If you are a middle school ELA or high school English teacher looking to improve your writing instruction and provide meaningful and effective instructional strategies and writing activities to your students, this book, “Building Strong Writers: Strategies and Scaffolds for Teaching Writing in Secondary ELA” is for you!
I wrote this ELA professional development and instructional strategy book to help secondary ELA teachers enhance their writing instruction and build their students into strong writers. From practical classroom applications that teachers can include in their classroom that very same day to detailed explanations of effective writing strategies, this book will become your new go-to source for teaching writing in your classroom! This post contains affiliate links.
A Look Inside “Building Strong Writers”
I’ve filled this book with eleven useful chapters for teaching your students how to write and how to become stronger, more confident writers. I love the book so much, and I know you will too!
Starting with Chapter 1 in “Building Strong Writers,” I introduce a variety of helpful and effective instructional strategies for teaching writing in the secondary ELA classroom. These strategies alone help to make this one of the best and most useful professional development books for ELA.
Additional chapters review curriculum design and planning backward, and then the book makes its way through the writing process as teachers teach students that writing is a process. This book includes chapters on brainstorming, outlining, peer editing, and more!
One of my favorite chapters in this book is Chapter 5: The Three-Sentence Approach! This writing instructional strategy completely changed the way that I teach writing in the high school English classroom, and year after year, it has been proven itself to be an effective writing strategy.
By the time you are finished reading this book, you will feel empowered to begin empowering your own students to become the strong writers they were destined to be! Check out Building Strong Writers on Amazon today!
Praise for “Building Strong Writers”
An Invaluable, Professional “Mentor Text” for ELA Educators 6th-12th Grade
“27 years into teaching and this is by far one of the best professional development books I have ever read! This book was clearly written by a classroom ELA educator who can relate to all classroom ELA teachers! The layout, anecdotes and instructional information in this book is intentional, focused and relevant to all ELA educators (6th through 12 ) This book was clearly written from the perspective of a seasoned ELA educator! The chapters contain relatable and applicable strategies, skills and thoughtful planning approaches! There is so much to glean from each page of this book with regards to teaching ELA in the middle and secondary classrooms. This book is my “new Mentor” for the year!”
A Must Read!
“Building Strong Writers” by Christina Schneider is an outstanding resource for teachers of upper elementary to high school students. As an experienced educator, I found the book full of practical, examples that sparked several “aha” moments for me. The author’s responsiveness to my direct messages added immense value, clarifying any questions I had. I am eager to implement many of the book’s ideas in my classroom next year. If you teach students writing in any way- this is a must have resource! Highly recommended!”
Fantastic Resource
“Already got my copy and it’s as amazing as I knew it would be. I love how everything is broken down and really appreciate how the daily objectives and specific action steps were included. The sentence frames are also super helpful. I can’t wait to use these strategies with my students!”
My new go-to resource for writing instruction
“I’m halfway through reading and I can already tell this book is going to transform my writing instruction for the better and that I’ll be pulling it off the shelf all year long. Fantastic!”
Great resource!
“I bought the Kindle version but had to buy a paperback copy, too! I have to mark this up from cover to cover. I will use this as a guide weekly in my classroom! Useful, practical, applicable!”
More ELA PD Books to Check Out in addition to Building Strong Writers
In addition to Building Strong Writers, if you are interested in additional English language arts professional development books to read, check out my blog post entitled English Teacher PD Books: 11 Titles for ELA Teachers.
