Engaging Writers with Multigenre Research Projects

A Teacher's Guide

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Literacy, Journalism, Education & Teaching, Teaching, Teaching Methods
Cover of the book Engaging Writers with Multigenre Research Projects by Nancy Mack, Teachers College Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Nancy Mack ISBN: 9780807774045
Publisher: Teachers College Press Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Nancy Mack
ISBN: 9780807774045
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint:
Language: English

Multigenre research projects affirm students’ home cultures while developing important academic skills consistent with the Common Core State Standards in reading and writing. This book will guide teachers in assigning, scaffolding, and assessing multigenre research assignments, including how to choose a topic, pace the work, and keep writers on track to achieve specific goals. Chapters are arranged by topic with each containing a description of the educational rationale for the topic, an introductory activity that serves as an inspiration for students in selecting a topic, and field-tested minilessons with step-by-step instructions. All the traditional elements of a research paper—quotations from experts, works cited, explanation, synthesis, and analysis—are brought to life as students animate information with emotion and imagination. An additional chapter describes how teachers have adapted this project for other subjects, such as social studies, science, and literature.

Book Features:

  • Prompts focused on home culture, inclusive model texts, and support for diverse language proficiencies.
  • Correlations between writing skills and the Common Core State Standards, includingacademic citationandreading historical documents and other nonfiction texts.
  • Practical management strategies for teaching large writing projects, including prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading, and publishing.
  • Publication options that include everything from paper-crafting to multimodal composition.
  • A companion website with downloadable handouts and additional teaching strategies.

“Engaging Writers with Multigenre Research Projects is pedagogically groundbreaking, signaling a critical and principled shift in our understanding of what it means to teach research in the writing classroom. Mack’s approach heralds the beginning of a new era, one that insists on relevancy as the cornerstone to effective teaching and a deep acknowledgment that students bring with them to the classroom valuable resources, experiences, and well-developed literacies—the necessary context for engaging in meaningful research and substantive writing.”
#8212;Jacqueline Preston, assistant professor, Utah Valley University

“In Engaging Writers with Multigenre Research Projects Nancy Mack is both a scholar and an experienced teacher just down the hall who generously shares strategies, rationale, and teaching tips. You’ll find insightful discussions about the form and function of genres, minilessons to launch students’ writing, and advice about research, feedback, and assessment of projects that meld fact and imagination. She accomplishes this through clear, uncluttered writing that is at once practical and provocative. Engaging Writers with Multigenre Research Projects will help you support and stretch your students. It did for me.”
Tom Romano, John Heckert Professor of Literacy, Miami University

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Multigenre research projects affirm students’ home cultures while developing important academic skills consistent with the Common Core State Standards in reading and writing. This book will guide teachers in assigning, scaffolding, and assessing multigenre research assignments, including how to choose a topic, pace the work, and keep writers on track to achieve specific goals. Chapters are arranged by topic with each containing a description of the educational rationale for the topic, an introductory activity that serves as an inspiration for students in selecting a topic, and field-tested minilessons with step-by-step instructions. All the traditional elements of a research paper—quotations from experts, works cited, explanation, synthesis, and analysis—are brought to life as students animate information with emotion and imagination. An additional chapter describes how teachers have adapted this project for other subjects, such as social studies, science, and literature.

Book Features:

“Engaging Writers with Multigenre Research Projects is pedagogically groundbreaking, signaling a critical and principled shift in our understanding of what it means to teach research in the writing classroom. Mack’s approach heralds the beginning of a new era, one that insists on relevancy as the cornerstone to effective teaching and a deep acknowledgment that students bring with them to the classroom valuable resources, experiences, and well-developed literacies—the necessary context for engaging in meaningful research and substantive writing.”
#8212;Jacqueline Preston, assistant professor, Utah Valley University

“In Engaging Writers with Multigenre Research Projects Nancy Mack is both a scholar and an experienced teacher just down the hall who generously shares strategies, rationale, and teaching tips. You’ll find insightful discussions about the form and function of genres, minilessons to launch students’ writing, and advice about research, feedback, and assessment of projects that meld fact and imagination. She accomplishes this through clear, uncluttered writing that is at once practical and provocative. Engaging Writers with Multigenre Research Projects will help you support and stretch your students. It did for me.”
Tom Romano, John Heckert Professor of Literacy, Miami University

More books from Teachers College Press

Cover of the book Diversity and Education by Nancy Mack
Cover of the book Dewey's Laboratory School by Nancy Mack
Cover of the book Leading for Powerful Learning by Nancy Mack
Cover of the book Exploring Mathematics Through Play in the Early Childhood Classroom by Nancy Mack
Cover of the book Storytime by Nancy Mack
Cover of the book Uncomplicating Fractions to Meet Common Core Standards in Math, K–7 by Nancy Mack
Cover of the book An Educator's Guide to STEAM by Nancy Mack
Cover of the book Ability, Equity, and Culture by Nancy Mack
Cover of the book Writing Instruction That Works by Nancy Mack
Cover of the book Streetsmart Schoolsmart by Nancy Mack
Cover of the book The Having of Wonderful Ideas and Other Essays on Teaching and Learning, 3rd Ed. by Nancy Mack
Cover of the book A Call to Creativity by Nancy Mack
Cover of the book Eyes on Math by Nancy Mack
Cover of the book Private Enterprise and Public Education by Nancy Mack
Cover of the book The Colors of Learning by Nancy Mack
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy