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Author: Kelly Gallagher
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ISBN: 1571108963

Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling and Mentor Texts

If you want to learn how to shoot a basketball, you begin by carefully observing someone who knows how to shoot a basketball. Download Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling and Mentor Texts from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. If you want to be a writer, you begin by carefully observing the work of accomplished writers. Recognizing the importance that modeling plays in the learning process, high school English teacher Kelly Gallagher shares how he gets his students to stand next to and pay close attention to model writers, and how doing so elevates his students' writing abilities. Write Like This is built around a central premise: if students are to grow as writers, they need to read good writing, they need to study good writing, and, most important, they need to emulate good writers.In Write Like This, Kelly emphasi Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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