Unlock the Power of Writing: A Step-by-Step Guide to Enhancing Critical Thinking Through Writing for All Ages and Subjects

Kwinko Kwanko: As a secondary school English teacher, I am always looking for new and fun activities to try with my pupils. This book was packed full of ideas. I have tried quite a few of these now and have found loads of activities that I'll now use as a staple in my classroom. Would highly recommend this. Great value for money and its a book I'll continue to go back to again and again.

United Kingdom on Oct 07, 2023

Daniela: This book is amazing! I used it with my students the entire time I was a teacher. I now use the skills I taught in my personal life as a law student. It's an invaluable book, and I strongly recommend it.

United States on Oct 05, 2023

Amazon Customer: I love this book. I read a lot about what the school district is not doing, but should be. I’ve always disagreed with what we’ve been trained to do when teaching writing. It never made sense to me.

United States on Aug 04, 2023

TMcCoy: This makes year 37 for me, and I have taught ELA for the entirety of my career. There are a lot of techniques and procedures in this book that I had been using for years, but this past year one of my colleagues suggested this book to me. Of course, I ordered it immediately, and I am blown away!
This book makes writing instruction so approachable, no matter what discipline you teach. The author addresses building blocks to help alleviate the monumental task of writing for students and even suggests ways for teachers to avoid the grading essays plague.
This is a must-have for teachers, no matter what grade level or class subject!

United States on Jul 30, 2023

Wayne: A very logical and straightforward way of scaffolding writing skills that can be applied in any subject.

Australia on Jul 23, 2023

G&S Mommy: Can’t wait to jump in from the beginning of the year and implement! Easy read, great examples- user friendly and informative

United States on Jun 19, 2023

sue: Useful tool for teaching.

Australia on May 15, 2023

Tina: Good for all subject areas

Australia on Apr 13, 2023

Amazon Customer: I found The Writing Revolution while searching for “content area writing” and “writing across the curriculum” resources to use in homeschooling my daughter. While some materials that are written for the classroom are hard to put into practice in a homeschooling situation, such is not the case with this book. Rather, having tried several homeschool writing curricula, and not having found anything that really “clicked” for us, I feel like I have found what I have been looking for in this book. Some of the things that this book advocates and that work well in the homeschool setting are: starting with what the student is able to do, not what they “should” be able to do according to age or grade level; using the student’s work to inform instruction; using a “gradual release of responsibility” model (I don’t remember this exact term being used in the book, but it addresses starting with modeling, then doing activities together, and gradually moving towards students being able to do things independently); and writing in the content areas to reinforce what is being learned in subject areas such as history and science, rather than having a separate writing...

United States on Jul 01, 2018

Egil Austin: Despite teaching and leading literacy over several settings for seven years, this book has truly revolutionised how I teach and lead writing across the curriculum. Ideal for teachers in a KS2 setting, and useful for those in KS3. The book provides the practical implementation of the system, whilst at the same time provides clarity on the theory.

The drills and approaches are straightforward, simple, and most importantly, very effective. In only several months it has led me to overhaul the approach at my school to sentences, paragraphs and complete texts.

Read it and implement as much of this as you wish. Results will not be long in coming.

United Kingdom on Feb 23, 2018