Come to Class: Lessons for High School Writers - Softcover

Jago, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0325012954 ISBN 13: 9780325012957

Publisher: FirstHand, 2008

Synopsis

Teaching students to write well is hard. Team teaching with a master writing teacher can make it easier-and more productive. Come to Class offers you that opportunity. In Come to Class, Carol Jago shares the writing lessons and classroom survival skills she honed over 32 years of teaching. Each lesson describes Carol's teaching moves and language and includes suggestions on pacing the lesson, setting students up for success, organizing flexible groups, and troubleshooting common classroom management problems.

Organized around five fundamental types of writing-expository writing, persuasive writing, writing about literature, narrative writing, and reflective writing-Come to Class will help you personalize your writing curriculum while at the same time it will support you as you prepare your students for district assessments.

About this title

About the Author:

Carol Jago has taught English in middle and high school for 32 years and is associate director of the California Reading and Literature Project at UCLA. She served as president of the National Council of Teachers of English and chair of the College Board's English Academic Advisory committee. Carol has published many books with Heinemann including With Rigor for All: Meeting Standards for Reading Literature; Papers, Papers, Papers; Classics in the Classroom; and Cohesive Writing: Why Concept Is Not Enough. She has also published books on contemporary multicultural authors for NCTE. Carol wrote an education column for the Los Angeles Times, and her essays continue to appear in educational journals and online forums. Carol edits California English the journal of the California Association of Teachers of English and worked on the planning committee for the 2009 National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) Reading Framework and the 2011 NAEP Writing Framework. She is a consulting author on the HMH Collections program. In 2015 Carol was awarded the International Literacy Association's Adolescent Literacy Thought Leader Award and in 2016 the CEL Exemplary Leadership Award. She has been named by the U.S. Department of Education to serve on the National Assessment Governing Board overseeing the NAEP assessments. She can be reached at cjago@caroljago.com or on Twitter @CarolJago . » Listen to an interview with Carol Jago on Education Talk Radio - 2/23/2012 (34:20)

About this edition

• Publisher: FirstHand
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0325012954
• ISBN 13: 9780325012957
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416