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Up Close (DVD): Teaching English Language Learners in Writing Workshops
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Up Close (DVD): Teaching English Language Learners in Writing Workshops 2008

by Hartman, Amanda; Calkins, Lucy

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From the publisher

In our increasingly diverse classrooms, teachers are regularly called to teach writing and English.

In Up Close Amanda Hartman, a staff developer with the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, models ways to confer and teach English language learners of varying writing and speaking abilities. Eleven live-from-the-classroom videos, supported by optional voice-over coaching commentary, show practical ways to:

  • scaffold language and writing skills in ways that help young writers move from social language to more academic language
  • introduce classroom routines that build continuity and collaboration
  • implement strategies that help all students approximate written and spoken English to the best of their ability.

By modeling instruction that supports all students in writing the stories of their lives, Up Close will build your confidence in working with children who speak languages other than English.

For a comprehensive overview of the Units of Study for Teaching Writing series, including sample minilessons, videos, frequently asked questions and more, visit UnitsofStudy.com/k5writing and UnitsofStudy.com/middleschoolwriting.

Details

  • Title Up Close (DVD): Teaching English Language Learners in Writing Workshops
  • Author Hartman, Amanda; Calkins, Lucy
  • Binding unknown
  • Edition DVD
  • Publisher FirstHand
  • Publication date 2008-12
  • ISBN 9780325008608

About the author

Amanda Hartman, Deputy Director for Primary Literacy at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University, heads up TCRWP's K - 2 reading, writing, and coaching institutes, and presents at conferences around the world. Amanda is the author or coauthor of books in the Units of Study for Teaching Reading series, the Units of Study in Opinion, Information, and Narrative Writing series, and the Units of Study in Phonics series. She has also authored the video, Up Close: Teaching English Language Learners in Writing Workshops and is the coauthor of One-to-One: The Art of Conferring with Young Writers (all published by Heinemann).

Lucy Calkins is the Founding Director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University. For more than thirty years, she has led the Project in its dual functions as a think tank, developing state-of-the-art teaching methods, and a provider of professional development, supporting hundreds of thousands of teachers, principals, superintendents, and policy-makers across the country and around the world. Lucy is the author or coauthor - and series editor - of the reading, writing, and phonics Units of Study series, which are integral to classroom life in tens of thousands of schools around the world. In addition, she has authored scores of professional books and articles. Lucy is also the Robinson Professor of Children's Literature at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she co-directs the Literacy Specialist Program. Her latest professional books include Teaching Writing and Leading Well. Visit UnitsofStudy.com Order Resources by Lucy Calkins

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