Getting Real About Student Writing

In Kelly Gallagher's new book "Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling & Mentor Texts." He focuses on this topic of why reading is a problem of how it is taught in schools. He turns his attention to writing instruction, which he believes is in a state of crisis. Gallagher states reading/writing as a subject "seems to have gotten lost in many of our schools, it has been buried with curricular pacing guides, huge class sizes, worksheets, and over-the-top testing. When writing is taught at all, it is often subject to "prescribed school discourses" that limit students' development and fail to capture their imagination." It's been estimated as many as 70 percent of students graduate from high school with inadequate writing skills. Are you one of those? Gallagher's book consists of how he teaches to write six different real-life discourses, and after that he provides a series of writing prompts. Kelly Gallagher is prepared to get you or your class back on track. Click to read more on Kelly Gallaghers New Book.