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Between the Commas: Sentence Instruction That Builds Confident Writers (and Writing Teachers)
For too long, sentence instruction has been heavy on correctness and terminology (as in “mind your grammar”) and light on play and experimentation. Or it has been abandoned altogether. In this lively book, Marty Brandt sets out to change all...
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Grammar for College Writing: A Sentence-Composing Approach
Across America, in thousands of classrooms, from elementary school to high school, the time-tested sentence-composing approach has given students tools to become better writers. Now the Killgallons present a much anticipated sentence-composing grammar...
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Joyful Writing in PreK: Create. Imagine. Learn.
Joyful Writing in PreK contains 125 lessons (100 writing minilessons + 25 interactive writing lessons) that spark creativity, imagination, and learning. Writing minilessons are brief, focused, explicit lessons that help children understand and...
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Teaching Writing in Small Groups
Find out how just a few minutes of purposeful, responsive teaching can have a big impact with your students. Jennifer Serravallo’s Teaching Writing in Small Groups details essential practices for optimizing groups that help you: value...
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...And with a Light Touch : Learning About Reading, Writing, and Teaching with First Graders
With its first edition, this book was immediately praised for its authentic portrayal of classroom life and learning. "It's my bible for teaching young children" and "It reads like a novel," said veteran and pre-service teachers alike...
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100-Word Stories: A Short Form for Expansive Stories
What can 100-word stories help your students understand about writing? The short answer is, everything! This flash-fiction form has become a popular structure for efficiently teaching a wide variety of literary devices, terms, and processes in a targeted...
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4 Essential Studies: Beliefs and Practices to Reclaim Student Agency
Essay. Poetry. Book Clubs. Digital Composition. Penny Kittle and Kelly Gallagher extend their work in 180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents by taking a deep dive into four essential studies. Their aim is to move beyond...
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A Community of Writers
Building on the experience and expertise of many teachers they've worked with as well as the growing literature on composing, classroom dynamics, and whole language, Zemelman and Daniels offer detailed guidance for all aspects of teaching and using...
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A Student Guide to Writing on Demand
Strategies for High-Scoring Essays Get ready to write to the prompt. Get A Student Guide to Writing on Demand and prepare for testing in a new way that: eases concerns about timed writing situations increases familiarity with the forms...
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After THE END, Second Edition
Barry Lane’s bestselling After THE END helped teachers see revision in a whole new light, and inspired a generation of students to not only embrace revision, but to realize that writingis revision. The long-awaited second...
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