The Qualities of Writing Bundle

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’ writing. These hands-on lessons explore the qualities of writing—ideas, design, language, presentation—and show how, when each is infused with voice, the writer’s personality energizes the writing.

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, sustain it in your curriculum, and eventually guide students to transition from the privacy of the notebook to public, finished pieces of writing. Whether used as a stand-alone resource in your literacy block, or as an alternative launch cycle in your Teaching the Qualities of Writing (TQW) curriculum, Lessons for the Writer's Notebook will inspire your students to pick up a pen and imagine the writing possibilities.

• Teaching the Qualities of Writing
  • Teacher's Guide
  • Lesson Cards
  • CD-ROM
• Lessons for the Writer's Notebook
  • Teacher's Guide
  • Author Chats CD
  • Lesson Cards