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Real Reading, Real Writing : Content-Area Strategies
This is a story for and by real teachers. In it, two seasoned veterans recount their 23-year collaboration to find ways to get students to improve their learning in their content area subjects. It all began when Donna Topping, an elementary-trained...
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Regie Routman in Residence: Transforming Our Teaching
After a decade of leading schoolwide residencies—and with more requests than she can fill—Regie Routman has developed Regie Routman in Residence, a DVD-based literacy project that brings her demonstration teaching into your school and...
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Resourceful Writing Teacher: A Handbook of Essential Skills and Strategies
This book answers the need for a handbook on not only how to teach writing well but also what skills students need and a repertoire of strategies they can use to acquire them. Drawing on her own practice as well as the work of seminal influences, Jenny...
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Right-Answer Writing : An All-in-One Resource to Help Students Craft Better Responses
Right-Answer Writing includes four exciting resources: three slim, practical handbooks and a CD. Beginning with the first handbook, The Process and the Prompt, Ardith Davis Cole describes Right-Answer Protocol, a simple, powerful, step-by-step procedure...
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Second Grade Writers: Units of Study to Help Children Focus on Audience and Purpose
In Second Grade Writers Stephanie Parsons (author of First Grade Writers and a coauthor of Lucy Calkins’ Units of Study for Primary Writing) offers five specific units of study that help children develop a keener sense of what they can and want...
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Seeking History : Teaching with Primary Sources in Grades 4 to 6
Primary sources are real stuff and real stuff is powerful stuff. Civil War photographs. E.B. White’s drafts for Charlotte’s Web. An heirloom quilt. Birth certificates. All these evoke actual past times and events. And no matter how well...
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Self-Directed Writers: The Third Essential Element in the Writing Workshop
"It’s not surprising that schools have the power to either help or hinder students in becoming more self-directed. This book will show you how to teach, plan, and speak in ways that nurture kids to become even more self-directed during writing...
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Sentence Composing for College
With the original publication of his sentence composing series, Don Killgallon changed the way thousands of high school English teachers and their students look at language, literature, and writing by focusing on the sentence. In this expanded series,...
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Sentence Composing for Elementary School: A Worktext to Build Better Sentences
Don Killgallon’s signature sentence-composing approach to writing is rapidly becoming a part of every effective teacher’s repertoire, in middle schools, high schools, and colleges across the country. Thousands of teachers have achieved...
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Sentence Composing for High School
With the original publication of his sentence composing series, Don Killgallon changed the way thousands of high school English teachers and their students look at language, literature, and writing by focusing on the sentence. In this expanded series,...