Write Like This
10 best books like Write Like This (Kelly Gallagher): The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child, Notebook Know-How: Strategies for the Writer's Notebook, Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing, Reading Ladders: Leading Students from Where They Are to Where We'd Like Them to Be, In the Middle: New Understandings about Writing, Reading, and Learning, 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, Read Write Teach: Choice and Challenge in the Reading-Writing Workshop, Reading Nonfiction: Notice & Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies
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 | 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 | Teri S. Lesesne |
| ISBN | 0325017263 |
Many of us are searching continually for that just-right book for each and every one of our students. It is my hope to help you find those books. More importantly, I hope to help you guide students to the next great book and the one after that. That is the purpose of Reading Ladders. Because it is not sufficient...
| 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 | 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,...
Veteran teacher and author Linda Rief has inspired thousands of practitioners across the nation to lead adolescent students on a journey to becoming lifelong readers and writers. In ReadWriteTeach, Linda offers the what, how, and why of a year's worth of reading and writing for middle and high school...
| 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,...
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...
The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Texts to Jumpstart Your Students' Thinking and Writing
| Author | Linda Rief |
| ISBN | 0325098123 |
Helping students put words on a page can be hard enough. "I don't have anything to write about!" they say. And when writing does happen, how do you help them develop these ideas into more effective pieces?
A powerful tool to jumpstart writing
In The Quickwrite Handbook, master teacher...
