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Introduce the Qualities of Writing

Ralph Fletcher , Joann Portalupi

Pub Date: 10/5/2010
Product Type: PREPACK
Grade: 3rd - 6th

“Our goal is to support and develop your professional skill as you make continual decisions about what and how to teach. It's our hope that TQW will make your classroom hum with writing!” —JoAnn Portalupi and Ralph Fletcher Learn how to improve your students’ writing and how JoAnn Portalupi and Ralph Fletcher introduce students... more

Strategic Writing Conferences

Carl Anderson

Pub Date: 11/13/2008
 Product Type: PREPACK
Grade: 3rd - 6th

  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

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 for the Writer's Notebook

Ralph Fletcher , Joann Portalupi

Pub Date: 11/14/2005
 Product Type: Paperback + Lesson Cards + audio CD
Grade: 3rd - 6th

Writer's notebooks can be powerful assets for any writing teacher. They provide a high-comfort, "hot-house" environment where students' writing can flourish. Lessons for the Writer's Notebook by Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi provides a series of proven lessons that will help you introduce the writer's notebook into your classroom,... more

Teaching the Qualities of Writing

Ralph Fletcher , Joann Portalupi

Pub Date: 5/10/2004
Product Type: PREPACK
Grade: 3rd - 6th

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

Independent Writing

M. Colleen Cruz

Pub Date: 2/18/2004
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 3rd - 6th

What is so special about Colleen Cruz's ambitious book is that she shows us that we can truly teach independence in writing. Our students can become writers who take initiative, make plans, learn from other writers, and apply writing strategies on their own, not only in class, but outside of school. I know of no other book quite... 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