Prompted to Write: Building On-Demand Writing Skills, Grades 6-12

Acknowledgments.

The Authors.

PART ONE: INSTRUCTIONAL PROCESS.

1. Bridging the Testing/Teaching Gap.

2. The Prompted to Write Model: Preparing Students to Do Their Best.

3. Understanding and Teaching the Lessons.

4. Weaving the Lessons into a Year-Long Writing Program.

5. Evaluating Student Writing (and Teaching Students to Score).

6. Using the Prompts in Larger-Scale Writing Assessments.

7. Learning from the Assessment Process.

PART TWO: THE LESSONS.

Writing to Discover and Reveal.

1. A Personal Oasis.

2. A Childhood Passion.

3. Something About Me You May Not Know.

4. Something I’ll Never Forget.

5. House on Fire.

6. A Personal Hero.

7. Lucky Breaks.

8. Responding to “Boar Out There”.

9. Responding to “The Cormorant’s Tale”.

10. Here’s Something Cool!

Writing to Support a Claim.

11. Junk Food Lunches?

12. Key to Success.

13. A School Improvement.

14. Unlikely Thieves.

15. Time to Go Alternative?

Appendixes.

A. Student Exemplars.

B. Narrative Writing Strategies.

C. Persuasive Writing Pitfalls.

D. Writing Sample Form.

E. Batch Sheet Form.

F. Bibliography.

Index.