Teaching Adolescent Writers
10 best books like Teaching Adolescent Writers (Kelly Gallagher): Notebook Know-How: Strategies for the Writer's Notebook, Lessons That Change Writers [with Binder], Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing, In the Middle: New Understandings about Writing, Reading, and Learning, The English Teacher's Companion: A Complete Guide to Classroom, Curriculum, and the Profession, Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style into Writer's Workshop, Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers, Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading, Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters, Falling in Love with Close Reading: Lessons for Analyzing Texts--And Life
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Jeff Anderson |
| ISBN | 1571104127 |
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...
| 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,...
| Author | Robert Probst |
| ISBN | 1338132903 |
In their hit books Notice and Note and Reading Nonfiction, Kylene Beers and Bob Probst showed teachers how to help students become close readers. Now, in Disrupting Thinking they take teachers a step further and discuss an on-going problem: lack of engagement with reading. They explain that all too...
| Author | Christopher Lehman |
| ISBN | 0325050848 |
You and your students will fall for close reading. In Falling in Love with Close Reading, Christopher Lehman and Kate Roberts show us that it can be rigorous, meaningful, and joyous. You'll empower students to not only analyze texts but to admire the craft of a beloved book, study favorite songs and videogames,...
| Author | Kylene Beers |
| ISBN | 0325050805 |
Visit www.heinemann.com/ReadingNonfiction for special previews, videos, and more.
Also available: Reading Nonfiction Student Bookmarks and Notice & Note/Reading Nonfiction Signpost Student Bookmarks
"When students recognize that nonfiction ought to challenge us,...
6 + 1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide: Grades 3 Up: Everything You Need to Teach and Assess Student Writing With This Powerful Model
| Author | Ruth Culham |
| ISBN | 0439280389 |
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. With this book, teachers will learn how to assess student work for these traits and...
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...
