Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style into Writer's Workshop
10 best books like Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style into Writer's Workshop (Jeff Anderson): The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child, Notebook Know-How: Strategies for the Writer's Notebook, The Art of Teaching Reading, Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing, Teaching Adolescent Writers, In the Middle: New Understandings about Writing, Reading, and Learning, The English Teacher's Companion: A Complete Guide to Classroom, Curriculum, and the Profession, Write Like This, Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers, Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading
The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
| Author | Donalyn Miller |
| ISBN | 0470372273 |
Known for her popular blog, "The Book Whisperer," Donalyn Miller is a dedicated teacher who says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. Her approach, however, is not conventional. Miller dispenses with the more traditional reading instruction of book reports and comprehension...
| Author | Aimee Buckner |
| ISBN | 1571104135 |
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...
| 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 | Penny Kittle |
| ISBN | 0325010978 |
Please join us in congratulating Penny Kittle for her 2009 NCTE Britton Award for Write Beside Them
"This book is about teaching writing and the gritty particulars of teaching adolescents. But it is also the planning, the thinking, the writing, the journey: all I've been putting into my teaching...
| Author | Kelly Gallagher |
| ISBN | 1571104224 |
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...
| 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 | Jim Burke |
| ISBN | 0325005389 |
In the four short years since publication, the first edition of "The English Teacher's Companion" quickly became the instructional bible for English teachers. Covering the entire English curriculum, from basic reading and writing to digital literacy, media literacy, and integrated instruction,...
| Author | Kelly Gallagher |
| ISBN | 1571108963 |
If you want to learn how to shoot a basketball, you begin by carefully observing someone who knows how to shoot a basketball. If you want to be a writer, you begin by carefully observing the work of accomplished writers. Recognizing the importance that modeling plays in the learning process, high school...
| Author | Penny Kittle |
| ISBN | 0325042950 |
"I believe each of my students must craft an individual reading life of challenge, whim, curiosity, and hunger, and I've discovered that it is not too late in high school to lead a non-reader to reading. It's never too late."-Penny Kittle
Penny Kittle wants us to face the hard truths every English...
| Author | Kylene Beers |
| ISBN | 9780325046 |
"Notice and Note" picks up where Keene and Zimmermann left off (or left us hanging) with strategy-based comprehension instruction. Like many teachers in the 1990's, after I read Keene & Zimmermann's "Mosaic of Thought" I attempted to explicitly teach visualizing, connecting, inferencing,...
Reading Reasons: Motivational Mini-Lessons for Middle and High School
| Author | Kelly Gallagher |
| ISBN | 1571103562 |
"Why should I read?" Can your students answer that question? Do they have trouble seeing the importance that reading may have in their lives? Are they lacking motivation, both in academic and recreational reading? Do you think you can effectively teach reading strategies if students don't understand...
The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers
| Author | Nancie Atwell |
| ISBN | 0439926440 |
Long an advocate of frequent, voluminous reading in schools, the author draws on evidence gathered in twenty years of classroom teaching to make the case for reading workshop more powerful than ever. The book establishes the top ten conditions for making engaged classroom reading possible for students...
