The Unstoppable Writing Teacher: Real Strategies for the Real Classroom
10 best books like The Unstoppable Writing Teacher: Real Strategies for the Real Classroom (M. Colleen Cruz): Everyday Editing: Inviting Students to Develop Skill and Craft in Writer's Workshop, So What Do They Really Know?: Assessment That Informs Teaching and Learning, Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement, Thrive: 5 Ways to (Re)Invigorate Your Teaching, DIY Literacy: Teaching Tools for Differentiation, Rigor, and Independence, What Readers Really Do: Teaching the Process of Meaning Making, The Writing Thief: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing, Who's Doing the Work?: How to Say Less So Readers Can Do More, Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters, Falling in Love with Close Reading: Lessons for Analyzing Texts--And Life
| Author | Jeff Anderson |
| ISBN | 1571107096 |
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,...
| Author | Cris Tovani |
| ISBN | 1571107304 |
In So What Do They Really Know? Cris Tovani explores the complex issue of monitoring, assessing, and grading students' thinking and performance with fairness and fidelity. Like all teachers, Cris struggles to balance her student-centered instruction with school system mandates. Her recommendations...
| Author | Lucy Calkins |
| ISBN | 0325043558 |
"As challenging as it must have been to write and finesse the adoption of the Common Core State Standards, that accomplishment is nothing compared to the work of teaching in ways that bring all students to these ambitious expectations. The goal is clear. The pathway is not."
-Lucy Calkins, Mary...
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| Author | Kate Roberts |
| ISBN | 0325078165 |
"We have never seen teachers work harder than we do now. These tools inspire kids to work as hard as we are."
-Kate Roberts and Maggie Beattie Roberts
What's DIY Literacy? It's making your own visual teaching tools instead of buying them. It's using your teaching smarts to get the most from...
What Readers Really Do: Teaching the Process of Meaning Making
| Author | Dorothy Barnhouse |
| ISBN | 0325030731 |
Drawing on their own lives as readers and writers and years of experience working in classrooms as coaches, staff developers, and consultants, Dorothy Barnhouse and Vicki Vinton offer practical tips for meeting today's rigorous standards while reminding us of the deeper, enduring purposes and...
| Author | Ruth Culham |
| ISBN | 0872070999 |
It's been said that good writers borrow while great writers steal. Writing thieves read widely, dive deeply into texts, and steal bits and pieces from great texts as models for their own writing. Ruth Culham admits to being a writing thief-and she wants you and your students to become writing thieves,...
| Author | Jan Burkins |
| ISBN | 1625310757 |
In their follow-up to Reading Wellness, Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris explore how some traditional scaffolding practices may actually rob students of important learning opportunities and independence. Who’s Doing the Work? suggests ways to make small but powerful adjustments to instruction that...
| 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 | Ralph Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0325088802 |
Nothing helps writers grow like practice. But not just any kind of practice will do. You've got to bring the joy! In Joy Write, beloved writer and teacher Ralph Fletcher shows you how.
"A writer needs wide latitude so she can bring all her intelligence to the task," Ralph observes. "Assigning...
| Author | Pernille Ripp |
| ISBN | 1138916927 |
Would you want to be a student in your own classroom? In Passionate Learners: How to Engage and Empower Your Students, author Pernille Ripp challenges both novice and seasoned teachers to create a positive, interactive learning environment where students drive their own academic achievement. You’ll...
The Reading Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Readers
| Author | Jennifer Serravallo |
With hit books that support strategic reading through conferring, small groups, and assessment, Jen Serravallo gets emails almost daily asking, "Isn't there a book of the strategies themselves?" Now there is.
"Strategies make the often invisible work of reading actionable and visible,"...
| Author | Kristine Mraz |
| ISBN | 0325062889 |
"This book is a gem: vivid, fun and thoughtful. It's like sitting next to a skillful, experienced, focused teacher in a real classroom. Kristi and Christine draw on their years of teaching and their dedication to educating children to help students become more empathic and act more thoughtfully and...
| Author | Kylene Beers |
| ISBN | 0325050805 |
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Also available: Reading Nonfiction Student Bookmarks and Notice & Note/Reading Nonfiction Signpost Student Bookmarks
"When students recognize that nonfiction ought to challenge us,...
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 | Brenda J. Overturf |
| ISBN | 1571109544 |
Word Nerds takes you inside classrooms at a high-poverty urban school and shows how two teachers implement creative, flexible vocabulary instruction that improves their students' word knowledge and confidence, enhances classroom community, and increases achievement. Leslie Montgomery and...
Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School
| Author | Andy P. Hargreaves |
| ISBN | 0807753335 |
The future of learning depends absolutely on the future of teaching. In this latest and most important collaboration, Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan show how the quality of teaching is captured in a compelling new idea: the professional capital of every teacher working together in every school....
| Author | Barbara Moss |
| ISBN | 0325049041 |
"What if there was a time when things slowed down? No rotations, activities, or worksheets-just you, your kids, and books. Would you take it?" -Debbie Miller and Barbara Moss
We know children learn to read by reading. Is independent reading valuable enough to use precious classroom minutes...
| Author | Steven L. Layne |
| ISBN | 1571103856 |
When teaching reading, American classrooms often focus exclusively on skills instruction. But how can you teach the "how" without the "why?" In his new book, Igniting a Passion for Reading, Steve Layne shows teachers how to develop readers who are not only motivated to read great books, but also love...
| Author | Katie Wood Ray |
| ISBN | 0814113176 |
In The Writing Workshop, Katie Wood Ray offers a practical, comprehensive, and illuminating guide to support both new and experienced teachers. While every aspect of writing workshop is geared to support children learning to write, this kind of teaching is often challenging because what writers...
