Writing

Joy Write: Cultivating High-Impact, Low-Stakes Writing

Nothing helps writers grow like practice. But not just any kind of practice will do. You’ve got to bring the joy! In Joy Write,beloved writer and teacher Ralph Fletcher shows you how. “A writer needs wide latitude so she can bring all...

Joyful Writing in PreK: Create. Imagine. Learn.

Jumpstart to Literacy : Using Written Conversation to Help Developing Readers and Writers

All children, given the right tools and encouragement to do so, will write. This inviting little book will help you provide both. It describes a largely unknown and underutilized strategy that has achieved amazing results. Now, for the first time, Pat...

Jumpstart to Literacy : Using Written Conversation to Help Developing Readers and Writers.

Kid-Tested Writing Lessons for Grades 3-6

Daily Workshop Practices That Support the Common Core State Standards “These are the tried and true lessons I return to year after year. The lessons that students said made a difference in their writing and that will bring power and beauty to...

Learning for Real

Teaching Content and Literacy Across the Curriculum “In this book,” writes Heidi Mills, “you’ll learn how to plan for inquiry in a way that promotes literacy throughout the day and across the content areas.” With...

Learning for Real: Teaching Content and Literacy Across the Curriculum

Learning from Classmates

Using Students’ Writing as Mentor Texts "When we value kids’ writing enough to use it to teach other kids, all kids grow into stronger writers. Thanks, Lisa, for writing this important book. I needed it, teachers need it, and the field needs...

Learning from Classmates: Using Students’ Writing as Mentor Texts

Lessons from a Writer's Life

There is much in this book to inspire any writer to seek more in his or her own writing: to pay attention to sounds, smells, people, and dialogue. Because Judith’s voice is strong, offering such a real and rich invitation, my students will listen...

Lessons That Change Writers

In Lessons That Change Writers, Nancie has narrowed and deepened her conversation with teachers, to focus on the minilesson as a vehicle for helping students improve their writing. She shares over a hundred of these writing lessons which are described by...

Literate Days: Reading and Writing with Preschool and Primary Children

This is a multimedia curriculum resource for preschool, kindergarten, and first-grade teachers looking to enrich and broaden their literacy-related instructional practices. Framed by research notes and kidwatching forms, lessons present ideas for...