Writing
But How Do You Teach Writing: A complete, practical, and fun writing program in one book, this is the first all-purpose guide for both beginning and experienced teachers of writing at all grade levels and in all subject areas. Writing programs try to create a complete framework for teaching, but in their attempt to show how to teach writing, they may pass over why we teach it. New teachers handed a writing program and even veteran teachers struggling to meet the demands of state standards still ask, "But how do you teach writing in a way that honors students' self expression and thinking?"
This inspiring, practical, outside-the-box teacher's guide, illustrated with more than 100 cartoons, photos, and a variety of writing forms and checklists, will show you both why and how to teach writing. Like Barry Lane's immensely popular national writing workshops, this book might make you laugh and cry, but it will also help you achieve writing success with your own students in your own classroom. Author/Company: Barry Lane Grades: K-12 Book Code: W1 |
Writing for Real: Readers can regard this book as a toolbox, using strategies as they need them. The "In a nutshell" sections at the beginning of chapters provide teachers with a blueprint for trying out these strategies in their own classroom. Or he book can be used as a guide for a complete school year curriculum for teaching writing. Readers will learn how to:
*lay the groundwork for a writing community on the first day of school *motivate kids to write; *get kids to care about the conventions of English, including grammar and mechanics; *help kids master specific forms from traditional genres and modes of writing to new forms of expression; *effectively model "the teacher as writer"; *successfully organize writing groups; *deepen student response to writing; *use classroom publication to promote good writing; *connect writing to life through journals; *compose "occasional writing" to celebrate individuals and events. Author/Company: Burkhardt Grades: 6-12 Book Code: W2 |
Lasting Impressions: In this practical book, filled with the stories of real children in real settings, Shelley Harwayne invites readers to explore the diverse roles literature plays in any writing workshop. The author reexamines the familiar workshop structures of mini-lessons, conferences, author studies, and reading response groups and adds several new and surprising ways to weave literature into students' writing lives. These include using literature:
*to build classroom community *to understand students' literary histories *to facilitate keeping a writer's notebook *to discover important writing topics *to put listening at the core of students' writing processes *to inspire lifelong investigations of good writing Author/Company: Harwayne Grades: K-12 Book Code: W3 |
A Fresh Look at Writing is Graves's most comprehensive book yet. In it, he expands on many of his earlier approaches, examining portfolios, record keeping, and methods for teaching conventions, spelling, and a rich range of genre including fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. he demonstrates how to bring writing into your own life and experience the joys of the craft along with the students. This book is a true resource for professionals who want the latest ideas in the teaching of writing, as well as for preservice teachers about to step into the classroom for the first time.
Author/Company: Graves Grades: K-12 Book Code: W4 |
How Writing Works - Imposing Organizational Structure Within the Writing Process: This long-awaited text uses a totally new concept in teaching writing by focusing on learning to write in the real world - not the world of literary writing - by using content materials from the entire curriculum. This book includes model lesson plans for use in direct instruction of organizational structures and models of indirect instruction strategies for teaching learners to consider the task, purpose, structure, audience, and point of view through the writing process.
Author/Company: Houston Grades: K-12 Book Code: W5 |
Nonfiction Craft Lessons - Teaching Information Writing K-8: This book is divided into sections for K-2, 3-4, and middle school (grade 5-8) students. These divisions reflect various differences between emerging, competent, and fluent writers. In each section you'll find a generous collection of craft lessons directed at the genre that's most appropriate for that particular age. In the K-2 section, for example, a number of craft lessons focus on the all-about or concept book. In the 3-4 section there are several lessons on biography. In the 5-8 section a series of lessons addresses expository writing. Throughout the book each of the 80 lessons is presented on a single page in an easy-to-read format.. Every lesson features discussion, how to teach it and resource material.
Author/Company: Portalupi and Fletcher Grades: K-8 Book Code: W6 |
But How Do You Teach Writing?: A complete, practical, and fun writing program in one book, this is the first all-purpose guide for both beginning and experienced teachers of writing at all grade levels and in all subject areas. Writing programs try to create a complete framework for teaching, but in their attempt to show how to teacher writing, they may pass over why we teach it. New teachers handed a writing program and even veteran teachers struggling to meet the demand of state standards still ask, "But how do you teach writing in a way that honors students' self expression and thinking?"
You'll discover how to:
*Make the most of time, space and choice, three ingredients all writing teachers need
*Encourage students to use writing notebooks and other exploratory writing tools
*Teach a love for revision
*Use humor to bring life to nonfiction writing
*Draw successfully on the multiple dimensions of writer's workshop
*Make writing assessments work for you
*Teach skills in a fun context
*Keep track of your students' writing with 21 reproducible forms that help organize your writing block
Author/Company: Lane
Grades: K-12
Book Code: W1
You'll discover how to:
*Make the most of time, space and choice, three ingredients all writing teachers need
*Encourage students to use writing notebooks and other exploratory writing tools
*Teach a love for revision
*Use humor to bring life to nonfiction writing
*Draw successfully on the multiple dimensions of writer's workshop
*Make writing assessments work for you
*Teach skills in a fun context
*Keep track of your students' writing with 21 reproducible forms that help organize your writing block
Author/Company: Lane
Grades: K-12
Book Code: W1
Craft Lessons - Teaching Writing K-8: What element of crat can we teach student writers and at what age are they ready to learn them? This book answers both questions. Craft Lessons is the practical text for the over-scheduled writing teacher who wants to ive students fresh challenges for their writing but doesn't have time to pore over dozens of trade books to do so. There are three main sections in the book - one geared for teachers of primary students, one for teachers of grades 3-4, and one for teachers of middle school writers. This developmental structure allows teachers to go directly to those craft lessons most applicable and adaptable to their own students. Each of the 78 lessons is presented on a single page in an easy-to-read format. Every lesson features discussion, how to teach it and resource material.
Author/Company: Fletcher and Portalupi Grades: K-8 Book Code: W7 |
The Revision Toolbox - Teaching Techniques that Work: "How can I get my students to revise their writing?" If this is one of your most frequently asked questions, then this is the book for you - a guide to specific strategies you can teach to enable your students to resee and reshape their writing on multiple levels, from word choice to organization. Using three main Revision Toolboxes - Words, Structure, and Voice- she offers dozens of specific revision tools to inspire students to revisit their work.
Author/Company: Heard Grades: 3-12 Book Code: W8 |
Scaffolding Young Writers - A Writers' Workshop Approach: Adopting an apprenticeship approach, the authors show how explicit teaching, good models, clear demonstrations, established routines, assisted teaching followed by independent practice, and self-regulated learning are all fundamental in establishing a successful writers' workshop. There is a detailed chapter on organizing for writers' workshop, including materials, components, routines, and procedures. Other chapters provide explicit guidelines for designing productive mini-lessons and student conferences.
Scaffolding Young Writers also features: *an overview of how children become writers *analyses of students' samples according to informal and formal writing assessments; *writing checklists, benchmark behaviors, and rubrics based on national standards; *examples of teaching interactions during mini-lessons and writing conferences; *illustrations of completed forms and checklists with detailed descriptions, and blank reproducible forms in the appendix for classroom use. Author/Company: Dorn and Soffos Grades: K-3 Book Code: W9 |
Response Journals Revisited: This timely book shows teachers how to help students find thoughtful ways to explore and reflect on what they are reading, viewing or discussing. Offering a comprehensive view of response journals, this remarkable book serves as a flexible and multidimensional learning tool that encourages student to make meaning between what they read, write, and view and their own experiences. This book provides teachers with everything they need to successfully incorporate response journals into their teaching. It includes a step-by-step explanation of what response journals are, why and how they are used, the specific skills they develop and how they are formally and summatively evaluated.
Author/Company: Parsons Grades: 6-12 Book Code: W10 |
After The End: Teaching and Learning Creative Revision: Barry Lane revises our concept of revision, illustrating it as a constant inventive search for new possibilities and divergent meanings, rather than mere correction or what students wearily refer to as "redoing". For students in upper elementary to secondary school and beyond, and for every teacher looking to develop a common language of craft in the classroom, After THE END is a book of practical ideas and applications that inspire the reader to put it down and put it to use.
Author/Company: Lane Grades: 5-12 Book Code: W11 |
In the Middle - New Understandings About Writing, Reading, and Learning: This second edition still urges educators to "come out from behind their own big desks" to turn classrooms into workshops where students and teachers create curriculums together. But it also advocates a more activist role for teachers. Atwell writes, "I'm no longer willing to withhold suggestions and directions from my kids when I can help them solve a problem, do something they've never done before, produce stunning writing, and ultimately become more independent of me."
Author/Company: Atwell Grades: 6-9 Book Code: W12 |
Teaching Writing with Rubrics: The step-by-step instructions, scheduling guidelines, lesson plans, rubric assessments, and reproducible forms in this guide are the result of years of research, planning, and fine-tuning in the classroom. Inspiring student creativity while addressing standards and meeting the needs of every student has never been so easy!
Special features include: *Step-by-step instructions on how to set up a classroom writing program *Eleven comprehensive, classroom-tested lesson plans *Methods for adapting rubrics for high school students, gifted students, English language learners, and students with learning disabilities *Strategies for evaluating every step of the writing process, from pre-writing to final draft *How to incorporate Six Trait Writing Author/Company: Flynn and Flynn Grades: 2-8 Book Code: W13 |
Voice Whizardy - 36 Discovery Activities to Develop Personal Writing Voice: Tired of dull, formula-driven writing from your students? Discover Voice Whizardry and reawaken their slumbering voices! Easily adaptable to any balanced language-arts program, these 36 Discovery Activities teach students in grades 4-8 how to identify the subtle elements of voice and us them skillfully in any writing situation. With literary models and student writing samples for narrative and expository writing throughout, this resource will show you and your students how to:
*Recognize voice in the writing of others. *Choose writing topics carefully. *Personalize and focus responses to write-on-demand prompts. *Adapt writing voice to different audiences and genres. *Expand vocabulary - essential for writing growth Author/Company: Schrecengost Grades: 4-8 Book Code: W14 |
Books, Lessons, Ideas for Teaching the Six Traits: Nothing has the power to stimulate our imagination and cast a different light on everything we see, feel, and think quite like good writing. In Books, Lessons, Ideas for Teaching the Six Traits, we offer teachers a collection of some of today's finest literature, engaging books that will capture students' interest, while providing models for six-trait writing. Each selection is fully annotated and includes suggested writing activities to help students identify the six traits of good writing and incorporate them into their own work.
Author/Company: Spandel Grades: 3-8 Book Code: W15 |
Inside the Writing Traits Classroom: Reading lesson plans in professional books can be extremely helpful, but nothing beats seeing lessons in action. Inside the Writing Traits Classroom allows you to do both by providing video footage of model lessons plus a handy guide that describes those lessons and gives you all the tolls to carry them out yourself. You'll watch master teachers at Council Rock Primary School in Rochester, New York, using the traits to structure their whole-class instruction and breaking down the writing process so their young students know what to do and how to do it.
Author/Company: Culham Grades: K-2 Book Code: W16 |
Brighten Up Boring Beginnings and Other Quick Writing Lessons: In this book you will find 10- to 15- minute mini-lessons and reproducible activities that sharpen students' writing skills. This book is broken into three sections Improve Sentence Structure and Writing Style, Write Introductions That Grade the Reader and Create Strong Images With Figurative Language.
Author/Company: Robb Grades: 4-12 Book Code: W17 |
6 + 1 Traits of Writing: Why has the 6 + 1 TRAIT model had such a tremendous impact on writing instruction? Because it works. It allows teachers to pinpoint students' strengths and weaknesses in ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentations, and, from there, plan and carry out instruction. Here Ruth Culham turns her expert eye to our youngest students. Like her groundbreaking guide for grades 3 and up, her new book contains scoring guides, sample papers with running commentary, and focus lessons for each trait, framed to address the particular needs of K-2 teachers.
Author/Company: Ruth Culham Grades: K-2 Book Code: W18 |
6 + 1 Traits of Writing: Look at good writing in any genre, and you'll find clear evidence of these traits. This book - written by the leading authority on the 6 + 1 TRAIT model - contains all the tools you need to assess student writing for the traits and plan instruction. You'll find detailed definitions of each trait, scoring guides, sample student papers with running commentary, and focus lessons and activities. No other book explores the model in such depth or provides as many resources to bring it alive in the classroom.
Author/Company: Ruth Culham Grades: 3-12 Book Code: W19 |
Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Writing in the Content Areas: This concise guide helps you work with each student's unique skills and needs, so that the student learns to apply information, to demonstrate content mastery, to think and write creatively and critically, and to solve real-world problems. This book helps you develop students with lifelong self-direction and confidence as writers!
Author/Company: Chapman and King Grades: 5-12 Book Code: DI10 |