In this timely book, literacy experts Amy Benjamin and Barbara Golub offer best practices for fortifying the writer’s workshop model with meaningful, relevant instruction in grammar.
This book helps educators improve students ability to write clear, coherent essays in response to on-demand writing prompts. While it focuses on students abilities to succeed at on-demand writing, it also promotes the teaching of writing as an expression of art and self.
Authors Benjamin and Golub explore various methods of teaching word study through implicit and explicit instruction, such as exposing students to new words through reading and using games and puzzles to enforce new vocabulary.