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Writing Workshop: The Essential Guide

by Ralph Fletcher, JoAnn Portalupi

In clear language, Fletcher and Portalupi explain the simple principles that underlie the writing workshop and explore the major components that make it work.

Cloth Edition. The Art of Teaching Writing, New Edition, has major new chapters on assessment, thematic studies, writing throughout the day, reading/writing relationships, publication, curriculum development, nonfiction writing and home/school connections.

Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, And Style into Writer's Workshop

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)

In the Middle : New Understandings About Writing, Reading, and Learning

In the Middle : New Understandings About Writing, Reading, and Learning

by Nancie Atwell

Nancie Atwell reflects on the ten years of her teaching experience since writing the first edition of the seminal work, In the Middle.

Craft Lessons 2nd Edition

by Ralph Fletcher, JoAnn Portalupi

Craft is the cauldron in which the writing gets forged. Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi argue that too often we concentrate on the beginning and ending of the writing process—conceiving and correcting—while leaving students on their own to make a thousand critical decisions in their writing about crafting leads, voice, structure, supporting detail, setting, mood, and character. What elements of craft can we... (more)

A Writer's Notebook: Unlocking the Writer within You

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)

6 + 1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide (Grades 3 and Up)

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.

6+1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for the Primary Grades

6+1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for the Primary Grades

by Ruth Culham

These powerful models give you everything you need to assess and teach young writers.

Nonfiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Information Writing K-8

Nonfiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Information Writing K-8

by Ralph Fletcher, JoAnn Portalupi

Writing nonfiction represents a big step for most students. Most young writers are not intimidated by personal narrative, fiction, or even poetry, but when they try to put together a "teaching book," report, or persuasive essay, they often feel anxious and frustrated. JoAnn Portalupi and Ralph Fletcher believe that young nonfiction writers supply plenty of passion, keen interest, and wonder. Teachers can provide... (more)

The Writing Workshop: Working Through the Hard Parts (And They're All Hard Parts)

The Writing Workshop: Working Through the Hard Parts (And They're All Hard Parts)

by Katie Wood Ray, Lester L. Laminack

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)

Trait-Based Mini-Lessons for Teaching Writing in Grades 2-4

Trait-Based Mini-Lessons for Teaching Writing in Grades 2-4

by Megan S. Sloan

More than 25 effective and engaging mini-lessons to help students strengthen their writing by learning about the traits: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation. Mini-lessons focus on different stages of the writing process, from prewriting to editing. Includes student writing samples and suggested children's books to model each trait.

Trait Crate: Grade 5: Picture Books, Model Lessons, and More to Teach Writing With the 6 Traits

Trait Crate: Grade 5: Picture Books, Model Lessons, and More to Teach Writing With the 6 Traits

by Ruth Culham

In this amazing kit, writing expert Ruth Culham gives you grade-perfect picture books with in-depth lessons to help you teach the traits of writing—ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. The third-grade version includes * 6 picture books: The Hickory Chair; The Paperboy; How Are You Peeling?; Into the A, B, C; Momma, Where Are You From?; and The Mega-Deluxe Capitalization... (more)

Scaffolding Young Writers: A Writers' Workshop Approach

Scaffolding Young Writers: A Writers' Workshop Approach

by Linda J. Dorn

The goal of teaching writing is to create independent and self-motivated writers. When students write more often, they become better at writing. They acquire habits, skills, and strategies that enable them to learn more about the craft of writing. Yet they require the guidance and support of a more knowledgeable person who understands the writing process, the changes over time in writing development, and specific... (more)

Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8

Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8

by Stephanie Harvey

When we open the gates to nonfiction inquiry, we open our thinking and expect the unexpected, making reading discoveries, research discoveries, and writing discoveries on our way. Nonfiction Matters offers teachers the tools to help students explore nonfiction and dig deep to reach more complete understanding of the real world and report these insights in a compelling manner. Stephanie Harvey shows how students... (more)

About the Authors: Writing Workshop with Our Youngest Writers

About the Authors: Writing Workshop with Our Youngest Writers

by Katie Wood Ray

Based on a profound understanding of the ways in which young children learn, this book shows teachers how to launch a writing workshop by inviting children to do what they do naturally - make stuff.

The Write Genre

by Lori Jamison Rog, Paul Kropp

How do we make writing meaningful to students? A leading educator and a popular novelist present a refreshing exploration of how the challenges of professional writers can give students new insights into writing. The Write Genre presents a balanced approach to writing workshops in grades 3–9. It provides hands-on activities that focus on all stages of the writing process, with teacher-directed assignments and... (more)

A Place for Wonder: Reading and Writing Nonfiction in the Primary Grades

A Place for Wonder: Reading and Writing Nonfiction in the Primary Grades

by Georgia Heard, Jennifer McDonough

In A Place for Wonder, Georgia Heard and Jennifer McDonough discuss how to create “a landscape of wonder,” a primary classroom where curiosity, creativity, and exploration are encouraged. For it is these characteristics, the authors write, that develop intelligent, inquiring, life-long learners. The authors’ research shows that many primary grade state standards encourage teaching for understanding, critical... (more)

Nonfiction Mentor Texts: Teaching Informational Writing Through Children's Literature, K-8

Nonfiction Mentor Texts: Teaching Informational Writing Through Children's Literature, K-8

by Rose Cappelli, Lynne R. Dorfman

In their first book, Mentor Texts , Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli demonstrated how teachers can use children’s literature to guide and inspire student writers of narrative fiction and poetry. Now, they have turned their focus to nonfiction, identifying a wide range of mentor texts and showing how these models illustrate the key features of good writing. Lynne and Rose guide teachers through a variety of... (more)

The Writing Workshop: A World of Difference

The Writing Workshop: A World of Difference

by Lucy McCormick Calkins

Written to accompany their videotape program of the same title this guide stands on its own as a storehouse of staff development ideas and activities.

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by Ralph Fletcher, JoAnn Portalupi

by Lucy McCormick Calkins

by Jeff Anderson

by Nancie Atwell

by Ralph Fletcher, JoAnn Portalupi

by Ralph Fletcher

by Ruth Culham

by Ruth Culham

by Ralph Fletcher, JoAnn Portalupi

by Katie Wood Ray, Lester L. Laminack

by Kelly Gallagher

by Megan S. Sloan

by Ruth Culham

by Linda J. Dorn

by Stephanie Harvey

by Katie Wood Ray

by Lori Jamison Rog, Paul Kropp

by Georgia Heard, Jennifer McDonough

by Rose Cappelli, Lynne R. Dorfman

by Lucy McCormick Calkins