After "the End": Teaching and Learning Creative Revision
9 best books like After "the End": Teaching and Learning Creative Revision (Barry Lane): A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story, The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, The Art of Teaching Reading, Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Children, In the Middle: New Understandings about Writing, Reading, and Learning, Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding, Craft Lessons, The Best American Short Stories 2016, Unleashed
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
| Author | Linda Sue Park |
| ISBN | 0547251270 |
A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan,...
The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend
| Author | Dan Santat |
| ISBN | 0316199982 |
This magical story begins on an island far away where an imaginary friend is born. He patiently waits his turn to be chosen by a real child, but when he is overlooked time and again, he sets off on an incredible journey to the bustling city, where he finally meets his perfect match and-at long last-is given...
| Author | Lucy Calkins |
| ISBN | 0321080599 |
Written in Calkins' graceful and passionate style, The Art of Teaching Reading serves as an eloquent and desperately needed reminder of what matters most in teaching.
Incredibly valuable resource for current and future teachers and educators.
Offers a wealth of practical classroom examples...
| Author | Irene C. Fountas |
| ISBN | 0435088637 |
Among the many changes to sweep American literacy education has been a move toward whole class instruction. Nonetheless, children still bring to literacy a wide range of experiences and competencies. How, then, might teachers best support a literate community yet still meet the needs of individual...
| Author | Nancie Atwell |
| ISBN | 0867093749 |
The best way to teach is to learn together with the students. One of the rare breed of teachers who do know this is Nancie Atwell.
- The New York TimesReading this book can be revolutionary. . . . Atwell leads us to new understandings of teaching and learning in a workshop classroom.
- Voices from...
| Author | Stephanie Harvey |
| ISBN | 1571103104 |
Places visualization, a comprehension technique I use in my work with kids as the centerpiece of a spectrum of increasingly complex strategies for understanding: Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Determining Importance and Synthesizing. While there's almost too much...
| Author | Ralph Fletcher |
| ISBN | 1571100733 |
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...
The Best American Short Stories 2016
| Author | Junot Díaz |
| ISBN | 0544582896 |
Award-winning and best-selling author Junot Díaz guest edits this year’s The Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction.
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Unleashed, the romantic, high-stakes sequel to New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan's Uninvited, is perfect for fans of James Patterson's Confessions of a Murder Suspect.
Davy has spent the last few months trying to come to terms with the fact that she tested positive for the kill...
