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Strange Bedfellows: Surprising Text Pairs and Lessons for Reading and Writing Across Genres
What do Arnold Schwarzenegger and Barack Obama have in common? When it comes to helping students become savvy about genre, rhetoric, and language: everything. In Strange Bedfellows Carol Rawlings Miller pairs short pieces by famous writers and speakers...
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Strategic Writing Conferences: Smart Conversations that Move Young Writers Forward
Although conferences appear to be informal conversations, they are in fact highly principled teaching interactions designed to move writers along learning pathways. Used strategically, conferences can be powerful interventions that address individual...
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Study Driven : A Framework for Planning Units of Study in the Writing Workshop
No matter what grade you teach, what state your school is in, and what level of diversity is present in your classroom, students have the right to be shown real-world examples of the kinds of writing they’re asked to produce. For Katie Wood Ray,...
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Summarizing, Paraphrasing and Retelling : Skills for Better Reading, Writing and Test Taking
This is a slim, do-it-all guide that presents everything you need for teaching kids to separate out trivial items in their reading and then identify and communicate the main ideas and crucial details. Emily Kissner breaks summarization down into smaller,...
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Teaching Argument Writing, Grades 6-12
"In this book, George Hillocks teaches us not only what an argument is, but how to teach it and why we should. Essential reading for those preparing ALL students to think critically, write well, and succeed academically in both high school and college...
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Teaching Students to Write
The Dynamics of Writing Instruction series helps middle and high school teachers teach writing using a structured process approach. Teachers may spread these books throughout a multiyear English language arts program, use all six books to constitute a...
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Teaching Writers to Reflect: Strategies for a More Thoughtful Writing Workshop
Even if your writing workshop hums with the sound of productive work most days, with time carved out for sharing and reflecting, how do you know whether your students are really learning from their writing experiences, or if they’re just going...
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Teaching Writing
Teaching Writing is Lucy Calkins at her best—a distillation of the work that’s placed Lucy and her colleagues at the forefront of the teaching of writing for over thirty years. This book promises to inspire teachers to teach with renewed...
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The Classroom Essentials Series
With fresh and engaging content, books in the Classroom Essentials series bring the transformative power of foundational ideas and student-centered practices to today’s busy teachers. Each book in the Classroom Essentials series focuses on one...
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The Confidence to Write - A Guide for Overcoming Fear and Developing Identity as a Writer
Practical activities to help secondary students confront and overcome their fears and anxieties around writing. “I can’t write.” How often do we hear this every day from students at all different skill levels? What is it...
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The Confident Writing Teacher: Cultivating Meaningful Writing in Middle School
“If you are currently a member of the teaching profession, it is very likely that you were never taught to write. Shocked? Think about it. Certainly, we wrote, but what did writing instruction look like when you were a kid? Do you remember...
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The Digital Writing Workshop
Troy Hicks holds sight on good writing workshop instruction. Where others have talked about new technologies and how they change writing, Hicks shows you how to use new technologies to enhance the teaching of writing you already do. Chapters are...