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Everything You Need to Know to Teach Writing to Your K-6 Students

Everything You Need to Know to Teach Writing to Your K-6 Students

Author(s): Douglas J Hacker

Edition: 1

Copyright: 2023

Pages: 375

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ISBN 9781792465413

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Designed specifically for future and practicing teachers, this textbook offers a practical, research-based approach to teaching writing in the K–6 classroom. Rather than replacing educators’ existing knowledge and teaching styles, it complements and builds upon their pedagogical foundations. This textbook provides evidence-based strategies rooted in the latest writing instruction research.

 

With a clear, thoughtful structure and reflective exercises at the end of each chapter, this book encourages teachers of writing to engage deeply with the material, think critically about their instructional approaches, and develop confidence in their ability to teach writing effectively. It is not a prescriptive manual, but a flexible, adaptable resource meant to inspire student-centered instruction.

 

Ultimately, the book aims to help educators cultivate their students' writing skills and their own appreciation for writing as a powerful personal, cultural, and social tool. Whether students are just beginning their journey as writing instructors or are already in the classroom, this text offers a valuable toolkit for fostering meaningful and lasting writing experiences in young learners.

Preface
Introduction

Chapter 1 Children’s Development of Writing
Chapter 2 A Writing Process Versus Your Writing Process
Chapter 3 Implementing Evidence-Based Writing Instruction       
Chapter 4 Linking Evidence-Based Practices to Writing Theory
Chapter 5 Genres and Their Cognitive Demands 
Chapter 6 Learning-to-Write Versus Writing-to-Learn
Chapter 7 An Inclusive Approach to Writing Instruction
Chapter 8 New Literacies              
Chapter 9 Self-Regulated Writing              
Chapter 10 Revision—Writing What You Mean and Meaning What You Write
Chapter 11 Writing to Read
Chapter 12 Assessment of Writing

Douglas J Hacker

Dr. Hacker is professor emeritus at the University of Utah in the Department of Educational Psychology. As professor emeritus, he has maintained his work as program evaluator for numerous National Science Foundation grants focusing on engineering education. Dr. Hacker has published more than 140 publications in professional journals, book chapters, and professional presentations on writing and reading processes, metacognition, self-regulated learning, school reform, and program evaluation. He has two edited volumes on metacognition in education, and is author of a textbook on writing pedagogy for K-6 students. According to Google Scholar his work has been cited over 9500 times in national and international journals and books. He has been noted recently for his article in the Educational Psychologist on his metacognitive model of writing development.

Designed specifically for future and practicing teachers, this textbook offers a practical, research-based approach to teaching writing in the K–6 classroom. Rather than replacing educators’ existing knowledge and teaching styles, it complements and builds upon their pedagogical foundations. This textbook provides evidence-based strategies rooted in the latest writing instruction research.

 

With a clear, thoughtful structure and reflective exercises at the end of each chapter, this book encourages teachers of writing to engage deeply with the material, think critically about their instructional approaches, and develop confidence in their ability to teach writing effectively. It is not a prescriptive manual, but a flexible, adaptable resource meant to inspire student-centered instruction.

 

Ultimately, the book aims to help educators cultivate their students' writing skills and their own appreciation for writing as a powerful personal, cultural, and social tool. Whether students are just beginning their journey as writing instructors or are already in the classroom, this text offers a valuable toolkit for fostering meaningful and lasting writing experiences in young learners.

Preface
Introduction

Chapter 1 Children’s Development of Writing
Chapter 2 A Writing Process Versus Your Writing Process
Chapter 3 Implementing Evidence-Based Writing Instruction       
Chapter 4 Linking Evidence-Based Practices to Writing Theory
Chapter 5 Genres and Their Cognitive Demands 
Chapter 6 Learning-to-Write Versus Writing-to-Learn
Chapter 7 An Inclusive Approach to Writing Instruction
Chapter 8 New Literacies              
Chapter 9 Self-Regulated Writing              
Chapter 10 Revision—Writing What You Mean and Meaning What You Write
Chapter 11 Writing to Read
Chapter 12 Assessment of Writing

Douglas J Hacker
Douglas J Hacker

Dr. Hacker is professor emeritus at the University of Utah in the Department of Educational Psychology. As professor emeritus, he has maintained his work as program evaluator for numerous National Science Foundation grants focusing on engineering education. Dr. Hacker has published more than 140 publications in professional journals, book chapters, and professional presentations on writing and reading processes, metacognition, self-regulated learning, school reform, and program evaluation. He has two edited volumes on metacognition in education, and is author of a textbook on writing pedagogy for K-6 students. According to Google Scholar his work has been cited over 9500 times in national and international journals and books. He has been noted recently for his article in the Educational Psychologist on his metacognitive model of writing development.