Classroom teachers often feel pressure to choose between using
standards-based lessons and activities that engage their students'
creativity and encourage personal expression. In Jump Write In!,
however, the experienced writer-teachers from WritersCorps offer
numerous exercises that do both: build key standards-based writing
skills and give voice to youth.
Through poetry, fiction, personal narrative, and playwriting,
students will improve their writing skills by being invited to put
their truths on the page. Perfect for a moment of inspiration as
well as for deeper exploration, these easy-to-use and field-tested
activities engage students from a variety of ethnic, educational,
and economic backgrounds and encourage the recognition that their
voices matter. The book's eleven chapters include Dozens of
exercises accompanied by teachernotes and suggestions Links to
standards for each activity Examples of student work An overview of
the writing process fromicebreakers to editing Suggestions for
further reading
Praise for Jump Write In!
"This book provides powerful material for everyteacher's
toolbox."
--Herbert Kohl, author, teacher, and director, the Institute for
Social Justice and Education
"WritersCorps has proven, in a wide variety of educational
settings, that language arts standards and creative expression can
share the same page."
--Claudia Anderson, principal, Ida B. Wells High School, San
Francisco
"Armed with this workbook any teacher can be confident of
tapping into the magical interiors of youth and bringing this magic
to the outside world. This book made me want to race to the
page!"
--Ruth Forman, poet
"Sharing great writing by students isthe way to inspire
learning. WritersCorps lessons help keep them coming back."
--Dorothy Langlois, Ethnic andAmerican Literature Teacher, San
Francisco
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