Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1. Sentences: The Basic Building Blocks of Writing

Chapter 2. Sentence-Expansion and Note-Taking: Getting Students to Process What They’ve Read

Chapter 3. One Step at a Time: Why Students Need to Plan Before They Write

Chapter 4. First Steps in Planning: The Single-Paragraph Outline

Chapter 5. Putting Flesh on the Bones: Revising an Outline into a Paragraph

Chapter 6. Summarizing: Mining Texts for The Essentials

Chapter 7. Moving on to Compositions: The Multiple Paragraph Outline

Chapter 8. Take a Stand: Writing Opinion, Pro/Con, and Argumentative Essays

Chapter 9. A Gauge and a Guide: Assessing Students’ Writing

Chapter 10. Putting the Revolution Into Practice: Combining Our Sequence With Your Judgment

Appendices

• A. Expository-Writing Terms
• B. Symbols and Abbreviations for Outlining
• C. The Listening Evaluation Checklist
• D. Proofreading Symbols
• E. The Revise and Edit Checklist
• F. Research Plan Time Sequence Sheet
• G. Diagnostic Rubric Models
• H. Writing Evaluation Checklist
• I. Free Writing Rubric
• J. Sample Pacing Guide, Grade 3
• K. Sample Pacing Guide, Grades 7–8

Glossary

References

Index