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10 best books like How to Write Your Life Story (Ralph Fletcher): Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem, Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School, Nonfiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Information Writing K-8, After "the End": Teaching and Learning Creative Revision, Writing Essentials: Raising Expectations and Results While Simplifying Teaching, The Art of Teaching Reading, Real Revision: Authors' Strategies to Share with Student Writers, Everyday Editing: Inviting Students to Develop Skill and Craft in Writer's Workshop, Notebook Connections: Strategies for the Reader's Notebook, The Digital Writing Workshop

Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem
AuthorJack Prelutsky
ISBN0061434485
Have you ever tried to write a poem about a pizza? How about a pig? How about a pigeon, penguin, potato, Ping-Pong, parrot, puppy, pelican, porcupine, pie, pachyderm, or your parents?

Jack Prelutsky has written more than a thousand poems about all of these things—and many others. In this...
Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School
AuthorGeorgia Heard
Fans of the best-selling For the Good of the Earth and Sun will applaud this sequel by beloved author Georgia Heard - an inspiring and practical handbook that celebrates the natural power of poetry to teach the essential tools of all writing.

Awakening the Heart explores how to cultivate the...
Nonfiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Information Writing K-8
AuthorJoann Portalupi
ISBN1571103295
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...
After "the End": Teaching and Learning Creative Revision
AuthorBarry Lane
ISBN0435087142
At a time when the writing process is sometimes viewed as a seven-step recipe, with revision one of those steps, author Barry Lane inspires language arts teachers to approach the subject with flexibility and playfulness. He encourages both teachers and students to enjoy a sense of discovery and surprise...
Writing Essentials: Raising Expectations and Results While Simplifying Teaching
AuthorRegie Routman
ISBN0325006016
What does great writing instruction look like and sound like How do successful teachers of writing get great writers who enjoy writing Where do they find the time for instruction assessment and test prep In Writing Essentials Regie Routman demystifies the process of teaching writing well and gives...
The Art of Teaching Reading
AuthorLucy Calkins
ISBN0321080599
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...
Real Revision: Authors' Strategies to Share with Student Writers
AuthorKate Messner
ISBN1571108564
How do you show students that revision is more than a classroom exercise to please the teacher? Take them into the real world of writing for publication. In Real Revision, award-winning author and teacher Kate Messner demystifies the revision process for teachers and students alike and provides tried-and-true...
Everyday Editing: Inviting Students to Develop Skill and Craft in Writer's Workshop
AuthorJeff Anderson
ISBN1571107096
Editing is often seen as one item on a list of steps in the writing process—usually put somewhere near the end, and often completely crowded out of writer's workshop. Too many times daily editing lessons happen in a vacuum, with no relationship to what students are writing.

In Everyday Editing,...
Notebook Connections: Strategies for the Reader's Notebook
AuthorAimee Buckner
ISBN1571107827
The question I grappled with was how to move students from “couch-potato” readers who can answer basic questions with one word–to readers who think while reading–to readers who think beyond their reading.

–Aimee Buckner
 
In Notebook Know-How, Aimee Buckner demonstrated...
The Digital Writing Workshop
AuthorTroy Hicks
ISBN0325026742
" We believe new technologies can advance both the teaching and learning of writing." -The National Commission on Writing in American Schools and Colleges, The Neglected 'R': The Need for a Writing Revolution, 2003. Years later and we're still waiting to see how it can really be done.

The...
How's It Going?: A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers
AuthorCarl Anderson
Our one-on-one talks with students during writing workshop offer us perfect opportunities to zero in on what each student needs as a writer. As Lead Staff Developer for the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, Carl Anderson has provided hundreds of teachers with the information and confidence...
Author: A True Story
AuthorHelen Lester
ISBN0618260102
So begins the story of Helen Lester, author of Tacky the Penguin and many other popular books for children. By sharing her struggles as a child and later as a successful author, she demonstrates that hurdles are part of the process. She even gives writing tips, such as keeping a "fizzle box." Helen Lester...
Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6
AuthorLynne R. Dorfman
How do children's book authors create the wonder that we feel when reading our favorite books? What can students and teachers learn from these authors and books if we let them serve as writing mentors? In Mentor Texts, Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli show teachers how to help students become confident,...
Unjournaling: Daily Writing Exercises That Are Not Personal, Not Introspective, Not Boring!
AuthorDawn DiPrince
ISBN1877673706
While there were some worthwhile writing prompts in this book, I found many of them to be incredibly arbitrary and counterproductive. The point of journaling is to create a flow of language and get out all your thoughts about a particular topic. Instead, I found many of the journal topics in this book...
Bigmama's
AuthorDonald Crews
ISBN0688158420
Donald Crews, the Caldecott Honor artist and award-winning creator of Freight Train, Truck, and many other classic picture books for young children, writes of his own childhood experiences visiting his grandparents in Florida.

Four African American children travel with their mother,...
A Cache of Jewels
AuthorRuth Heller
ISBN0698113543
This is another in Ruth Heller's series of illustrated guides to parts of english speech written for young children. There are about 8 or 9 of these books (one each on nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, interjections, pronouns, collective nouns and more). In each book in the series Heller presents...
Wondrous Words: Writers and Writing in the Elementary Classroom
AuthorKatie Wood Ray
ISBN0814158161
How I wish I had read this book 20 years ago, before I made an attempt to teach my children how to write! In this book, Katie Wood Ray explains, in great detail, how she teaches writing. The theme is that in order to teach writing we have to observe and learn from good writers, both by studying the results (their...
What Do Authors Do?
AuthorEileen Christelow
ISBN0395866219
A sprightly text and colorful illustrations follow two creative people-and a talkative dog and cat-through the writing process step by step, from the inspiration for a story to the satisfaction of sharing the book with readers. Eileen Christelow based this instructive picture book on questions...
The Mary Celeste: An Unsolved Mystery from History
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0689851227
The Mary Celeste was discovered adrift on the open sea by another ship in 1872 -- with no sign of captain or crew. What happened? Did the crew mutiny? Were they attacked by pirates? Caught in a storm? No one ever found out.
Inside this book are the clues that were left behind and the theories of what people...
Conferring with Readers: Supporting Each Student's Growth and Independence
AuthorJennifer Serravallo
A great reading conference only takes five minutes, but its impact can last a lifetime. That's because conferences are the critical, one-to-one teaching that forms the backbone of reading instruction. Conferring with Readers shows you how to confer well and demonstrates why a few moments with students...
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