Writing

Whispering in the Wind - A Guide to Deeper Reading and Writing Through Poetry

Help your students find poetry inspirationIf your students cringe at the word poetry, Whispering in the Wind is for you! In this book, master educator Linda Rief provides a cure for poetry agony. She introduces “Heart Books,”...

Whispering in the Wind: A Guide to Deeper Reading and Writing Through Poetry

Wonder of Word Study : Lessons and Activities to Help Create Independent Readers, Writers and Spellers

Full of reproducibles, example lessons, and hands-on activities, and brimming with great ideas, This book is easy to understand, and even easier to use. Lauren Berman Lucht has put everything you need at your fingertips, sharing lessons; transcripts of...

Workshop Help Desk Series

About the Workshop Help Desk series The Workshop Help Desk series is designed for teachers who believe in workshop teaching and who have already rolled up their sleeves enough to have encountered the predictable challenges. If...

Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing

This book is about teaching writing and the gritty particulars of teaching adolescents. But it is also the planning, the thinking, the writing, the journey: all I’ve been putting into my teaching for the last two decades. This is the book I wanted...

Write Now! Publishing with Young Authors

It is never too soon to start children on the road to successful writing. We can, and should, work with even the youngest of writers to begin them on the journey from scribbles to letters, to words, to sentences, to purposeful writing. Write Now! offers...

Writer's-Reader's Notebook (5-pack)

This book is essential to everything Linda Rief’s students do in her workshop classroom as literate young men and women. Far more than a place where students merely practice writing, this is where they do the work of learning. Now Linda shares her...

Writers ARE Readers: Flipping Reading Instruction into Writing Opportunities

By Lester Laminack, Emeritus, Western Carolina University, Reba M. Wadsworth, Woodmeade Elementary School, Alabama  In Writers Are Readers, the mutually supportive roles of reading and writing are made visible through the idea of...

Writing a Life: Teaching Memoir to Sharpen Insight, Shape Meaning - and Triumph Over Tests

In this text, Katherine Bomer presents classroom-tested strategies for tapping memoir’s power, including ways to help kids generate ideas to write about, elaborate on and make meaning from their memories, and learn craft from published memoirs. She...

Writing About Reading

Janet Angelillo introduces us to an entirely new way of thinking about writing about reading. She shows us how to teach students to manage all the thinking and questioning that precedes their putting pen to paper. More than that, she offers us smarter...

Writing Essentials: Raising Expectations and Results While Simplifying Teaching

What does excellent writing instruction look like and sound like? How do successful teachers get great writers who enjoy writing? Where do teachers find the time for instruction, assessment, and test prep? In this resource, Regie Routman demystifies the...

Writing in the Elementary Classroom : A Reconsideration

The educational climate for teaching writing is a lot different now than it was in the eighties when much of the groundbreaking research was first published. The contributors to Writing in the Elementary Classroom take that thinking and push it in new...