On Demand Writing: Applying the Strategies of Impromptu Speaking to Impromptu Writing [Pehme köide]

This guide is designed for teachers who are coaching their students for timed writing situations, such as those they face during the SAT I, ACT, and AP exams. Applying debate skills to timed writing, Williamson, an English teacher and speech and debate coach at Analy High School, provides 31 lesson plans on topics such as outlining a topic quickly, transforming inductive thinking into deductive writing, and developing introductions, paragraphs, and conclusions. Lesson plans provide lists of materials to gather before the lesson, and instructions for presenting the material, along with student handouts. Student handouts are also available to download from a web site. Tools to improve student motivation include suggestions for explaining to students why they should care about each lesson, student handouts containing questions designed to lead students to discover why each exercise is beneficial, and exchanges between a hypothetical teacher and student sprinkled throughout the book to demonstrate how to answer the "why" questions students frequently ask. Appendixes supply scoring guidelines used on the SAT I and ACT tests, plus scored student essays that can be used as examples to illustrate to students what high-, medium-, and low-scoring essays look like. The author is vice president of the California State Speech Association. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)