{"product_id":"youth-scribes-teaching-a-love-of-writing-9780325160153","title":"Youth Scribes: Teaching a Love of Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Let me just write already!\" says one student to another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat makes a student want to write? How can we help students with long-held aversions to writing come to view writing as an invitation to create, to become, and to belong?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Youth Scribes: Teaching a Love of Writing, R. Joseph Rodr?guez argues that when we build adolescents' scribal identities--writers with diverse abilities, backgrounds, cultures, and interests--we reveal the power they hold to practice writing that is meaningful and relevant to their lives and the world. Once students come to view themselves as scribes, they understand why their writing matters. The word scribe refers not only to the ancient practice that predates the printing of writing and the creation of manuscripts and maps, but also to modern forms of communication that call for editing, transcription, and interpretation to show understanding across various audiences, cultures, disciplines, modes, and situations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive guiding principles for writing as a scribal act provide a framework that includes: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow to help students understand their scribal roles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow to support youth scribes to tell their stories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow to maintain scribal cultures of writing with inquiry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow to teach students to write forever and across audiences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYouth Scribes includes selections from literary works that complement the habits of youth scribes, while \"A Scribe in Action\" microessays by master teachers and authors demystify scribal identities, acts, and behaviors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdolescents want to write from their lived experiences. They want to serve as interpreters and translators of their cultures, expressing themselves on the page to hear themselves and to be heard, seen, and understood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs teachers, we can guide our students to a love of writing that is essential, just, necessary, and timeless. Youth scribes. Write on.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Heinemann Educational Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50912163791122,"sku":"9780325160153","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5fb54549-1d6e-4aa3-a87a-263b69304ad6.jpg?v=1738765922","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/youth-scribes-teaching-a-love-of-writing-9780325160153","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}