Writing

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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 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...

Writing to Live: How to Teach Writing for Today's World

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...

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...

Writing to the Prompt: When Students Don't Have a Choice.

Writing Unbound

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...