Teaching Writing in the Middle School

Anna J. Small Roseboro has 40 years’ experience in public and private schools and she earned the National Board Certificate in Early Adolescent/English Language Arts from the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards in 1998. In 2008-9, Anna was a faculty leader at the NCTE Affiliates Leadership Conference, served as Master Teacher for the San Francisco Bay Area Teachers Center. She facilitated Early Career Educators in Leadership Institute, was awarded the California Association of Teachers of English 2009 Distinguished Service Award, in 2012-2013 served the Conference on English Leadership as mentor in their Emerging Leaders Fellowship Program, and in 2016 was presented with the NCTE Distinguished Service Award.

• ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One - Scoping Out the Year in Preview - Plan Now To Be Effective and EfficientChapter Two - Networking Socially at the Start of a School YearChapter Three -Writing to Learn Across the Content AreasChapter Four - Exploring Traditional and Contemporary GrammarsChapter Five - Telling It Like It Is: Inviting Informative WritingChapter Six – Making the Case: Persuasive WritingChapter Seven - Versing Life Together: Writing Patterned and Original PoemsChapter Eight - Entertaining Writing - The Short StoryChapter Nine - Playing It Right: Reading, Writing and Performing DramaChapter Ten - Speaking of Grammars, Media Arts and Public Speaking Chapter Eleven - Celebrating Names: A Unit about Community and IdentityAfterwardAppendixBibliography

[T]his is a practical guide for a beginning teacher to use over the course of the entire school year…. I am planning to pass this book on to one of my new middle school teachers!