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The English Teacher's Companion, Fourth Edition
A new companion for every English teacher “Why have I written an entirely new English Teacher’s Companion? Because to offer you anything less would suggest I had not grown, changed, or evolved these past fifteen years. I am not the same...
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The Journey Is Everything
Teaching Essays That Students Want to Write for People Who Want to Read Them "In the electric, pulsating world around us, the essay lives a life of abandon, posing questions, speaking truths, fulfilling a need humans have to know what other humans think...
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The Literacy Studio: Redesigning the Workshop for Readers and Writers
Workshop teachers struggle with time—building in two teaching sessions, one for reading and another for writing. There is just too much to do, too many transitions, and very little integration of reading and writing. To compound...
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The Next-Step Guide to Enhancing Writing Instruction
Bonnie Campbell Hill and Carrie Ekey affirm the good work you're doing, and inspire you to read further and incorporate new ideas so that you can teach writing even more effectively, intentionally, responsively, and joyfully with cutting-edge ideas in...
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Teaching Writing
Filling their book with specific how-to details, Judy Davis and Sharon Hill describe the organization of a successful yearlong writing workshop, centered on writing cycles and the writing notebook. They help teachers prepare tools, address management...
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The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Texts to Jumpstart Your Students' Thinking and Writing
Helping students put words on a page can be hard enough. “I don’t have anything to write about!” they say. And when writing does happen, how do you help them develop these ideas into more effective pieces? A powerful tool to...
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The Revision Toolbox, Second Edition: Teaching Techniques That Work
“Students need to be reminded that revision isn’t merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words and practicing strategies that make a difference in our writing.”—Georgia Heard “You...
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The Six Academic Writing Assignments: Designing the User's Journey
Writing assignments are road maps—or they should be. They guide the writer on a journey. They lay out a process, envision a destination. They are designed. As Jim Burke explains it: “What we are really doing when we create a...
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The Story of My Thinking
In their signature easy-to-implement style, Gretchen Bernabei and Dorothy Hall offer new options for teaching expository writing that more realistically match the way readers actually think and writers actually write. While many state...