Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out
10 best books like Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out (Ralph Fletcher): The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach, Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise Into Practice, Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School, Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry, Study Driven: A Framework for Planning Units of Study in the Writing Workshop, Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8, Nonfiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Information Writing K-8, Notebook Know-How: Strategies for the Writer's Notebook, Lessons That Change Writers [with Binder], Blending Genre, Altering Style: Writing Multigenre Papers
Part of me wants to hate on writing-by-formula, but I like this book a lot and was interested in a lot of the exercises. It's a good read on its own, even if you don't intend to use any of the prompts. After each prompt, the author explains why s/he finds these particular constraints valuable. I liked Agha...
| Author | Kylene Beers |
| ISBN | 0325011281 |
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This is the time to think boldly about adolescent literacy. So much of what we know about adolescents and their learning has changed in the last decade, and since then both the world of education and the world at large...
Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School
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...
| Author | Kenneth Koch |
| ISBN | 0060955090 |
The classic, inspiring account of a poet's experience teaching school children to write poetry
When Kenneth Koch entered the Manhattan classrooms of P.S. 61, the children, excited by the opportunity to work with an instructor able to inspire their talent and energy, would clap and shout...
| Author | Katie Wood Ray |
| ISBN | 0325007500 |
No matter what grade you teach, what state your school is in, and what level of diversity is present in your classroom, students have the right to be shown real-world examples of the kinds of writing they're asked to produce. For Katie Wood Ray, this foundational idea is also the beginning of an important...
Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8
| Author | Stephanie Harvey |
| ISBN | 1571100725 |
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...
Nonfiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Information Writing K-8
| Author | Joann Portalupi |
| ISBN | 1571103295 |
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...
| 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 | Nancie Atwell |
| ISBN | 0867095067 |
In Lessons That Change Writers, Nancie has narrowed and deepened her conversation with teachers, to focus on the minilesson as a vehicle for helping students improve their writing. She shares over a hundred of these writing lessons which are described by her students as "the best of the best." The lessons...
| Author | Tom Romano |
| ISBN | 0867094788 |
For Tom Romano, the multigenre paper is much more than a writing assignment. It is a multilayered, multivoiced literary experience. Genres of narrative thinking require writers to make an imaginative leap, melding the factual with the imaginative. Writers can't just tell. They must show. They must...
| Author | Barry Lane |
| ISBN | 0435087142 |
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...
| Author | Kathy Collins |
| ISBN | 1571103732 |
Primary-grade teachers face an important challenge: teaching children how to read while enabling them to build good habits so they fall in love with reading. Many teachers find the independent reading workshop to be the component of reading instruction that meets this challenge because it makes...
| Author | Regie Routman |
| ISBN | 0325006016 |
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...
| 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...
Spaces Places: Designing Classrooms for Literacy
| Author | Debbie Diller |
| ISBN | 1571107223 |
From Debbie Diller, author of numerous best-selling books and videos on literacy work stations and small group reading instruction, comes another practical resource filled with ideas you can use immediately to better manage your classroom and support student learning and independence.
In...
Real Revision: Authors' Strategies to Share with Student Writers
| Author | Kate Messner |
| ISBN | 1571108564 |
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...
| Author | Ellin Oliver Keene |
| ISBN | 0435072374 |
How do students become thoughtful, independent readers who comprehend text at a deep level?
To find the answers, authors Keene and Zimmermann embarked on a journey into the thought processes of proficient readers - a journey through poems and essays, classrooms and workshops, humor and...
| 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...
