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  Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing

  by Penny Kittle

  Write Beside Them debuts as the field's most comprehensive, contemporary, and practical book on high school writing. Kittle not only tells how a skillful writing teacher operates, she shows you on the accompanying DVD, with clips of kids at work in every stage of a writing workshop. And all this glorious teaching happens with real, sometimes struggling kids who remind us of our own classrooms and students. ... (more)
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  Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, And Style into Writer's Workshop

  by Jeff Anderson

  Some teachers love grammar and some hate it, but nearly all struggle to find ways of making the mechanics of English meaningful to kids. As a middle school teacher, Jeff Anderson also discovered that his students were not grasping the basics, and that it was preventing them from reaching their potential as writers. Jeff readily admits, “I am not a grammarian, nor am I punctilious about anything,” so he began... (more)
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  Acts of Teaching: How to Teach Writing: A Text, A Reader, A Narrative

  by Joyce Armstrong Carroll

  Comprehensive, innovative, and practical, this text offers educators a powerful approach to teaching writing. Rather than have students perform repetitive exercises, it focuses on engaging students in grappling with words and experiences to make meaning. Such topics as the paradigm shift from product to process; an overview of the writing process; teaching prewriting and how to shape writing; examining genres;... (more)
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  6 + 1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide (Grades 3 and Up)

  by Ruth Culham

  Everything You Need to Teach and Assess Student Writing With This Powerful Model Blueprint for Writing Instruction! Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions, and Presentation. Look at good writing in any genre, and you'll find these traits. Think of them as the fuel that stokes the engine of writing.
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  Why We Must Run With Scissors: Voice Lesson in Persuasive Writing

  by Barry Lane, Gretchen Bernabei

  In real life most students are first rate persuaders, but when their persuasive writing hits the page it often get laryngitis. This user friendly book of 82 two page voice lessons, shows teachers 3-12 how to help students get their spoken voices down in print and then how to craft those fresh voices into powerful pieces of persuasion. Indexed by 6 traits
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  Image Grammar : Using Grammatical Structures to Teach Writing(Bk & Cdrom)

  by Harry R. Noden

  For decades, scholars have urged teachers to integrate grammar and writing, yet few have provided teachers with enough strategies and materials to do so. With this ground-breaking book, Harry Noden meets this need in a unique way.
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  Going Bohemian: Activities That Engage Adolescents in the Art of Writing Well

  by Lawrence Baines

  A compilation of 45 lesson plans for writing activities for use by middle school and secondary English language arts teachers. Going Bohemian activities use unconventional strategies, competitive games, art and multimedia, and indirect approaches to teaching some of the difficult lessons of writing. Included are lesson plans that explain the objectives, materials, set-up, and procedures of each activity,... (more)
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  50 Essays: A Portable Anthology

  by Samuel S. Cohen

  50 Essays: A Portable Anthology directly addresses students' and instructors' concerns that composition readers are too expensive and too large. With a net price of $21, less than half the size and price of comparable readers, 50 Essays meets the needs of a wide variety of classrooms. The carefully chosen table of contents presents enough familiarity to reassure instructors, enough novelty to keep things... (more)
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  On Writing Well : An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction 2nd Edition

  by William Knowlton Zinsser

  On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts or about yourself in the increasingly... (more)
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  Writing Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techniques

  by Jim Burke

  This book is designed to be read on the runbetween periods, while planning, even while teachingto make every minute count in your classroom, to help you work smarter and more effectively.
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  Everything's an Argument with Readings

  by Andrea A. Lunsford, John J. Ruszkiewicz

  Designed to be a true alternative to traditional argument texts, Everything's an Argument takes a fresh and friendly approach to the subject by showing students that argument is everywhere. Everything's an Argument with Readings complements this approach with a uniquely broad range of examples -- from essays to billboards to emails to radio programs -- that help students recognize and respond to the arguments... (more)
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  Sentence Composing for High School: A Worktext on Sentence Variety and Maturity

  by Don Killgallon

  Unlike traditional grammar books that emphasize sentence analysis, this worktext asks students to imitate the sentence styles of professional writers, making the sentence composing process enjoyable and challenging.
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  Sentence Composing for Middle School: A Worktext on Sentence Variety and Maturity

  by Don Killgallon

  Unlike traditional grammar books that emphasize sentence analysis, this worktext asks students to imitate the sentence styles of professional writers, making the sentence composing process enjoyable and challenging.
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  "Is It Done Yet?": Teaching Adolescents the Art of Revision

  by Barry Gilmore

  Beyond all the wise and practical advice Gilmore offers, there is another reason why I love this book - it's funny and fun to read. Though the author writes with great authority, he never places himself above the reader. Indeed, he uses humorous anecdotes from his personal life and classroom to humble himself and create a sense of joy even as he tackles a subject of dread for most English teachers. - Barry... (more)
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  Teaching the Neglected "R": Rethinking Writing Instruction in Secondary Classrooms

  Writing is how students connect the dots in their knowledge. Although many models of effective ways to teach writing exist, both the teaching and practice of writing are increasingly shortchanged throughout the school and college years. - From The Neglected “R” The National Commission on Writing   Every writing teacher wants to cut through the curricular clutter and get down to the matter of teaching... (more)
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  Dr. Jac's Guide to Writing With Depth

  by Joyce Armstrong Carroll

  For those who write, for those who want to write, and for those who teach writing–for the neophyte, and for the professional–this book delivers. Joyce Armstrong Carroll's Dr. JAC's™ Guide to Writing with Depth takes up where other writing guides leave off. The strategies for writing with depth as well as tips on ways to deepen writing would be book enough, but Carroll provides depth herself by offering models... (more)
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  Narrative Writing: Learning a New Model for Teaching

  by George Hillocks

  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" Using instructional methods grounded in concrete, practical activity, Hillocks clearly outlines how to help students take the raw material of their experiences and transform it into... (more)
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  micro lessons in writing

  by James Vopat

  Sometimes big ideas are best taught simply. In Micro Lessons in Writing Jim Vopat makes the complex concepts of writing instruction easier for you and your students: one little lesson per page, one big idea. Micro Lessons may be small, but they're big on practicality, providing your instruction with grounding, direction, and flexibility. Try a few. You'll find these small lessons will enhance your thinking about... (more)