Imagine having a Newbery Medal-winning author in your classroom as a coach, an advisor, and a friend, giving you personal and practical advice on how to teach writing workshop in the 21st century classroom. With The Write Thing, you can do just that! Kwame Alexander is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Crossover. With more than 10 years of experience conducting writing workshops in schools, Alexander shows how to shake up the "traditional" writing workshop and make writing fun again! His magnetic personality, contagious enthusiasm, and pure love of teaching come through to affect-and infect!-all students. Even the most reluctant writers will be motivated to write and encouraged to share their voices with others!
Part how-to and part inspiration, The Write Thing teaches you in step-by-step specificity how to move students from ideas, to drafts, to finished products, to published works. Not only will you successfully motivate your students to write, you'll take that motivation one step further by providing guidance on how to create student-driven publications of their work. When students write for a real purpose, the confidence they achieve when they see their writing legitimately published will be off the charts!
The book has three parts: Writing, Publishing, and Presenting. Writing features Lessons in Action that teach students to produce writing that is worthy of being published. With a focus on poetry, Alexander's writing workshop uniquely meets the needs of reluctant writers. Publishing focuses on how to prepare and print digital and physical copies of students' work. Presenting offers suggestions to help students confidently present their poetry and other written pieces.
With an insightful foreword by author Kylene Beers, other exciting features include KwameTime! videos for both teachers and students that bring Alexander into the classroom. Kwame's QuickTips feature easy-to-implement ideas that have worked for Alexander, and Solo Acts include success stories from teachers who have used his proven techniques. With a Balanced Literacy approach, The Write Thing is an indispensable resource that invigorates the writing workshop not just for students, but for teachers as well.
Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning (Second Edition)
Grade: K-12
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Narrated by Dr. Sharroky Hollie, this abridged audiobook provides novice and experienced educators with a pedagogical framework for implementing culturally and linguistically responsive strategies in today's diverse classrooms.
Clothesline Math: The Master Number Sense Maker
Grade: K-12
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Implement Clothesline Math and teach number sense in K-12 classrooms! This essential resource includes the materials that teachers need to conduct Clothesline Math lessons, and techniques for effectively facilitating the ensuing mathematical discourse.
Integrated English Language Development
Grade: K-12
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This powerful resource defines and supports the implementation of Integrated English Language Development (I-ELD) and provides research-based instructional strategies to immerse students in content while promoting oral and written language development.
Making and Writing Words: Grades K-1
Grade: K-1
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Making and Writing Words: Grades 2-3
Grade: 2-3
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Idioms and Other English Expressions Grades 4-6
Grade: 4-6
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Introduce idioms and effectively incorporate them into your language and writing instruction. The idioms and expressions included in this resource are provided within stories to provide contest to help all students, including English language learners.
The 5Es of Inquiry-Based Science
Grade: K-12
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Using Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom
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Science for English Language Learners
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Integrating Technology into the Curriculum 2nd Edition
Grade: K-12
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This updated, second edition resource provides teachers with classroom-tested ideas and resources to enhance instruction and help make the integration of technology into the classroom a seamless process.
Teaching Science Today 2nd Edition
Grade: K-12
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Primary Source Fluency Activities: My Community Then and Now
Grade: 1-3
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Learn about local government, community jobs, and government leaders through primary source documents. Help students develop fluent and meaningful oral reading, and develop vocabulary and word decoding skills.
180 Days of Spelling and Word Study for Kindergarten
Grade: K
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Provide kindergarten students with 180 days of daily practice to build their knowledge of spelling rules, conventions, and patterns. Students gain regular practice with word study through the quick, diagnostic-based activities in this workbook.
180 Days of Spelling and Word Study for First Grade
Grade: 1
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Provide first grade students with 180 days of daily practice to build their knowledge of spelling rules, conventions, and patterns. Students gain regular practice with word study through the quick, diagnostic-based activities in this workbook.
180 Days of Spelling and Word Study for Second Grade
Grade: 2
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Provide second grade students with 180 days of daily practice to build their knowledge of spelling rules, conventions, and patterns. Students gain regular practice with word study through the quick, diagnostic-based activities in this workbook.
180 Days of Spelling and Word Study for Third Grade
Grade: 3
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Provide third grade students with 180 days of daily practice to build their knowledge of spelling rules, conventions, and patterns. Students gain regular practice with word study through the quick, diagnostic-based activities in this workbook.
180 Days of Spelling and Word Study for Fourth Grade
Grade: 4
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Provide fourth grade students with 180 days of daily practice to build their knowledge of spelling rules, conventions, and patterns. Students gain regular practice with word study through the quick, diagnostic-based activities in this workbook.
180 Days of Spelling and Word Study for Fifth Grade
Grade: 5
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Provide fifth grade students with 180 days of daily practice to build their knowledge of spelling rules, conventions, and patterns. Students gain regular practice with word study through the quick, diagnostic-based activities in this workbook.
180 Days of Spelling and Word Study for Sixth Grade
Grade: 6
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Provide sixth grade students with 180 days of daily practice to build their knowledge of spelling rules, conventions, and patterns. Students gain regular practice with word study through the quick, diagnostic-based activities in this workbook.
The Westing Game: An Instructional Guide for Literature
Grade: 4-8
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Keep students engaged from cover to cover as they dive into a close reading of this 1979 Newbery Medal-winning mystery novel. This instructional guide includes rigorous activities and lessons to build key comprehension and literacy skills.
Lord of the Flies: An Instructional Guide for Literature
Grade: 9-12
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Challenge students with engaging activities and lessons as they undertake a rich and deep exploration of this classic, world-renowned literary work. This resource helps students comprehend complex literature and analyze story elements more critically.
Interactive Notetaking for Content-Area Literacy, Levels K-2
Grade: K-2
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Help grades K-2 students build content area literacy and increase retention through interactive notetaking! This resource provides creative strategies for notetaking to engage students in critical thinking and analysis across multiple subject areas.
Interactive Notetaking for Content-Area Literacy, Levels 3-5
Grade: 3-5
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Interactive Notetaking for Content-Area Literacy, Secondary
Grade: 6-12
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Help secondary school students build content area literacy and increase retention through interactive notetaking! This resource provides creative strategies for notetaking to engage students in critical thinking and analysis across multiple subject areas.
Close Reading with Paired Texts Secondary
Grade: 6-8
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Prepare middle school students for college and career with 12 close reading units designed to support content-area instruction and literacy development. Each unit includes text-dependent questions and paired fiction and nonfiction texts.
Ultima parada de la calle Market (Last stop on Market Street): An Instructional Guide for
Grade: K-3
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Analyze Last Stop on Market Street in-depth with this instructional guide that includes engaging activities and lessons in Spanish to build key comprehension and literacy skills for second language learners, with instructions for teachers in English.
Eres tu mi mama? (Are You My Mother?): An Instructional Guide for Literature
Grade: K-3
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Analyze Are You My Mother in-depth with this instructional guide that includes engaging activities and lessons in Spanish to build key comprehension and literacy skills for second language learners, with instructions for teachers in English.
Henry y Mudge: El primer libro de sus aventuras (Henry and Mudge: The First Book): An Inst
Grade: K-3
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Analyze Henry and Mudge in-depth with this instructional guide that includes engaging activities and lessons in Spanish to build key comprehension and literacy skills for second language learners, with instructions for teachers in English.
El dia que los crayones renunciaron (The Day the Crayons Quit): An Instructional Guide for
Grade: K-3
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Analyze The Day the Crayons Quit in-depth with this instructional guide that includes engaging activities and lessons in Spanish to build key comprehension and literacy skills for second language learners, with instructions for teachers in English.
Bound: An Instructional Guide for Literature
Grade: 4-8
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Using the standards-based lessons and activities in this instructional guide, students will build critical literacy skills as they read Bound, a great literary work that combines elements from ancient Chinese culture with a classic fairy-tale storyline.
