Write Beside Them
Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing
Penny Kittle, Conway Schools, New Hampshire
ISBN 978-0-325-01097-7 / 0-325-01097-8 / 2008 / 272pp / Paperback + DVD
Imprint: Heinemann
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Grade Level: 9-12
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—Penny Kittle
What makes the single biggest difference to student writers? When the invisible machinery of your writing processes is made visible to them. Write Beside Them shows you how to do it. It’s the comprehensive book and DVD that English/language arts teachers need to ensure that teens improve their writing.
Across genres, Penny Kittle presents a flexible framework for instruction, the theory and experience to back it up, and detailed teaching information to help you implement it right away. Each section of Write Beside Them describes a specific element of Kittle’s workshop:
- Daily writing practice: writer’s notebooks and quick writes
- Instructional frameworks: minilessons, organization, conferring, and sharing drafts
- Genre work: narrative, persuasion, and writing in multiple genres
- Skills work: grammar, punctuation, and style
- Assessment: evaluation, feedback, portfolios, and grading.
All along the way, Kittle demonstrates minilessons that respond to students’ immediate needs, and her Student Focus sections profile and spotlight how individual writers grew and changed over the course of her workshop. In addition, Write Beside Them provides a study guide, reproducibles, writing samples from Penny and her students, suggestions for nurturing your own writing life, and a helpful FAQ. Best of all, the accompanying DVD takes you right inside Penny’s classroom. Its video clips explicitly model how to make the process of writing accessible to all kids.
Penny Kittle’s active coaching and can-do attitude alone will energize your teaching and inspire you to write with your students. But her strategies, expert advice, and compelling in-class video footage will help you turn inspiration into great teaching. Read Write Beside Them and discover that the most important influence for all young writers is their teacher.
Write Beside Them debuts as the field's most comprehensive, contemporary, and practical book on high school writing. Kittle not only tells how a skillful writing teacher operates, she shows you on the accompanying DVD, with clips of kids at work in every stage of a writing workshop. And all this glorious teaching happens with real, sometimes struggling kids who remind us of our own classrooms and students. Write Beside Them is the whole package.
—Harvey Daniels
Author of Content-Area Writing and Subjects Matter
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I. Foundations 1. It’s a Wonderful Life 2. This I Believe 3. How Writing Units Work Together Student Focus: Josh II. Collecting Thinking 4. The Writer’s Notebook 5. Quick Writes III. The Opportunities in a Writer’s Workshop 6. The Opportunities in a Writer’s Workshop 7. Workshop Time 8. Closing Each Class Period Student Focus: Kelsey IV. Thinking Through Genre 8. The Art of Story 9. The Art of Persuasion 10. Seeking Balance: Writing About Literature and Writing About Life 11. Finding Form for Ideas: Blending Genres Student focus: Aaron V. Mechanics 12. Grammar, Punctuation, and What Keeps Me up at Night Student Focus: Kristen VI. Assessment 13. Leading Students to Reflection and Independence 14. In the End, What Writing Is For APPENDIX (ON DVD) Study Guide Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Teaching Writing Professional Development Student Samples of Writing You Can Use in Class as Model Texts “Of Time and Rivers” by Josh Bossie “House on the Hill” by Elizabeth Howland “To the Editor” by Logan Dwight “Unworthy Charity” by Elizabeth Howland “Three Day Trip” by Kayla Locke “Last Will and Testament” by anonymous “The Perfect—not-so-perfect—Woman” by Hattie Perkins “14 Black Birch Lane” by Shaina Procopio “Chemical Equations” by Sarah Morrison “What Boys Are Like” by anonymous “Little Pink Shoes” by Marissa Maitland Williams College Reference Letter by Kathleen Maynard “The Garden, Sisterhood, and Growing Up” by Jackie Savard “The North Country” by Sean Donovan “Collection of a Pianist” by Sarah Chant Penny Kittle Writing Used in Class During the Work on This Book “What Remains” (student focus: Josh chapter) “Combing Through” (sentence combining and in writers’ group) “What Forty Cents Can Buy You in November” (argument) “Warrant Article #7” (argument) “High School” (quick writes lesson on DVD) “Spinning Wheels” (used in narrative unit) “Yamhill Street” (used in place narrative unit) “Cynthia” Multigenre project Reproducible Forms I Use in My Workshop Qualities of Writing by Genre Writing Argument Qualities Writing Commentary (Op-Ed) Qualities Writing Narrative Qualities
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