Sparklers: High Scoring Test Essays and What They Teach Us

Sparklers: High Scoring Test Essays and What They Teach Us

Gretchen Bernabei and Judy Reimer have collected high scoring student test essays from 4th, 7th and 10 grades. Read these essays as models for your students and try the 30 lessons Gretchen and Judy have included to show your students that the best writing is not formulaic and the best writers have something to say. Gretchen Bernabei's teaching career spans more than 25 years and counting. She currently teaches English at Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio, Texas. Gretchen has shared her experience with other teachers through seminars, journal articles and books, offering field-tested techniques for teaching writing. Her The Good Writer s Kit for Hampton-Brown/National Geographic is a multi-component program for inspiring adolescent writers. Other recent publications include Why We Must Run with Scissors (with Barry Lane) and Reviving the Essay: Teaching Structure without Formula. She is also the author of Lightning in a Bottle, a program featuring photographs on CD-ROM used to prompt and guide student writing. She contributed the chapter, The School Essay: Tracking Movement of the Mind in Teaching the Neglected R : Rethinking Writing Instruction in Secondary Classrooms. She has published two anthologies of high-scoring student TAKS essays entitled Sparklers: High Scoring Test Essays and What They Teach Us and More Sparklers. Her most recent project is Crunchtime: Lessons to Help Students Blow the Roof Off writing Tests and Become Better Writers in the Process, published by Heinemann. In addition, Gretchen is a much sought-after presenter for workshops and staff-development seminars across the United States. Used Book in Good Condition