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Writers ARE Readers: Flipping Reading Instruction into Writing Opportunities
By Lester Laminack, Emeritus, Western Carolina University, Reba M. Wadsworth, Woodmeade Elementary School, Alabama In Writers Are Readers, the mutually supportive roles of reading and writing...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...