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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

New Directions in Teaching Memoir

Dan Kirby , Dawn Latta Kirby

Pub Date: 7/6/2007 1
 Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6th - 12th

  Students want to do work that’s meaningful to them. As their teacher, you can support secondary writers as they learn about the writing process, but you can also offer them something greater: an opportunity to tell their own story and to mold it into an artful work of memory. When students read and write memoir, they... 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

Narrative Writing

George Hillocks Jr

Pub Date: 11/9/2006
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6th - 12th

Narrative Writing is winner of the Richard Meade Award, given by the National Council of Teacher's of English George Hillocks, Jr. is a master teacher who has had great success working with kids in the Chicago Public Schools for over thirty years. This book will show you why. —Michael W. Smith, author of "Reading Don’t Fix No Chevys"... more

Right-Answer Writing

Ardith Cole

Pub Date: 9/5/2006 1
 Product Type: 3 Handbooks + CD
Grade: 4th - 12th

We know that all writing follows some kind of structure. But when there’s a Right Answer involved, those structures tighten—especially in testing situations, where someone else constructs the prompts and the answers. This narrows writing and offers students less freedom. Fortunately, Right-Answer Writing provides writers... more

Purposeful Writing

Rebecca Bowers Sipe , Tracy Rosewarne

Pub Date: 8/21/2006
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6th - 12th

The strains on high school writing classrooms are endless—externally imposed curriculum requirements, ever—increasing expectations, high-stakes accountability assessments, and looming pressures for studying genres ranging from college-entrance essays to workplace English. Purposeful Writing can help you make sense of... more

Writing a Life

Katherine Bomer

Pub Date: 8/30/2005
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 3rd - 8th

This depth of attention to a single genre is unprecedented in books on the teaching of writing. Until now, for this depth, teachers used books written for aspiring writers and translated them into sensible classroom practice. Katherine brings writing and teaching together exquisitely in this beautiful book.—Katie Wood Ray, Author... 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

Crafting a Life in Essay, Story, Poem

Donald Murray

Pub Date: 4/1/1996 1
 Product Type: Paperback
Grade: College - College

Murray is the master of teaching writing....[His book] is a treasure trove of potential minilessons for students of all ages.—InstructorIn Crafting a Life in Essay, Story, Poem, Donald Murray demonstrates the craft that has been his discipline and joy for more than half a century. He describes how the writing act has allowed... more

Writing from Start to Finish

John Schultz

Pub Date: 10/1/1990
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 9th - College

Writing from Start to Finish sets out the clearest and most comprehensive composition theory that I'm aware of today, powerfully developing the connections among thinking, speaking, reading, writing, and listening.—Beverlye Brown, Maplewoods Community CollegeThis concise edition of Writing from Start to Finish uses basic oral... more