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Sentence Composing for Middle School

With the first edition of his book, 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 revised edition, Killgallon presents the same...

Sentence Composing for Middle School.

Short Texts, Big Impact

In this teacher-friendly resource, Kim Carlton helps you experience instructional wins each day by using short texts in the classroom. Divided into two main sections, short reading strategies and short writing strategies, this book provides...

Short Texts, Big Impact: 35 Strategies for Strengthening Reading and Writing Skills

To work with young children is to constantly expect the unexpected. Tough questions are part of early childhood educators’ regular interactions with children and families. Based on children’s actual questions, Big Conversations with Little...

Small-Group Writing Conferences: How to Use Your Instructional Time More Efficiently

Small-Group Writing Conferences shows why small groups work. And how they can boost your instructional effectiveness. You’ll compliment and coach more students through the writing process each day. You’ll focus on explicitly teaching...

Smart Writing - Practical Units for Teaching Middle School Writers

“Having powerful reasons to write and a teacher who motivates— a teacher who’s tuned into the emotional and academic needs of young adolescents—is a tough order. But it can be done and it makes all of the difference to...

Snapshots : Literacy Minilessons Up Close

Linda Hoyt covers oral, guided, and independent reading, as well as writing, providing more than 170 minilessons for understanding individual words and whole texts, fiction, and nonfiction. For each “Snapshot,” Linda guides you through a...

So, What's the Story?

Get the whole story on teaching narrative writing “Narrative can foster a new understanding of self and others, and help people solve real problems together. In short narrative empowers people. This makes it vitally important to helping students...

Story Matters: Teaching Teens to Use the Tools of Narrative to Argue and Inform

When we read a nonfiction text, what is the difference between one that keeps us interested and one that merely informs? Especially when the topic may be a bit, well, dry? The difference is narrative. The writer who threads a story throughout her text...

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