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 Kwame Time! videos for both teachers and students that bring Alexander into the classroom. Kwame's Quick Tips 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) Audiobook
Grade: K-12
Price: $31.99
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
Price: $45.99
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
Price: $31.99
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.
Creating Social and Emotional Learning Environments
Grade: K-12
Price: $29.99
This resource defines social and emotional learning and digs into the real work of incorporating SEL in K-12 schools. It makes the connection between research and practical application through real-life examples and testimonials of SEL in the classroom.
Making and Writing Words: Grades K-1
Grade: K-1
Price: $59.99
Making and Writing Words: Grades 2-3
Grade: 2-3
Price: $59.99
Idioms and Other English Expressions Grades 4-6
Grade: 4-6
Price: $24.99
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
Price: $29.99
Create an active learning environment in grades K-12 using the 5E inquiry-based science model! Featuring a practical guide to implementing the 5E model of instruction, this resource clearly explains each "E" in the 5E model of inquiry-based science.
Science for English Language Learners
Grade: K-12
Price: $29.99
Effectively build students' language skills while developing their scientific understanding. Using the inquiry-based 5E model of instruction, this product offers valuable strategies for developing students' scientific content knowledge.
Integrating Technology into the Curriculum 2nd Edition
Grade: K-12
Price: $29.99
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
Price: $29.99
Implement engaging science lessons into your classroom that will intrigue, motivate, and groom students to be scientifically literate with this second edition book.
Primary Source Fluency Activities: My Community Then and Now
Grade: 1-3
Price: $29.99
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 Writing for Kindergarten (Spanish)
Grade: K
Price: $22.99
Help kindergarteners improve their writing skills with fun and effective daily Spanish practice activities. Guides students through the five steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing with fun daily activities.
180 Days of Writing for First Grade (Spanish)
Grade: 1
Price: $22.99
Help first graders improve their writing skills with fun and effective daily Spanish practice activities. Guides students through the five steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing with fun daily activities.
Organizing Your Virtual Classroom
Grade: K-12
Price: $9.99
This 4-page guide will help teachers as they establish the rules and routines of their virtual classrooms. With exciting strategies on how to set up at-home classrooms, teachers can start the school year virtually with confidence.
Engaging Students in Your Virtual Classroom
Grade: K-12
Price: $9.99
This 4-page guide helps teachers implement traditional engagement strategies in a virtual setting. With these great tips on keeping students engaged, educators can tackle virtual teaching with confidence.
Building Community in Your Virtual Classroom
Grade: K-12
Price: $9.99
This 4-page guide has various tips for building a classroom community and getting to know your students. These exciting strategies promote social-emotional well-being in a fun, exciting way.
Virtual Classroom Basics At Your Fingertips Set
Grade: K-12
Price: $29.97
Tackle virtual teaching head on! This bundle includes 3 guides designed to help teachers set up virtual classrooms, keep students engaged, and build welcoming classroom communities.
180 Days of Writing for Second Grade (Spanish)
Grade: 2
Price: $22.99
Help Spanish-speaking second graders improve their writing skills with fun and effective daily practice activities. Excites students while guiding them through the five steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.
180 Days of Reading for First Grade (Spanish)
Grade: 1
Price: $22.99
Encourage Spanish-speaking first graders to improve their reading skills with meaningful daily practice activities. Includes short and interesting Spanish passages that allow students to practice reading comprehension, word study, and written responses.
180 Days of Reading for Second Grade (Spanish)
Grade: 2
Price: $22.99
Encourage Spanish-speaking second graders to improve their reading skills with exciting and effective daily practice activities. Includes short, fun Spanish passages that allow students to practice reading comprehension, word study, and written responses.
180 Days of Reading for First Grade (Spanish) ebook
Grade: 1
Price: $22.99
Encourage Spanish-speaking first graders to improve their reading skills with meaningful daily practice activities. Includes short and interesting Spanish passages that allow students to practice reading comprehension, word study, and written responses.
180 Days of Reading for Second Grade (Spanish) ebook
Grade: 2
Price: $22.99
Encourage Spanish-speaking second graders to improve their reading skills with exciting and effective daily practice activities. Includes short, fun Spanish passages that allow students to practice reading comprehension, word study, and written responses.
Strategies for English Learners in Your Classroom
Grade: K-12
Price: $12.99
Help English learners thrive in your classroom! This 6-page guide offers research-based instructional strategies to promote oral and written language development. Includes ready-to-implement strategies that will empower ELL students.
180 Days of Writing for Third Grade (Spanish)
Grade: 3
Price: $22.99
Help Spanish-speaking third graders improve their writing skills with fun and effective daily practice activities. Engage students while guiding them through the five steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.
180 Days of Writing for Fourth Grade (Spanish)
Grade: 4
Price: $22.99
Help Spanish-speaking fourth graders improve their writing skills with fun and effective daily practice activities. Engage students while guiding them through the five steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.
180 Days of Writing for Fifth Grade (Spanish)
Grade: 5
Price: $22.99
Help Spanish-speaking fifth graders improve their writing skills with fun and effective daily practice activities. Engage students while guiding them through the five steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.
180 Days of Reading for Third Grade (Spanish)
Grade: 3
Price: $22.99
Encourage Spanish-speaking third graders to improve their reading skills with meaningful daily practice activities. Includes engaging Spanish passages that allow students to practice reading comprehension, word study, and written responses.
180 Days of Reading for Fourth Grade (Spanish)
Grade: 4
Price: $22.99
Encourage Spanish-speaking fourth graders to improve their reading skills with meaningful daily practice activities. Includes engaging Spanish passages that allow students to practice reading comprehension, word study, and written responses.
180 Days of Reading for Fifth Grade (Spanish)
Grade: 5
Price: $22.99
Encourage Spanish-speaking fifth graders to improve their reading skills with meaningful daily practice activities. Includes engaging Spanish passages that allow students to practice reading comprehension, word study, and written responses.
