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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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