ABSTRACT

This book helps educators improve students’ ability to write clear, coherent essays in response to on-demand writing prompts. While it focuses on students’ abilities to succeed at on-demand writing, it also promotes the teaching of writing as an expression of art and self. For grades 4 -12, it provides examples of responses to narrative and persuasive prompts, and provides savvy advice about what scorers look for.

chapter 1|9 pages

Introducing On-Demand Writing

part I|23 pages

The High-Stakes Essay

chapter 2|10 pages

Writing Instruction in the Age of Testing

chapter 3|6 pages

Resistance

chapter 4|6 pages

Using the Test Itself as a Teaching Tool

part II|35 pages

Rhetorical Modes

chapter 5|12 pages

Teaching Writing Through Rhetorical Modes

chapter 6|10 pages

The Narrative Prompt

chapter 7|12 pages

The Persuasive Prompt

part III|53 pages

Interventions

chapter 9|22 pages

Problem Solvers

chapter 10|7 pages

From Speech to Writing

chapter 11|9 pages

Language and Error