| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 156 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Pt. I. Holding on in the hard : understanding kids who need to be enticed to write. Stories save -- Altered brains -- Take time -- Healing happens -- See their stories -- Getting the heart right : social media and stories -- pt. II. Setting the stage to entice students to write. What writing has to do with teaching writers -- Writing always gives more than it takes -- Everyone hates writing -- Is writing essential? -- Writing workshop is essential -- Developing faithful and fearless writers -- pt. III. Moves to entice students to write. Leaps of faith -- Cultivate a celebration mindset -- Individualizing the writing process -- Writing projects that make you want to write -- Stretch mentors to meet needs -- Simplify conferring -- Expand feedback beyond the teacher -- Tap technology |
| Summary |
In this moving, personal book, Ruth Ayres weaves together her experience as a mother, teacher, and writer. She explores the power of stories to heal children from troubled backgrounds and offers up strategies for helping students discover and write about their own stories of strength and survival. She shares her own struggles and triumphs and hard-earned lessons from raising a family of four adopted children. Her experience is invaluable to any teacher who?s met children living in poverty, in unstable households, or in fear of abuse. Ruth explores recent brain research on the way trauma changes the brain and makes a case for encouraging all students to write. She believes that all students benefit from revealing their stories, by communicating information and opinion that allows darkness to turn to light in the lives of children. In the last part of her book she offers up practical suggestions for enticing all writers, regardless of their struggles. Enticing Hard-to-Reach Writers invites you on a journey to become a teacher who refuses to give up on any student, who helps children believe that they can have a positive impact on the world, and who-in some cases-becomes the last hope for a child to heal. Book jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching -- Psychological aspects
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Composition (Language arts) -- Study and teaching -- Psychological aspects
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Creative writing -- Therapeutic use
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Education -- Biographical methods.
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Narrative therapy.
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Children with social disabilities -- Education.
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Children with social disabilities -- Education
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Creative writing -- Therapeutic use
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Education -- Biographical methods
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Narrative therapy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017039325 |
| ISBN |
9781625310910 |
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1625310919 |
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