Listen to This: Developing an Ear for Expository

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 372.623044 EAN: 9780929895192 ISBN: 0929895193 Label: Maupin House Publishing Manufacturer: Maupin House Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 119 Publication Date: 1997-06-01 Publisher: Maupin House Publishing Studio: Maupin House Publishing
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Editorial Reviews: Help your students develop an aural sense of good expository writing. Read a short essay to your class, then teach the content of writing with the help of teaching notes and an expository primer. Includes 18 writing samples for different grade levels: magazine articles, letters to the editor, poems, essays and process descriptions. A wonderful enhancement to your writing process workshop. By the author of Building a Writing Community and Teaching the Youngest Writers.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Improving Expository Writing by Using Models Comment: Students generally prefer writing narration (stories) to writing exposition (explanation). Not surprisingly, they also perform better when writing narration as opposed to exposition. In her foreword to _Listen to This: Developing an Ear for Expository_ author Marcia S. Freeman suggests that if we read well-written expository pieces to students and help them listen for the characteristics and techniques that make those pieces successful, students will develop an ear for the genre and improve their expository skills dramatically. _Listen to This_ is helpful for teachers and students alike. It comprises "An Expository Writing Primer" plus eighteen read-aloud samples in various expository and persuasive genres. The primer discusses such "target skills" as function, organization, focus, clarity, beginnings, endings, and transitions. Freeman gets practical and specific, giving examples of various organizational schemes, different kinds of supporting details, strategies to make writing lively, etc. Each of the read-aloud samples is followed by a brief analysis, calling attention to strategies that contribute to the passage's success. The samples included in _Listen to This_ are intended only as a beginning, however. Freeman provides lists of books and periodicals where educators (grades 4-12) can find an endless supply of expository samples. Three appendices provide tips and additional organizational strategies. While Freeman directs her book toward educators, her explanations are short enough and clear enough that I would not hesitate to put this book directly into the hands of students (4th grade and older). I spent hours looking for a book that models expository writing for middle school students. _Listen to This_, which greatly exceeds my expectations, made the search worthwhile. Customer Rating: Summary: Listen to This is a Fabulous Classroom Addition Comment: Listen to This: Developing and Ear for Expository by Marcia S. Freeman provides teachers and students with many approaches to reading and writing expository text. From creating dynamic introductions and conclusions to expanding support and effectively organizing text, this little book provides short lessons that enhance the teaching of writing at most grade levels. I used the book extensively in an 8th grade writing workshop. Now that I'm retired from the classroom, I use it to train teachers of writing. Customer Rating: Summary: Developing an Ear for Expository Comment: This is a great book for teachers of all grade levels. Many times, teaching resources dealing with reading and writing are too elementary for middle and high school teachers to use. This book gave great examples and strategies for teachers to use with their students of all grade levels. I am a high school teacher and found this book exceptional. Customer Rating: Summary: Mini writer's course Comment: This book should be the textbook for "Teaching Writing" the course I wish I'd had in college. I only wish I could have found this book when I first started teaching in the primary grades. This book sums up the skills a teacher should include in teaching writing. Middle and high school teachers will find this book very appropriate for their students, too. This book will even be helpful to me in my writing for graduate work. I feel like I finally have a grasp on the "whole picture" of writing. Other books by this author are equally good. I've read "Teaching the Youngest Writers," which is especially good for kindergarten and first grade teachers. Customer Rating: Summary: Please do "Listen to This" Comment: Exact and precise. The best short book on how to teach writing I've seen. I'm a literacy teacher and I ordered a copy for all 50 of my classroom and special teachers. More Reviews