Kelly Gallagher

"Describes strategies for teaching writing to adolescents, including teaching the reasons writing is important, meeting student needs in learning writing, modeling good writing by the teacher, using real-world models of writing, giving students choice, writing for authentic, real-world purposes, and assessing student writing"--Provided by publisher.

Teaching Adolescent Writers

Melissa Palmer

I found Gallagher's books with Penny Kittle an easier flowing read than this one but it has good strategies for teaching writing. I enjoyed hearing him speak this past fall at our state English conference.

Jeni Enjaian

I absolutely loved this book and will be including it as a resource for future teaching both in the immediate future and years to come, as long as I teach English and likely even if I transition to teaching history as I desire.
After attending a symposium at which Gallagher presented about this very topic, several of the topics he presented in the conference and in this book spent a little under a year simmering in the back of my brain. I, then, this current school year, took the first step towards really teaching writing by transforming my warm up from rote stem work to a writer's journal. My grand picture/goal has not materialized. I had hoped to use this as a platform for increasing my students' writing fluency yet only writers already inclined, have ever written more than the required five lines. 
After reading this book, I already have a ton of ideas on how to improve this and hope to take those into this second semester and beyond.
I highly recommend this book for all teachers, especially those who teach English.

Teaching Adolescent Writers

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