Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing
9 best books like Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing (Penny Kittle): Teaching Adolescent Writers, In the Middle: New Understandings about Writing, Reading, and Learning, Write Like This, Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style into Writer's Workshop, Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading, Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters, Minds Made for Stories: How We Really Read and Write Informational and Persuasive Texts, Reading Nonfiction: Notice & Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies, Beyond Literary Analysis
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Thomas Newkirk |
| ISBN | 0325046956 |
In this highly readable and provocative book, Thomas Newkirk explodes the long standing habit of opposing abstract argument with telling stories. Newkirk convincingly shows that effective argument is already a kind of narrative and is deeply "entwined with narrative."
--Gerald Graff,...
| 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,...
| Author | Allison Marchetti |
| ISBN | 0325092494 |
"English teachers have been waiting for this book since -- well -- forever ... A groundbreaking and absolutely essential book." -- Tom Newkirk
Allison Marchetti and Rebekah O’Dell invite you to join them on a transformational journey. Out of the dark tunnel of boring literary analysis...
