Student writing : give it a generous reading

• Main Author: Spence, Lucy K. (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2014]
• Subjects: English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching.; Education > Teaching > Subjects > General.; Teaching of reading, writing and numeracy.; Teaching of a specific subject.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806612635
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-62396-654-6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 112 pages)

Education professionals interested in understanding student writing will want to read this book. It describes "Generous Reading," a novel method of approaching the writing of culturally and linguistically diverse students. This book addresses the increasing diversity present throughout sch...

Table of Contents:

• Responding to writing
• Generous reading method
• Insights into writing
• Speakers of other languages
• Language variation
• Writing across the curriculum
• Teachers working together
• Cuturally relevant instruction
• Language transfer
• Literary devices.