Pub Date: 11/13/2008
Product Type: Paperback + Box Package + DVD
Grade: 3-6
Although conferences appear to be informal conversations, they are in fact highly principled teaching interactions designed to move writers along learning pathways. Used strategically, conferences can be powerful interventions that address individual writing needs. Carl Anderson’s Strategic Writing Conferences is a… more
Writing to Persuade
Pub Date: 10/17/2008
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 3-8
I love this book for all it teaches us about persuasive writing and for how it strengthens our understanding of this expansive genre…. Having read it, I am wiser about teaching— and writing—persuasion. You will be, too. —Janet Angelillo Author of Writing About Reading and Writing to the Prompt Wow!… more
A Quick Guide to Reaching Struggling Writers, K-5
Lucy Calkins , M. Colleen Cruz
Pub Date: 9/24/2008
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K-5
In A Quick Guide to Reaching Struggling Writers Colleen Cruz shows how to stop struggling with writers who struggle. You’ll find effective support for students who say: I’m not a good writer; My hand hurts; I don’t know how to spell; I don’t have anything to write about; I never get to write anything I want to write; I’m done. A… more
A Quick Guide to Making Your Teaching Stick, K-5
Lucy Calkins , Shanna Schwartz
Pub Date: 9/24/2008
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K-5
Recognizing that there is a vast difference between children getting it and children holding on to what they have learned, Shanna lays out the universal principles of “stickiness” and describes how they can be used to tweak your teaching for a more lasting impact on young writers. A Quick Guide to Making Your Teaching Stick is part… more
Whole-Class Teaching
Pub Date: 1/29/2008
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 3-8
No matter your style of teaching, at critical moments throughout the school day it’s most effective to teach everyone at once. Whole-Class Teaching offers learning-centered ways to maximize entire-class instruction by creating energizing, engaging teaching that everyone will find useful. Whether you’re… more
Climb Inside a Poem
Georgia Heard , Lester Laminack
Pub Date: 11/14/2007
Product Type: Poetry Book + 2 Lesson Books
Grade: K-2
Children are natural poets. They speak poetry all day long. They say wonderful poetic gems that surprise and delight us and help us look at the world in a new way. In Climb Inside a Poem: Reading and Writing Poetry Across the Year, Georgia Heard and Lester Laminack tap into this natural inclination and demonstrate how reading… more
Spelling Strategies and Patterns
Pub Date: 11/9/2007
Product Type: Spiral Bound + CD-ROM
Grade: 2-6
Research shows that for long-term retention and real-world application spelling instruction needs to be more than the memorization of word lists. Offering an alternative to the traditional word-list approach, Sandra Wilde’s Spelling Strategies and Patterns brings joy and teaching to spelling instruction. Sandra’s… more
The Resourceful Writing Teacher
Pub Date: 10/10/2007
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 3-8
This book will be a cherished teaching companion for every teacher lucky enough to hold it. —Lucy Calkins The Resourceful Writing Teacher answers the need for a handbook on not only how to teach writing well but also what skills students need and a repertoire of strategies they can use to acquire them. Drawing on her… more
Study Driven
Pub Date: 6/19/2006
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K-8
No matter what grade you teach, what state your school is in, and what level of diversity is present in your classroom, students have the right to be shown real-world examples of the kinds of writing they’re asked to produce. For Katie Wood Ray, this foundational idea is also the beginning of an important way of approaching… more
Units of Study for Teaching Writing, Grades 3-5
Lucy Calkins , M. Colleen Cruz , Marjorie Martinelli , Mary Chiarella , Ted Kesler , Cory Gillette , Medea McEvoy
Pub Date: 5/19/2006
Product Type: Paper + CD
Grade: 3-5
For a comprehensive overview of the Units of Study for Teaching Writing series, including sample minilessons, sample videos, curricular calendars, overview presentations, frequently asked questions, and information on the companion principal’s guide and the Workshop Help Desk series visit unitsofstudy.com. Building on the teaching… more
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