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Writing Minilessons
The interactive writing and writing minilessons in this book serve as a guide to a meaningful, systematic approach to literacy learning. When you surround children with literacy activities and print, provide them with time to write, encourage their...
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Writing on Demand for the Common Core State Standards Assessments
What will students be asked to do when faced with the writing tasks on the Common Core State Standards assessments? What are the instructional shifts teachers will need to make so that students can understand and master them? Kelly...
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Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone
If genre study isn’t in your curriculum and standards documents, it’s likely to be soon. But which genres are the most useful for students to study? And how do you find time to cover them all? Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone answers these...
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Writing Pathways
Performance Assessments and Learning Progressions, Grades K-8 “This assessment system makes progress in writing as transparent, concrete, and obtainable as possible and puts ownership for this progress into the hands of learners. This system of...
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Writing to Persuade: Minilessons to Help Students Plan, Draft, and Revise, Grades 3-8
Writing to Persuade is your no-nonsense guide to teaching persuasive writing. It’s filled with ready-to-use teaching for each stage of the writing process. Karen Caine packs her book with 6 units and 59 minilessons—and great advice on how to...
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Writing to the Prompt: When Students Don't Have a Choice
In the groundbreaking Writing to the Prompt, Janet Angelillo demonstrates how to apply the best practices you already know to help students succeed in the uncertain and challenging environment of on-demand writing–without abandoning your writing...
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Writing Unbound: How Fiction Transforms Student Writers
In Writing Unbound, Tom Newkirk argues that as a teaching profession, we shoot ourselves in the foot when it comes to writing. We fail to take advantage of a huge opportunity that is before us. That opportunity is fiction writing.Consider this:...
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Writing Workshop : The Essential Guide
Is the writing workshop the only way to teach writing? No. There are a variety of approaches or programs, but none of them matches the writing workshop when it comes to growing strong writers. That's why, despite the pressures of testing, the writing...
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Youth Scribes: Teaching a Love of Writing Now
Students just want to write if they are invited and permitted to do so—by and with their teacher in conversation. In Youth Scribes: Teaching a Love of Writing Now, teachers are guided to see students as scribes with diverse abilities, backgrounds,...