Write, Think, Learn

by Mary K. Tedrow
Write, Think, Learn
Author: Mary K. Tedrow
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2017-08-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351683381
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Find out how to create the climate and space for everyday student writing. In this new co-publication with MiddleWeb, award-winning teacher Mary Tedrow shows you how to encourage students to integrate daily writing into their lives, leading to improved critical thinking skills, increased knowledge of subject areas, and greater confidence in written expression. This practical guide will help you consider the unique needs of your students, while still meeting state standards. You’ll discover how to... Develop classroom routines and activities that invite creativity and self-expression Teach writing methods that can be used across different grade levels and all content areas Challenge students to examine their own writing processes for thinking and problem solving Evaluate written work in a way that emphasizes growth over grades Many exercises, prompts, and attempts at thinking found in the book can be easily adapted for use both in and out of the classroom. Whether you are a new or experienced teacher, Write, Think, Learn will enable you to make writing come alive for all your students.

Everyday Content-area Writing

by Kathleen Kopp
Everyday Content-area Writing
Author: Kathleen Kopp
Publisher: Maupin House Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2010
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1934338664
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Everyday Content-Area Writing shows intermediate-grade teachers how to integrate writing into daily instruction and use it as an authentic, engaging tool that will develop deeper content-area understanding. Kathleen Kopp's fun and creative, write-to-learn strategies span the gamut of math, science, and social studies to show you how to make writing a time-saving, valuable part of your instructional day. Everyday Content-Area Writing includes: strategies to build background; foster review, follow-up, and practice through individual and group activities; and teach content-area vocabulary; note-taking tactics, organizational methods, and ways to save time while bringing meaning to learning; explanations and guidelines for formative assessments that guide instruction and summative, post-unit assessments that evaluate student learning; original ideas for incorporating technology inside and outside the classroom, publishing student work, and differentiating instruction; and tips for establishing a supportive writing environment. Suggested writing resources, ready-to-go templates, unit assessment plans, sample projects, and prompts round out this resource.

Four Square: Writing in the Content Areas for Grades 5-9 (ENHANCED eBook)

by Judy Gould
Four Square: Writing in the Content Areas for Grades 5-9 (ENHANCED eBook)
Author: Judy Gould
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2004-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1429112662
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Even students who have had a lot of experience writing often complain that they have nothing to write about! But what they need isn't topics, but the ability to organize and clarify their thoughts around a topic and develop that content into sentences, and those sentences into paragraphs. All the help your students need about writing and learning across the curriculum is in this book.

Write Like this

by Kelly Gallagher
Write Like this
Author: Kelly Gallagher
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2011
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1571108963
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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 English teacher Kelly Gallagher shares how he gets his students to stand next to and pay close attention to model writers, and how doing so elevates his students' writing abilities. Write Like This is built around a central premise: if students are to grow as writers, they need to read good writing, they need to study good writing, and, most important, they need to emulate good writers. In Write Like This, Kelly emphasizes real-world writing purposes, the kind of writing he wants his students to be doing twenty years from now. Each chapter focuses on a specific discourse: express and reflect, inform and explain, evaluate and judge, inquire and explore, analyze and interpret, and take a stand/propose a solution. In teaching these lessons, Kelly provides mentor texts (professional samples as well as models he has written in front of his students), student writing samples, and numerous assignments and strategies proven to elevate student writing. By helping teachers bring effective modeling practices into their classrooms, Write Like This enables students to become better adolescent writers. More important, the practices found in this book will help our students develop the writing skills they will need to become adult writers in the real world.

The Daily 5

by Gail Boushey
The Daily 5
Author: Gail Boushey
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2014
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1571109749
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The Daily 5, Second Edition retains the core literacy components that made the first edition one of the most widely read books in education and enhances these practices based on years of further experience in classrooms and compelling new brain research. The Daily 5 provides a way for any teacher to structure literacy (and now math) time to increase student independence and allow for individualized attention in small groups and one-on-one. Teachers and schools implementing the Daily 5 will do the following: Spend less time on classroom management and more time teaching Help students develop independence, stamina, and accountability Provide students with abundant time for practicing reading, writing, and math Increase the time teachers spend with students one-on-one and in small groups Improve schoolwide achievement and success in literacy and math. The Daily 5, Second Edition gives teachers everything they need to launch and sustain the Daily 5, including materials and setup, model behaviors, detailed lesson plans, specific tips for implementing each component, and solutions to common challenges. By following this simple and proven structure, teachers can move from a harried classroom toward one that hums with productive and engaged learners. What's new in the second edition: Detailed launch plans for the first three weeks Full color photos, figures, and charts Increased flexibility regarding when and how to introduce each Daily 5 choice New chapter on differentiating instruction by age and stamina Ideas about how to integrate the Daily 5 with the CAFE assessment system New chapter on the Math Daily 3 structure

The Tiger Rising

by Kate DiCamillo
The Tiger Rising
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2009-09-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0763649449
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A National Book Award finalist by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo. Walking through the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger—a real-life, very large tiger—pacing back and forth in a cage. What’s more, on the same extraordinary day, he meets Sistine Bailey, a girl who shows her feelings as readily as Rob hides his. As they learn to trust each other, and ultimately, to be friends, Rob and Sistine prove that some things—like memories, and heartache, and tigers—can’t be locked up forever. Featuring a new cover illustration by Stephen Walton.

This Is Disciplinary Literacy

by ReLeah Cossett Lent
This Is Disciplinary Literacy
Author: ReLeah Cossett Lent
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 150632696X
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Think you understand Disciplinary Literacy? Think again. In this important reference, content teachers and other educators explore why students need to understand how historians, novelists, mathematicians, and scientists use literacy in their respective fields. ReLeah shows how to teach students to: Evaluate and question evidence (Science) Compare sources and interpret events (History) Favor accuracy over elaboration (Math) Attune to voice and fi gurative language (ELA)

Deeper Writing

by Robin W. Holland
Deeper Writing
Author: Robin W. Holland
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2012-11-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452229945
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A guide for teaching successful creative writing, includes writing prompts, mentor texts to inspire student writing, and guidelines for creating original quick writes.

Interactive Writing

by Andrea McCarrier
Interactive Writing
Author: Andrea McCarrier
Publisher: F&p Professional Books and Mul
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-08-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780325099262
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Interactive Writing is specifically focused on the early phases of writing, and has special relevance to prekindergarten, kindergarten, grade 1 and 2 teachers.