Writing–elementary grades Products

Carl Anderson

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

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

50 Essential Lessons

Jim Burke

Pub Date: 11/20/2006
Product Type: Lesson Book + Book of Tools + CD-ROM
Grade: 9-12

50 Essential Lessons is the result of the lessons Jim Burke learned while asking himself how to teach his students the skills they needed to succeed in school and in the larger world. Anchored in standards shared by a range of national literacy documents, these lessons focus on the core cognitive and personal skills—reading,… more

Teaching the Qualities of Writing

Ralph Fletcher , JoAnn Portalupi

Pub Date: 5/10/2004
Product Type: paperback + cd rom + lesson cards
Grade: 3-6

A Teaching Resource that gives voice to the four essential qualities of writing. Teaching the Qualities of Writing (TQW) is a ready-to-use writing curriculum that provides you with the instruction students need to improve the quality of their writing and at the same time develops your ability to read and assess your students’… more

Breathing In, Breathing Out

Ralph Fletcher

Pub Date: 11/18/1996
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K-12

Writers both new and experienced will appreciate [Fletcher's] clear and straightforward advice on how a writer’s notebook can be used to find one’s own voice and inner truth.—KLIATTKeeping a notebook may be the single best way to survive as a writer. It encourages a greater sensitivity to your world, inside and out. It serves… more

Writing Toward Home

Georgia Heard

Pub Date: 10/16/1995
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: College-Adult

[This] is a book for the writer hidden or not so hidden in us all…It is a book for any age, to be read in little bits or all at once, and to be reread regularly.—InlandHere is a personal and compassionate book for everyone writers, poets, teachers, lovers of life, and especially those seeking to find their writing voices again… more