Improving Your Students' Descriptive Writing, Grades 6-12

This video training program gives teachers immediately usable, practical tools and techniques to motivate and support middle and high school students in their growth as descriptive writers.

*Includes a comprehensive video training resource guide

Viewers learn how to:

• ensure that students incorporate rich sensory images into their descriptive writing
• stretch students as writers using engaging activities, excellent models, and unique rubrics
• help students generate topics that connect their writing to their own lives
• create a unique writing workshop in your classroom that results in more descriptive, more exciting student writing
• hold students accountable for descriptive writing that has style as well as excellent structure and correct language usage
• effectively conference with students - without losing days of class time in the process
• teach descriptive writing in a way that takes students well beyond traditional levels of expectation

Strengthening Your Students' Writing Skills By Teaching Smarter, Not Harder, Grades 6-12

Viewers observe a myriad of practical strategies that help students revise and extend their writing, improve their grammar, and increase the sophistication of their written work -- all without increasing the time teachers spend grading papers.

*Includes a comprehensive training video resource guide

Viewers learn how to:

• boost each student's writing competency with high-impact, student-interactive rubrics
• design innovative writing practice activities that engage and benefit all students
• help students improve their grammar and language mechanics - and see the results in their writing
• establish peer editing routines that really work
• decrease teachers' paper load while actually assessing students' writing more frequently
• give students the literary tools they need in order to effectively edit and revise their own writing
• increase students' writing confidence, skills, and achievement