Mastering Short-Response Writing Claim It! Cite It! Cement It!

Build confident, capable writers who own the concrete skills necessary to excel at composing evidence-based expository or argumentative short responses. In order to succeed on a wide range of writing assignments and assessments that call for writing to a prompt, students must control the content and mechanics of a logically structured, grammatically correct paragraph. California Teacher of the Year award winner and celebrated trade author Alan Sitomer outlines the Triple C writing system— CLAIM IT! CITE IT! CEMENT IT! - a sequence of instructional steps that helps students concisely and convincingly respond to an on-demand prompt. Mastering Short-Response Writing is a particularly effective instructional tool for raising the skill sets of low-performing writers in grades 3 and up.

Alan Lawrence Sitomer is California's 2007 Teacher of the Year. In addition to being an inner-city high school English teacher and professor in the Graduate School of Education at Loyola Marymount University, Sitomer is a nationally renowned speaker specializing in engaging reluctant readers. He received the 2004 award for Classroom Excellence from the Southern California Teachers of English and the 2003 Teacher of the Year honor from California Literacy. Other recent honors for Sitomer include being named Educator of the Year by Loyola Marymount University (2007) and Innovative Educator of the Year by the Insight Education Group (2008).
Mr. Sitomer has also authored four young adult novels published by Disney that include The Hoopster, Hip-Hop High School, Homeboyz, and The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez.
The American Library Association named Homeboyz a Top Ten Book of the Year 2008, giving it the prestigious ALA Quick Pick Recognition for young adult novels that best engage reluctant readers.
Sitomer is also the author of Hip-Hop Poetry and the Classics, a text being used in classrooms across the United States to illuminate classic poetry through hip-hop in order to engage disengaged students in both poetry and academics.
Learn more about Sitomer as well as tap into the host of free educational resources he provides at www.AlanSitomer.com