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A Writer's Notebook: Unlocking the Writer within You
by Ralph Fletcher
Writers are like other people, except for at least one important difference. Other people have daily thoughts and feelings, notice this sky or that smell, but they don't do much about it. Not writers. Writers react. And writers need a place to record those reactions. That's what a writer's notebook is for. It gives you a place to write down what makes you angry or sad or amazed, to write down what you noticed... (more)
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Teaching Adolescent Writers
by Kelly Gallagher
In an increasingly demanding world of literacy, it has become critical that students know how to write effectively. From the requirements of standardized tests to those of the wired workplace, the ability to write well, once a luxury, has become a necessity. Many students are leaving school without the necessary writing practice and skills needed to compete in a complex and fast-moving Information Age. Unless we... (more)
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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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Lasting Impressions: Weaving Literature into the Writing Workshop
by Shelley Harwayne
Paper Edition. In this practical book filled with the stories of real children, Shelley Harwayne invites readers to explore the diverse roles literature plays in any writing workshop.
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Using the Writer's Notebook in Grades 3-8: A Teacher's Guide
by Janet L. Elliott
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Living Between the Lines
by Lucy McCormick Calkins
Calkins has woven insights, practical suggestions, references, and anecdotes into this inspirational story of a community of educators who have pushed back the frontiers of what we know about teaching writing and reading.
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Assessing Writers
by Carl Anderson
When it comes to writing assessment, there's no better judge of what your students know and are able to do than you. And when it comes to advice on best practices for assessment, there's no better source than Carl Anderson's Assessing Writers . Like he did in the popular and highly acclaimed How's It Going? , Anderson offers smart, ready-to-use ideas for assessment. Assessing Writers offers practical methods... (more)
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Notebook Know-How: Strategies For The Writer's Notebook
by Aimee E. Buckner
A writer's notebook is an essential springboard for the pieces that will later be crafted in writers' workshop. It is here that students brainstorm topics, play with leads and endings, tweak a new revision strategy, or test out a genre for the first time. In Notebook Know-How , Aimee Buckner provides the tools teachers need to make writers' notebooks an integral part of their writing programs. She also... (more)
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Amelia's Notebooks
Amelia's Notebook
by Marissa Moss
When Amelia's mom gives her a journal for her ninth birthday, Amelia has a place to share her truest feelings at last!
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Breathing In, Breathing Out: Keeping a Writer's Notebook
by Ralph Fletcher
Ralph Fletcher takes a probing look into the nature of a writer's notebook, examining what it is, how writers use it, and what makes it tick.
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Jazmin's Notebook
by Nikki Grimes
Her name is Jazmin, and like the music of her name, her life throbs and swings--a few flat notes to be sure, but also bursting with rich passages that rise and soar. Sitting on her stoop she fills her notebook with laughs, anger, and hope. There's the risky lure of luscious-looking men and the consequences of free haircuts. This is a fourteen-year-old so-real girl living in Harlem in the 1960's, born with clenched... (more)
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In the Company of Children
by Joanne Hindley
In schools of every description, teachers are working to turn their classrooms into reading-writing workshops. They're filling bookcases with the best of childrens literature, and students are tucking writers' notebooks into their bulging backpacks. This new look calls for meaningful change in teaching practice, but many questions about implementing literacy workshops remain. In this clear and practical book,... (more)
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Live Writing: Breathing Life into Your Words
by Ralph Fletcher
This book is based on the simple idea that every writer has a "tool box." Instead of awls and hammers, a writer's toolbox contains words, imagination, a love of books, a sense of story, and ideas for how to make the writing live and breathe. I wrote this book to give you some practical strategies to throw into your toolbox. I hope you'll try them, because these are ideas that can make you a better writer. This... (more)