The Writing Menu: Ensuring Success for Every Student

Ever bought a teacher resource with high hopes only to file it away on your shelf never to be used? Not this one. Melissa Forney's book "The Writing Menu: Ensuring Success for Every Student" is a "must have" for anyone who is involved in helping children learn how to write. I have used it to the point of it being dog earred. "The Writing Menu" is an excellent resource that takes a practical and straight-forward approach for teaching the writing process. The step-by-step lessons are presented in a logical and sequential way with many workable, classroom-tested suggestions and student pages. Since incorporating Mrs. Forney's ideas into my teaching, my students have shown marked improvement in their writing and are finally showing enthusiasm and confidence as they put their thoughts and ideas on paper. I strongly encourage anyone involved in teaching the writing process to purchase this book.

This book should be in the hand of every teacher everywhere. Melissa Forney whets the appetite and then serves up a satisfying feast of ideas, techniques, and instructions for developing young writers. Easy to read, simple to implement, "The Writing Menu: Ensuring Success for Every Student" is more than theory. It is a book you can sink your teeth into and come away satisfied. The Writing Menu provides practical applications with an understanding of the reality that no two children are alike. As children vary, so should teaching style and method to insure each is properly nourished in the fundamentals. Melissa Forney provides a full course, from appetizers to desserts. Bon a' petite

This book is the ONE book that every teacher needs in order to teach writing to reluctant writers and to 'emerging EA Poe' writers. It is easy to use--that is fundamental. Mrs. Forney has taken all of the work out of planning and organizing how and what to teach. It is is this resource that keeps one focused and on track to lead student's to excellence in writing.

The Writing Menu: Ensuring Success for Every Student, by Melissa Forney, is an awesome resource that offers fresh ideas to increase a students love for writing. Many teachers do not receive proper training on how to teach a child to write. With this book, a teacher has a guide for making writing fun and interesting for EVERY child. Best of all, a child's desire to write increases. By using activities and examples from this book in my fourth grade class, I was able to observe a substantial difference in each child's writing abilities. Regardless of a student's writing ability or grade level, this book will help you create an amazing writing program for each young author that you are training.

The title of Melissa Forney's new book on teaching writing to students K-8 means what it says, The Writing Menu: Ensuring Success for Every Student. It is a menu that provides ideas and strategies for the teacher to use to help students of all abilities. It offers you ways to set up the menu program and to monitor it. Parent involvement is built into this program which includes discussion and a contract the student fills out with the help of his/her parents. Once again Melissa Forney with this book helps you as a teacher to plan a writing program that will work with students whose learning styles are different, who don't have the same interests, or ability to stay on task for the same length of time. It is also a wonderful way to help the students become responsible for the targeted writing skills for their grade level. They can see how they grow through out the school year by marking the writing skills they have mastered on their check off sheet. There is a Targeted writing skill check list for grades K-8. No matter what your teaching style or your students' learning styles, you will find something in this book to help you and your students with their writing program.