Teaching Students to Write Essays That Define (The Dynamics of Writing Instruction)

These books will support teachers in their understanding of designing process-based instruction and give them both useful lesson plans and a process for designing instruction on their own that follows the design principles.-Peter Smagorinsky, Larry Johannessen, Elizabeth Kahn, and Thomas McCannThe Dynamics of Writing Instruction series helps middle and high school teachers teach writing using a structured process approach.

Teachers may spread these books throughout a multiyear English language arts program, use all six books to constitute a yearlong writing course, or repeat modified sequences from one book at sequential grade levels so students deal with that particular genre at increasing degrees of complexity.