Writing Without Boundaries: What’s Possible When Students Combine Genres
Suzette Youngs
144 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0325010412
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Language: English
Publish: March 13, 2007
In Writing Without Boundaries you’ll find out how to unlock this potential in all your students as they discover what it means to write with purpose.
Writing Without Boundaries gives you everything you need to get started teaching multigenre writing. Suzette Youngs and Diane Barone demonstrate why it works, providing the rationale, the research, and examples of completed student work. Then they take you inside classrooms to show how they and other teachers implement multimodal papers and how these lessons in topic selection, organization, audience, planning, and presentation will forever change how primary and intermediate students approach writing. You’ll discover how the writing workshop model can help you coordinate the efforts of your whole class even while you support each student in selecting from more than 60 genres to communicate their interests.