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Crafting Authentic Voice
A good writer has a distinctive voice. A great writer has an inimitable one. Regardless of subject or place in time or space, good and great writers share one trait: they are true to their personalities, spirits, and characters. How do they do this? How...
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Crafting Nonfiction Intermediate: Lessons on Writing Process, Traits, and Craft (3-5)
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Crafting Nonfiction: Lessons on Writing Process, Traits, and Craft
“Nonfiction writing does not need to sound like an encyclopedia. It can be richly constructed with a wide variety of sentence patterns. Craft elements and literary devices should be highlighted and employed in nonfiction selections just as...
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Crunchtime
In this eagerly-anticipated teacher resource, master teachers Gretchen Bernabei, Jayne Hover, and Cynthia Candler share writing lessons that are healthy for kids, promote lifelong literacy, and, coincidentally, will help your students blow the roof off...
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Delivering College Composition: The Fifth Canon
Invention, Arrangement, Style, Memory . . . . Delivery. Of the five rhetorical canons defined by Aristotle, Delivery is the most overlooked and most frequently undertheorized. Delivery provides a lens into the ways composition curricula is designed;...
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Energize Research Reading and Writing
"When we embrace the messy excitement of the [research] process and the drive to inspire others, we can energize our students, our instruction, and ourselves.” —Christopher Lehman Sit down with Christopher Lehman as he shares the...
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ESL Writers, 2nd Ed.: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors
Writing centers are seeing more and more kinds of ESL students. That’s why the much-loved ESL Writers (winner of the International Writing Centers Association’s Outstanding Scholarship Award for Best Book) has changed with the times to...
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Every Kid a Writer: Strategies That Get Everyone Writing
Anyone who has taught writing knows that sometimes the hardest part about teaching writing is getting students to write at all. What we sometimes forget, Kelly Boswell reminds us, is that every writer is reluctant to write at some point...
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First Grade Writers: Units of Study to Help Children Plan, Organize, and Structure their Ideas
First graders have no shortage of ideas. The hard part for them is putting thoughts together into a cohesive draft. Organizing and planning for writing defy simple description and aren’t easily modeled for students, making them challenging topics...
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Focus Lessons: How Photography Enhances the Teaching of Writing
"Writers, like photographers, are image makers." We teach our students to write using words and sentences that create a desired effect. You might encourage them to zoom in on a small moment, focus on a specific detail, or experiment with a new...
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