Writing–secondary grades Products

Sondra Perl , Charles Schuster

Pub Date: 3/1/2010 1
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: College-College

“Good Writers Read for Pleasure.” —Sondra Perl and Charles Schuster Sondra Perl and Charles Schuster know the importance of inspiring your writers to read. That’s what inspired them to develop a new kind of college reader—one that tells never-before-seen stories and serves them up in surprising ways. These twelve provocative essays… more

Writers at Play

Mary Adler

Pub Date: 9/1/2009 1
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6-12

“Writers at Play is a very important book—a must-read for everyone who teaches writing.” —Judith Langer    “Rather than a frill at the margins of the curriculum, Mary Adler argues forcefully that fiction writing can lie at the core of developing both language skills and depth of understanding.”  —Arthur Applebee    “Creativity… more

Come to Class

Carol Jago

Pub Date: 3/14/2008
Product Type: Paperback + Box Package + CD
Grade: 9-10

  Teaching students to write well is hard. Team teaching with a master writing teacher can make it easier—and more productive. Come to Class offers you that opportunity. In Come to Class, Carol Jago shares the writing lessons and classroom survival skills she honed over 32 years of teaching. Each lesson describes Carol’s… 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

Dream Writing Assignments

David LeCount

Pub Date: 1/8/2004 1
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 7-12

Creative questions elicit creative responses. That’s what English teacher David LeCount demonstrates in this collection of quirky, provocative writing prompts designed to release students from standardized writing assignments. More than 600 prompts serve as multidisciplinary opportunities for students to write creatively. Dream… more

Lessons That Change Writers

Nancie Atwell

Pub Date: 9/26/2002
Product Type: Paperback + 3-Ring Binder
Grade: 6-10

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 her students as “the best of the best.” The lessons fall into the… more

Nonstandardized Quests

David LeCount

Pub Date: 1/23/2002
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 9-College

Anyone who dares to teach creatively needs this book. It is a delight and a treasure for creative teaching. —Herbert Kohl, author of The Discipline of HopeNonstandardized Quests reminds us of the wonder and danger that drive all good writing. Even [the] title reminds us that writing is a “quest,” one that usually begins… 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