Books

The Successful High School 
Writing Center

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This book highlights the work of talented writing center teachers who share practices and lessons learned from today's most important high school writing centers. The authors offer innovative methods for secondary educators who deal with adolescent literacy, English language learners, new literacies, embedded professional development, and differentiated instruction. 

From the Foreword...
"The Successful High School Writing Center is a book that holds transformational power. It is an immediately useful book, yes, but also a critical collection imbued with theory-to-practice models that address our marginalized students and their teachers." —Richard Kent

A Guide to Creating Student-Staffed
Writing Centers, Grades 6-12, Revised

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The 2017 edition... A how-to and why-to book for middle school and high school educators, this award-winning book provides a complete toolkit of materials for creating and maintaining a student-staffed writing center in grades 6-12. 

From The National Writing Project...
"Kent's book provides an answer to the call of the National Commission on Writing to expand and improve writing instruction. His solution: Create a writing center. He shows how a writing center can become a catalyst for students—both editors and clients—to develop exciting "professional" relationships; for teachers to enter into conversations and reflection about their writing instruction; and for schools to create a climate for writing improvement." —Stephen Gordon

The Longman Guide to Peer Tutoring

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Grounded in current writing center theory and practice, The Longman Guide to Peer Tutoring  provides students with a comprehensive introduction to effective tutoring. Throughout the book, readers hear the voices of tutors and writers in first-person peer tutor accounts, reflective essays, and transcripts from actual sessions. Within each chapter, techniques, models, and exercises provide instruction appropriate for any level of tutoring.

A Tutor's Guide: 
Helping Writers One to One

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This book addresses the practical realities of today's writing centers, taking a closer look at the most important issues facing writing tutors and the students who confer with them. A Tutor's Guide, second edition, provides access to the professional conversation that surrounds writing-center practices, offering a concrete sense of what tutoring sessions are really like, who uses them, and how to maximize their effectiveness. 

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