Teaching Basic Writing Skills provides teachers with instructional strategies for the development of written language. It offers specific techniques to add structure, coherence, and clarity to students’ expository and narrative writing.
How TBWS Works
Teaching Basic Writing Skills is a flexible, easy-to-use program for providing direct, explicit instruction in expository and narrative writing. The program is appropriate for grades K–12 in every content area, and its activities can be adjusted to varying difficulty levels and adapted for large classes, small groups, and tutorials.
What Makes Teaching Basic Writing Skills Different?
Teaching Basic Writing Skills focuses on forming a solid foundation in the skills most needed for school assignments. Its approach assumes that writing and thinking—and the organizational processes thinking involves—are tightly linked.
About the Author
Dr. Judith C. Hochman is the former Superintendent of the Greenburgh Graham Union Free School District in Hastings on Hudson, New York and Head of Windward School in White Plains, New York. She is the founder and senior faculty member of the Windward Teacher Training Institute.
What Users are Saying
Teaching Basic Writing Skills is clear, useful and effective. Dr. Hochman gives teachers and administrators material they can use immediately when they go back to their schools. The feedback on her presentations has been universally positive in both shorter and longer formats. I am delighted that a substantial group of educators, including many administrators, have been introduced to this wonderful program. I use it myself!
- Esther Klein Friedman, Ph.D., Director
Supplemental Education Services
New York City Department of Education, New York City, NY
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