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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)
• More than a writing teacher: How to become a teacher who writesTommy Thomason

  

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  More than a writing teacher: How to become a teacher who writes

  by Tommy Thomason

  This book will revolutionize your writing classroom. It's not about teaching writing. It's about writing teachers -- and how they themselves grow as writers. The author, a journalism professor, knows the fears, questions and concerns writing teachers have about their own writing. Short as it is, this book will take you six weeks to read. "Give me fifteen minutes a day, five days a week, for six weeks," the author... (more)
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  Writer to Writer: How to Conference Young Authors (Bill Harp Professional Teachers Library,)

  by Tommy Thomason

  Written for the busy teacher, this book examines classroom writing conferences, one of the most talked about and least practiced strategies in the writing process classroom. Each brief chapter introduces a different facet of the writing conference or the philosophy and classroom practice that undergird it, and each chapter ends with a "something to think about" section to help readers implement the ideas... (more)
• Write on Target: Preparing Young Writers to Succeed on State Writing Achievement Tests (Bill Harp Professional Teachers Library)Tommy Thomason, Carol York

  

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  Write on Target: Preparing Young Writers to Succeed on State Writing Achievement Tests (Bill Harp Professional Teachers Library)

  by Tommy Thomason

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  Absolutely write!: Teaching the craft elements of writing (The Bill Harp professional teacher's library)

  by Tommy Thomason

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  Every Cowgirl Needs a Horse

  by Rebecca Janni, Lynne Avril, Rebecca Janni

  Nellie Sue does everything with a western flair. Whether it is cleaning up the animal sty (picking up her stuffed animals) or rounding up cattle (getting the neighborhood kids together for her birthday party), she does it like a true cowgirl. All she really needs is a horse. So when Dad announces at her birthday party, “I got a horse right here for you,” Nellie Sue is excited. But when her horse turns out to be... (more)