a teacher educator, and a teacher consultant with the Bay Area Writing Project.

Features

Offers structured processes for improving writing fluency
Strengthens skills for writing on demand
Features 150 provocative writing exercises.
Includes examples of student work
Benefits all types of students, including English learners.

To Purchase this product, please visit

https://dev.store.wiley.com/en-ca/Rain%2C+Steam%2C+and+Speed%3A+Building+Fluency+in+Adolescent+Writers-p-9780787974565