6+1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide For Primary
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Literacy
Author: Culham
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Why has the 6+1 TRAIT model had such a tremendous impact on writing instruction? Because it works. It allows teachers to pinpoint students' strengths and weaknesses in ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation, and, from there, plan and carry out instruction. Here Ruth Culham turns her expert eye to our youngest students. Like her groundbreaking guide for grades 3 and up, her new book contains scoring guides, sample papers with running commentary, and focus lessons for each trait, framed to address the particular needs of K-2 teachers.
©2005
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Publisher: Scholastic
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ISBN: 0-439-57412-9
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pgs. 304
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6+1 Traits of Writing
Category:
Literacy
Author: Culham
*Self-paced distance learning graduate course offered in conjunction with this text (Course #523; 3 semester graduate credits, as low as $320). Visit our home page for more details.
Used throughout the United States and the world, the 6+1 Traits of Writing model has become a highly respected, essential tool for evaluating student writing and planning instruction. This guide provides teachers with everything they need to teach and assess student writing.
©2003
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Publisher: Scholastic
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ISBN: 0-439-28038-9
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pgs. 304
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Reading with Meaning
Category:
Literacy
Author: Debbie Miller
*Self -paced distance learning graduate course offered in conjunction with this text (Course #760; 3 semester graduate credits, as low as $320). Visit our home page for more details.
If you can imagine a primary classroom where all the children are engaged and motivated; where the buzz of excited emerging readers fills the air; where words are sounded out and connections are made between book pages and life experiences, then you have pictured the real classroom of author Debbie Miller. In this book Debbie leads the reader through a year in her classroom in which her students learn to become thoughtful, independent, and strategic readers.
©2002
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Publisher: Stenhouse
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ISBN: 1-57110-307-4
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pgs. 174
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Deeper Reading
Category:
Literacy
Author: Kelly Gallagher
*Self -paced distance learning graduate course offered in conjunction with this text (Course #766; 3 semester graduate credits, as low as $320). Visit our home page for more details.
Do your students often struggle with difficult novels and other challenging texts? Do they primarily comprehend at a surface level? Building on twenty years of teaching language arts, Kelly Gallagher, author of Reading Reasons, shows how students can be taught to successfully read a broad range of challenging and difficult texts with deeper levels of comprehension.
©2004
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Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
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ISBN: 978-157110-384-0
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pgs. 240
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Research-Based Methods of Reading Instruction
Category:
Literacy
Author: Vaugh/Linan-Thompson
*Self-paced distance learning graduate course offered in conjunction with this text (Course #653; 3 semester graduate credits, as low as $320). Visit our home page for more details.
Get your reading program on the right track using research-based teaching strategies from this helpful guide. Learn what you need to know about five essential elements of reading, why you should teach them, and how.
A treasure chest of research-based instructional activities helps you
- Build students' phonemic awareness
- Teach phonics and word study
- Improve students' reading fluency
- Develop students' vocabulary acquisition skills
- Help students improve their reading comprehension
Charts, timelines, and step-by-step guides help you implement these approaches in the most effective way.
©2004
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Publisher: ASCD
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ISBN: 0-87120-946-2
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pgs. 149
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Improving Adolescent Literacy
Category:
Literacy
Author: Douglas Fisher & Nancy Frey
*Self-paced distance learning graduate course offered in conjunction with this text (Course #880; 3 semester graduate credits, as low as $320). Visit our home page for more details.
Too many students in middle and secondary classrooms struggle to comprehend texts in their content area classes. This straight-forward, affordable text provides classroom-proven strategies to improve middle and secondary students' comprehension of content area texts. Each chapter opens with a vignette from actual classrooms, offering a glimpse into a middle or secondary classroom, and presenting the chapter's instructional strategy within content area teaching. These scenarios are followed by a research-based rationale for each strategy, an in-depth look at implementing the strategy and examples of each strategy across the curriculum.
©2008
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Publisher: Pearson
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ISBN: 9780132368766 - ISBN-13
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pgs. 225
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Notebook Know How: Strategies for the Writer's Notebook
Category:
Literacy
Author: Aimee Buckner
*Self -paced distance learning graduate course offered in conjunction with this text (Course #598; 3 semester graduate credits, as low as $320). Visit our home page for more details.
"Reading this book, I felt my old passions rekindled, and remembered what drew me to this field in the first place. That's the best kind of teacher renewal I can imagine."
—Ralph Fletcher (from the foreword)
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 provides the tools teachers need to make writers' notebooks an integral part of their writing programs. She also addresses many of the questions teachers ask when they start using notebooks with their students, including:
- How do I launch the notebook?
- What mini-lessons can be used throughout the year to help students become more skilled in keeping notebooks?
- How do I help students who are stuck in writing ruts with notebooks?
- How do I help students use their learning from notebooks for other writing?
- How do I organize notebooks so that the design is flexible, yet still allows students to access information easily?
- How can writers' notebooks help students become better readers?
- How do I assess notebooks?
This compact guide is packed with lessons, tips, and samples of student writing to help teachers make the most of writers' notebooks, without sacrificing time needed for the rest of the literacy curriculum. In fact, Notebook Know-How shows how smart and focused use of writers' notebooks enhances and deepens literacy learning in both reading and writing for students in grades 3–8.
©2005
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Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
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ISBN: 978-1-57110-413-7
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pgs. 152
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One to One
Category:
Literacy
Author: Calkins/Hartman/White
*Self -paced distance learning graduate course offered in conjunction with this text (Course #642; 3 semester graduate credits, as low as $320). Visit our home page for more details.
In an effective writing workshop, young children grow in leaps and bounds, and within just a few months, the changes in their written products can dazzle you. And after 30 years of studying her students' growth in the writing workshop, Lucy Calkins knows one of the most powerful ways to support good writers: clear, purposeful writing conferences.
In One to One Calkins and her colleagues Amanda Hartman and Zoë White show you the practices and principles that create effective conferences. They dispel the myth that master teachers have a magic touch and show you that effective teachers do not reinvent the conference with each student, but rather use predictable, principled interactions that follow a few simple frameworks. In One to One, you will learn:
- repeatable conferring frameworks that are the foundation of effective conferring
- specific teaching methods that you can match to your students' needs
- strategies for tailoring conferences to English language learners
- ways to use conferring across the content areas
- on-the-run record-keeping systems that are efficient, powerful teaching tools.
Good conferring, like good teaching, relies on your ability to communicate effectively with children, and the skills you develop as you learn to confer will improve your teaching abilities in all areas, including developing curriculum, leading strong minilessons, and untangling the classroom chaos that can derail a smoothly running workshop. Read One to One to improve your conferences and your teaching. But most important, read it to improve your students' writing every day.
©2005
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Publisher: Heinemann
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ISBN: 978-0-325-00788-5
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pgs. 232
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