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Come to Class

Carol Jago

Pub Date: 3/14/2008
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 9th - 10th

  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

Thinking Out Loud on Paper

Lil Brannon , Sally Griffin , Karen Haag , Anthony Iannone , Cynthia Urbanski , Shana Woodward

Pub Date: 1/10/2008
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 4th - 12th

  Not to be confused with a daily-planner daybook that organizes time, the student daybook helps organize thoughts—across time, across subject areas. It helps learners build lasting connections between reflection and application, in-school content and out-of-school life, even last week’s lesson and this week’s.... more

Writer's-Reader's Notebook (5 Pack)

Linda Rief

Pub Date: 6/21/2007
Product Type: bundle
Grade: 5th - 12th

The Writer’s-Reader’s Notebook is essential to everything Linda Rief’s students do in her workshop classroom as literate young men and women. Far more than a place where students merely practice writing, this is where they do the work of learning. Now Linda shares her Writer’s-Reader’s Notebook with... more

50 Essential Lessons

Jim Burke

Pub Date: 11/20/2006
Product Type: PREPACK
Grade: 9th - 12th

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

Lessons That Change Writers

Nancie Atwell

Pub Date: 9/26/2002
Product Type: PREPACK
Grade: 6th - 10th

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 following... more

Breathing In, Breathing Out

Ralph Fletcher

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

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