61.
Series:
Writing Power
Engaging thinking through writing
Paperback
Adrienne Gear
9781551382630
$24.95
EDUCATION
Sep 14, 2011
This practical and thoughtful resource is a follow up to the ground-breaking Reading Power books, which feature simple strategies for helping students focus on their "thinking" while they read. Teachers already familiar with these books will find this a simple way to link reading and writing instruction. Using the same five thinking strategies -- Connect, Question, Visualize, Infer, and Transform -- young writers will learn how to engage their readers' thinking through their writing. Writing Power will guide teachers through a series of lessons...
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62.
Series:
The Write Voice
Using rich prompts to help student writing come alive
Paperback
Lisa Donohue
9781551382685
$24.95
EDUCATION
Sep 01, 2011
A comprehensive approach to teaching writing that deals not only with style, but with the writer's inspiration and the tools and strategies that young writers need to write well. The book includes a series of rich, engaging writing prompts that teachers can use to help even the most mechanical writer begin to write with pizzazz and flair. The Write Voice is organized around seven strategies with appropriate prompts to help students seek and recognize inspiration. Sensory Statements: using the five senses to help the reader create a mental im...
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63.
Series:
Journey to Literay: No Worksheets Required
Paperback
Krista Flemington
9781551382616
$24.95
EDUCATION
May 25, 2011
The play-based learning and individualized strategies in this practical book build on the wide range of literacy skills present in the kindergarten classroom. This valuable resource explores simple ways to use traditional learning centres to provide children with real and authentic reasons to listen, speak, read, write, and view. Teachers will find a wealth of resources for creating meaningful learning experiences, including: answers to often-asked questions milestones to inform teaching instruction activities and games for both individual...
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64.
Series:
Breathe, Stretch, Write
Learning to write with everything you've got
Paperback
Sheree Fitch
9781551382562
$24.95
EDUCATION
Feb 01, 2011
Designed to spark the imagination and enhance creativity, the guided exercises and fun-filled suggestions in this innovative book integrate elements of writing with simple movements and yoga principles to create a safe and joyful learning experience. The book combines writing tasks with basic physical movements that are easy to incorporate into classroom instruction. Useful and inspiring for students and teachers alike, the book is committed to getting kids writing and playing with words and ideas. It challenges teachers to refresh their teachi...
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65.
Series:
Get Graphic!
Using storyboards to write and draw picture books, graphic novels, or comic strips
Paperback
Mark Thurman
9781551382524
$24.95
EDUCATION
May 01, 2010
This lively new book introduces the power of the storyboard in the creative process — from brainstorming ideas to developing, revising, and finalizing stories. It describes an eight-stage process that shows, step-by-step, how students can create unique, action-filled pages for their stories and books. Planning suggestions, glossaries of visual terms, and ready-to-copy storyboards are all a part of the active process described. The detailed, yet light-hearted approach will inspire creativity and add vitality to any task or project.
66.
Series:
Teaching Fairly in an Unfair World
Paperback
Kathleen Gould Lundy
9781551382319
$24.95
EDUCATION
Dec 01, 2009
This ground-breaking book is committed to creating inclusive classrooms where students feel safe and are aware of what is fair, not only for them but for others. This powerful book helps teachers redefine an inclusive curriculum by questioning what is taught, how it is taught, to whom, and under what conditions. It offers teachers a wealth of challenging, open-ended pursuits that give students voice and help them better understand their world. The book explores opportunities for students to connect with social justice issues in the real world t...
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67.
Series:
Nonfiction Reading Power
Teaching students how to think while they read all kinds of information
Paperback
Adrienne Gear
9781551382296
$24.95
EDUCATION
Oct 01, 2008
This remarkable book gives teachers a wealth of effective strategies for helping students think while they read material in all subject areas. Based on using the best children's books to motivate students, this book shows teachers how to encourage students to recognize that reading is about using the brain to zoom-in, question/infer, find the main idea, make connections, and transform what's on the printed page. The book explores the particular features of nonfiction and offers lists of key books organized around strategies and subject areas. I...
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68.
Series:
Basic Tools for Beginning Writers
How to teach all the skills beginning writers need — from alphabet recognition and spelling to strategies for self-editing and building coherent context
Paperback
Betty Schultze
9781551382210
$24.95
EDUCATION
Feb 01, 2008
How to teach all the skills beginning writers need — from alphabet recognition and spelling to strategies for self-editing and building coherent text. Offers teachers strategies for helping children grasp the pencil, print legibly, spell, punctuate, and create sentences that contain complete thoughts and link together logically. Includes background information, lesson ideas, and suggestions for student review, extensions, and modifications that lead to best practices in developing writing consistency.
69.
Series:
Reclaiming Reluctant Writers
How to encourage students to face their fears and master the essential traits of good writers
Revised edition
Paperback
Kellie Buis
9781551382203
$24.95
EDUCATION
Oct 01, 2007
Discover a wealth of new ways to encourage students to face their fears and master the essential traits of good writing. This practical and insightful book features a number of classroom-tested activities that take students from isolated skills to a deep and rich understanding of the form and function of language. The focus is on inspiring young writers to view writing not as a chore, but as a purposeful, pleasurable, and satisfying experience. With all the tools you need to create an environment that celebrates personal meaning making and nour...
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70.
Series:
The Write Genre
Classroom activities and mini-lessons that promote writing with clarity, style, and flashes of brilliance
Paperback
Lori Jamison Rog
9781551381725
$24.95
EDUCATION
Sep 01, 2004
Discover a balanced approach to writing workshops in grades 3–9. The book's unique, hands-on activities are carefully designed to help students write with a concrete purpose and audience in mind, and complete assignments that are more focused and authentic. Organized around six writing genres — personal memoir, fictional narrative, informational report, opinion piece, procedural writing, and poetry — more than 50 mini-lessons deal with specific skills that will help students write effective fiction and nonfiction. To become fully and functional...
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