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Write Beside Them

Penny Kittle

Pub Date: 5/9/2008 1
 Product Type: BOOK WITH DVD
Grade: 9th - 12th

Please join us in congratulating Penny Kittle for her 2009 NCTE Britton Award for Write Beside Them!   This book is about teaching writing and the gritty particulars of teaching adolescents. But it is also the planning, the thinking, the writing, the journey: all I’ve been putting into my teaching for the last two decades. This... more

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

Zigzag

Tom Romano

Pub Date: 2/27/2008
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K - College

  I am not a natural-born teacher. I am not a writer of ease and facility. I’ve done a lot of zigzagging to get where I am. . . . I have to rethink, replan, revise. Adjusting my balance and positioning is ongoing.   We ask our students to write authentically, in their own voice. We validate their knowledge and... 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

Naming the World

Nancie Atwell

Pub Date: 12/19/2005
 Product Type: PREPACK
Grade: 6th - 8th

Harnessing the power of poetry, Nancie Atwell's Naming the World: A Year of Poems and Lessons empowers adolescents to make sense of their personal place in the world while honing their critical reading and writing skills. Naming the World's 200+ poems and accompanying five-to-ten-minute lessons are used by Nancie every day to jumpstart... more

Crafting Authentic Voice

Tom Romano

Pub Date: 1/14/2004
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 7th - 12th

A good writer has a distinctive voice. A great writer has an inimitable one. Regardless of subject or place in time or space, good and great writers share one trait—they are true to their personalities, spirits, and characters. How do they do this? How can WE do this as teachers and writers? And how can we show our students what... 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

Blending Genre, Altering Style

Tom Romano

Pub Date: 2/29/2000
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6th - 12th

I find Romano’s multigenre approach to research inspiring.—The QuartleryFor Tom Romano, the multigenre paper is much more than a writing assignment. It is a multilayered, multivoiced literary experience. Genres of narrative thinking require writers to make an imaginative leap, melding the factual with the imaginative.... 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

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