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Writing a Life: Teaching Memoir to Sharpen Insight, Shape Meaning - and Triumph Over Tests

In this text, Katherine Bomer presents classroom-tested strategies for tapping memoir’s power, including ways to help kids generate ideas to write about, elaborate on and make meaning from their memories, and learn craft from published memoirs. She...

Writing a Life: Teaching Memoir to Sharpen Insight, Shape Meaning - and Triumph Over Tests.

Writing About Reading

Janet Angelillo introduces us to an entirely new way of thinking about writing about reading. She shows us how to teach students to manage all the thinking and questioning that precedes their putting pen to paper. More than that, she offers us smarter...

Writing About Reading: From Book Talk to Literary Essays, Grades 3-8

Janet Angelillo introduces us to an entirely new way of thinking about writing about reading. She shows us how to teach students to manage all the thinking and questioning that precedes their putting pen to paper. More than that, she offers us smarter...

Writing Essentials: Raising Expectations and Results While Simplifying Teaching

What does excellent writing instruction look like and sound like? How do successful teachers get great writers who enjoy writing? Where do teachers find the time for instruction, assessment, and test prep? In this resource, Regie Routman demystifies the...

Writing Essentials: Raising Expectations and Results While Simplifying Teaching - 9780325006017

Writing in the Elementary Classroom : A Reconsideration

The educational climate for teaching writing is a lot different now than it was in the eighties when much of the groundbreaking research was first published. The contributors to Writing in the Elementary Classroom take that thinking and push it in new...

Writing in the Elementary Classroom : A Reconsideration.

Writing Minilessons

The interactive writing and writing minilessons in this book serve as a guide to a meaningful, systematic approach to literacy learning. When you surround children with literacy activities and print, provide them with time to write, encourage their...

Writing on Demand for the Common Core State Standards Assessments

What will students be asked to do when faced with the writing tasks on the Common Core State Standards assessments?  What are the instructional shifts teachers will need to make so that students can understand and master them?  Kelly...

Writing on Demand for the Common Core State Standards Assessments - 9780325050850

Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone

If genre study isn’t in your curriculum and standards documents, it’s likely to be soon. But which genres are the most useful for students to study? And how do you find time to cover them all? Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone answers these...