Writing Workshop: An Essential Guide: A GREAT new book by Ralph Fletcher
and Joann Portalupi. A must read if you are interested in getting your
students to write.
In the Middle: A great
book for those who will be teaching middle school language. This is one of
those books you will read and re-read during your first teaching years.
The Writing Workshop Working through the
Hard Parts (And They're All Hard Parts): This book is a practical,
comprehensive guide for new and experienced teachers. The challenges of the
writing workshop are confronted head-on, with chapters on day-to-day
instruction, classroom management, the development of writing identities, and
the tone of workshop teaching.
Writing Pictures K- 12: A Bridge to Writing
Workshop. Help your students become more confident writers with the
non-threatening, step-by-step process in this guide. MORE ...
Educational Creative Puzzles: Boost creativity, word power and lateral
thinking skills in a fun way, the whole brain way.
Hot Fudge Monday: Tasty ways to teach parts of speech to students who have
a hard time swallowing anything to do with grammar. If you have ever felt
frustrated by kids nodding off as you try to teach parts of speech, this book
is for you.
AbraVocabra: Help your students improve their vocabularies with
AbraVocabra, a book that makes teaching vocabulary easy and effective.
AbraVocabra includes the following: “tip-off” sentences to help students
figure out what the words mean, student-friendly definitions, lots of ideas
for getting the students to use the words, interesting tests, and playing
cards and instructions for playing the game AbraVocabra.
Journal Jumpstarts: You will never run out of writing topics when you have
Journal Jumpstarts at your fingertips. This compact, easy to use book has over
400 ideas for writing, plus the most practical tips you will ever find on the
subject of journal writing in the classroom.
Language Arts Activities for Children: Over 150 fun, high-interest
activities to build a broad range of English language skills. All activities
are presented in a practical lesson plan format with step-by-step procedures.
Teaching Creative Writing: A great resource for teaching creative writing.
I have used this book for three years. My students enjoy the many activities
in this book.
Real-Life Writing Activities For Young Authors: A complete curriculum of
ready-to-use activities and materials to spark better writing. You get 40
classroom-tested writing projects with over 100 time-saving reproducibles that
hold students' attention while helping them build a broad range of writing
skills.
Grammar Grabbers: To parse or not to parse? To diagram or not to diagram?
These are the questions and GRAMMAR GRABBERS gives you the answers. This great
resources has over 200 reproducible activities that get students in grades 6 -
12 interested in grammar.
Beyond Roses are Red Violets are Blue: Poet Benjamin Green has
developed a very successful method of teaching students to write thoughtful,
high quality free verse. Each exercise helps students to create a poem,
offering structured guidance without stifling creativity.
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