Beyond the Five Paragraph Essay

This book should be required reading for any secondary English and/or social studies teacher. It is written by two teachers who know their stuff! Kimberly Hill Campbell and Kristi Latimer have crafted a professional text chuck full of ideas for reading and writing, appendixes of forms and pass-outs for teachers to give to kids, a gazillion secondary book ideas, and more. They stole my quote ( which is quite alright) of "Read like a writer and Write like a reader." An entire chapter is devoted to reading like a writer. But understand, this book is more than just a sermon of anti formulaic writing. It takes this philosophy one step further with specific ideas of how to get your students out of the 5 paragraph mold! Available from Stenhouse, this book needs to be in the hands of everyone who trying to improve student writing!