This book provides pre-service Caribbean teachers and educators with contextually tested, robust strategies and ways of thinking about writing instruction which will improve their students’ writing proficiency. It engages with the post-colonial context of Caribbean language teaching to offer a pedagogical methodology that is distinctive in its approach to the teaching of writing within the Caribbean and its diaspora.
It offers a wealth of examples, strategies, activities and tasks that are culturally sensitive to support the practice of writing educators in secondary and post-secondary institutions, teacher educators involved in teacher preparation, students studying at the university level in the Caribbean, as well as practitioners and researchers in the practice of Caribbean approaches to the teaching of writing to students within the diaspora. Written by experts and practitioners whose content and pedagogical experience with writing instruction spans primary, secondary and tertiary level classrooms, the 14 chapters are underpinned by evidence-informed practice. The text includes authentic classroom examples as well as templates and tools for educators.
This is a key resource for Caribbean educators teaching writing across all levels, pre-service teachers and teacher educators in the Caribbean, as well as researchers and scholars in language and literacy education.
Foreword – Beverley Bryan
Preface
Introduction –Teaching Writing as Necessity and Skill –
Sandra Robinson, Victor Simpson and Krishna Seunarinesingh
Framing a Perspective of Writing with Teachers in Mind
Chapter 1
Writing Teachers: Transforming the Knowledge of Writing into the Teaching of Writing – Sandra Robinson, Victor Simpson and Krishna Seunarinesingh
Chapter 2
Becoming A Strategic Writing Teacher – Krishna Seunarinesingh
Chapter 3
Establishing a Context for Writing – Adeola Matthew
Chapter 4
Theoretical and Pedagogical Foundations of Teaching Writing – Sandra Robinson
Constructing Writing through Research, Planning and Use of Technology
Chapter 5:
Perspectives on Writing Research – Marise Butler
Chapter 6
Technology and Writing in the English Classroom –Judith Hatt and Krishna Seunarinesingh
Chapter 7
Designing Writing for Teaching: Principles and Practices – Angelina Polius
Chapter 8
Planning for Writing – Using the Unit and Lesson to Shape Writing Instruction –Desryn Collins
Building the Structure and Content of Writing
Chapter 9
Instruction in Critical Writing Elements – Victor Simpson
Chapter 10
Enabling Student Writing through Note Taking – Kelvin Quintyne
Chapter 11
Improving Writing Skills – The Mechanics – Janice Jules and Korah Belgrave
Chapter 12
Responding to Student Writing – Lynette Tyson-Noel
Supporting Students’ Writing Experience Through Practice: Strategies and Activities
Chapter 13
Writing Strategies that Work – Karen Thomas and Yvonne Alexis-Jones
Chapter 14
Writing in Response to Literature – Karen Thomas and Sharon Philip with Andrea Keizer-Bowman
Chapter 15
Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum – Janice Jules, Bernisa Roberts, Lydia Quinn and Gillian Fleary-Lazarus with Veronica Simon
Chapter 16
An Afterword: Teaching Writing for Now and Beyond
Index
Appendices
Helpful resources
Some strategies that work
Useful websites
Templates
Resources
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