Writing for Real: Strategies for Engaging Adolescent Writers

Getting adolescents to love writing is one of the most difficult tasks a teacher faces. But for nearly twenty years, something miraculous happened in an eighth-grade classroom on Long Island: not only did adolescents learn to love to write, they also learned how to write effectively and eloquently in a wide range of genres for multiple audiences.

In Writing for Real,Ross Burkhardt offers a wealth of writing strategies--collected over his career as a classroom teacher and key fi…