Writing

Nonfiction for High School: A Sentence-Composing Approach

Don and Jenny Killgallon's sentence-composing approach helps students all across America develop into more proficient and sophisticated writers. Now in this powerful worktext, the Killgallons use their highly effective method to help students become...

Nonfiction for Middle School: A Sentence-Composing Approach

Don and Jenny Killgallon's sentence-composing approach helps students all across America develop into more proficient and sophisticated writers. Now in this powerful worktext, the Killgallons use their highly effective method to help students become...

Nonfiction for Middle School: A Sentence-Composing Approach.

Novel Perspectives: Writing Minilessons Inspired by the Children in Adult Fiction

For the first time, Shelley Harwayne shares her own writing minilessons with you. Combining her passion for reading adult literature with her commitment to supporting students’ efforts to produce powerful and effective writing, Harwayne presents...

Nurturing Informed Thinking: Reading, Talking, & Writing Across Content-Area Sources

In today’s world, the importance of teaching students to analyze different sources on a particular topic has never been greater.   Students need to be able to connect ideas, weigh viewpoints, and balance differing perspectives. “We...

One to One: The Art of Conferring with Young Writers

In an effective writing workshop, young children grow in leaps and bounds, and within just a few months, the changes in their written products can dazzle you. And after 30 years of studying her students’ growth in the writing workshop, Lucy Calkins...

Phonics, Naturally: Reading & Writing for Real Purposes

Children are incredible learners; even before arriving at school, they deftly absorb and interconnect the symbols and sounds of their world. In Phonics, Naturally, teacher-researcher Robin Campbell explores how K-1 teachers can extend this innate ability...

Plagiarism: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It

You dread confronting students who have plagiarized. But every year you have to. By the time you detect a simple citation mistake or a research misdemeanour, it's too late. The right prevention strategy can reduce or eliminate the incidence of plagiarism...

Power of Grammar: Unconventional Approaches to the Conventions of Language

Grammar is the gatekeeper to a culture of power, yet it is also the power behind the startling beauty and robustness of the English language. In The Power of Grammar, Mary Ehrenworth and Vicki Vinton show you how these two notions of power can help your...

Project-Based Writing.

Questions, Claims, and Evidence: The Important Place of Argument in Children's Science Writing

Questions, Claims, and Evidence presents a new approach to science teaching that engages students fully by linking literacy and inquiry. With it you’ll replace the lab reports of traditional science teaching with the writing of scientists searching...

Read Write Teach

Choice and Challenge in the Reading-Writing Workshop Veteran teacher and author Linda Rief has inspired thousands of practitioners across the nation to lead adolescent students on a journey to becoming lifelong readers and writers. ...