Writing Lesson Level K--Perfect Punctuation


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Incorporate writing instruction in your classroom as an essential element of literacy development while implementing best practices. Simplify the planning of writing instruction and become familiar with the Common Core State Standards of Writing.




Getting to the Core of Writing: Essential Lessons for Every Kindergarten Student


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Inspire students to develop as writers in the kindergarden classroom with these engaging and creative writing lessons. This classroom-tested resource shows positive results in students' writing and simplifies the planning of writing instruction. It contains detailed information on how to establish and manage daily Writer's Workshop and includes consistent, structured instruction to encourage students to actively participate in the writing process. Specific lessons to help students develop the traits of quality writing are also included. This resource develops college and career readiness skills and is aligned to today's standards.




Writing with Mentors


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In Writing with Mentors, high school teachers Allison Marchetti and Rebekah O'Dell prove that the key to cultivating productive, resourceful writers-writers who can see value and purpose for writing beyond school-is using dynamic, hot-off-the-press mentor texts. In this practical guide, they provide savvy strategies for:--finding and storing fresh new mentor texts, from trusted traditional sources to the social mediums of the day --grouping mentor texts in clusters that show a diverse range of topics, styles, and approaches --teaching with lessons that demonstrate the enormous potential of mentor texts at every stage of the writing process.




Writing Skills Made Fun


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The Comma-Cupboard Game, Homophone-Hunt Crossword Puzzle, and Color-the-Capitals Riddle Game are just a few of the easy, reproducible games and manipulatives in this fun-packed collection of activities that teach and reinforce writing and spelling skills. Topics include capitalization, periods, question marks, exclamation points, commas, quotation marks, apostrophes, and spelling. Plus: proofreading checklists, review sheets, and a BIG, colorful punctuation poetry poster! Book jacket.




Practical Punctuation


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Dan has made it his business to delve into punctuation, and we are all the wiser for the impressive and exciting writing about the subject that he has done in this book. - Carl Anderson Author of How's It Going? and Assessing Writers In all the books I've read about written language, Dan's is the first to explore the mind's ear.... He has actually changed the way I read as well as write. How lucky we are to (finally) have an intellectually engaging exploration of what we have too long considered drudgery.... When you consider Dan's approach, you'll wonder how you ever taught another way. - Ellin Oliver Keene Coauthor of Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition, and author of To Understand Get ready to be taken by the hand by a master teacher who will show you how to teach students the rules of punctuation in clearly defined lessons. From the first page I was eager to take this book to my own teaching. - Mary Ehrenworth Author of The Power of Grammar Punctuation is important. Period. Good writers know the rules, but skilled punctuators don't simply go by the conventions. They use punctuation to make meaning. Practical Punctuation shows you how to help students discover the relationship between punctuation and meaning - and how they can use it to improve their writing. Practical Punctuation's strategies help writers connect periods, commas, and dashes to mood, emphasis, and rhythm. Dan Feigelson's ready-to-use lessons provide opportunities to: show students the purposes of punctuation before teaching them the rules give writers chances to experiment with punctuating model the thinking that goes into punctuating teach conventions explicitly, but not absolutely hold students accountable for punctuation in formal writing. Feigelson's lessons are highly structured. They demonstrate how to teach punctuation as a craft tool with writers of varying sophistication or age: beginners: ending punctuation intermediate-stage writers: the comma advanced writers: internal punctuation and cadence. Feigelson includes a handy teacher's reference guide to punctuation as well as grade-by-grade guidelines that make assessing punctuation simpler. And his interviews with world-renowned authors will help you and your writers better understand the power punctuation has to impart meaning. Read Practical Punctuation and help students make choices with punctuation - instead of letting punctuation rules make choices for them.




My View, My Voice, Levels K-2


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This classroom resource provides teachers with a strong foundation in the elements of persuasive writing. In the 21st century classroom, the skills and strategies required to effectively evaluate and compose opinions has never been greater. This book discusses why teaching persuasive writing is relevant and beneficial to the target age groups, and includes resources to help grades K-2 students examine multiple views on a topic and write their own informed, effective opinions and arguments. Persuasive writing provides students with an avenue to examine a topic, develop informed views, express their opinions, and defend their ideas with logical, evidence-based reasoning. This resource takes a unique approach to the topic of teaching persuasive writing with an effective combination of tips, strategies, and resources. With mentor texts, student writing samples, rubrics, lesson plans, and questions to assess professional growth at the end of each section, teachers will learn why persuasive writing is so important in today's classrooms, and how to tackle the challenge of teaching it. This book includes: 21 persuasive writing strategies; 10 lesson plans; student writing samples; mentor texts; anchor charts.




Literacy Lessons, K–8


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These classroom-ready lesson plans—complete with literature lists, directions, sample forms, assessments, and adaptations—connect literacy learning with students' lives and the community.




The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School


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A very smart cookie is doing the chasing in this sweet and funny twist on the classic tale. When a class leaves for recess, their just-baked Gingerbread Man is left behind. But he's a smart cookie and heads out to find them. He'll run, slide, skip, and (after a mishap with a soccer ball) limp as fast as he can because: "I can catch them! I'm their Gingerbread Man!" With help from the gym teacher, the nurse, the art teacher and even the principal, the Gingerbread Man does find his class, and he's assured they'll never leave him behind again. Teachers often use the Gingerbread Man story to introduce new students to the geography and staff of schools, and this fresh, funny twist on the original can be used all year long. Look for all of this hilarious Gingerbread Man's adventures: The Gingerbread Man Loose at School, The Gingerbread Man Loose on the Fire Truck, The Gingerbread Man Loose at Christmas, The Gingerbread Man Loose at the Zoo, and The Gingerbread Man and the Leprechaun Loose at School!




The Day Punctuation Came to Town


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Runner-up for the Reading the West Book Awards




Write TIME FOR KIDS®: Student Handbook Level K


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The engaging full-color Student Handbook is organized by genre to complement and align with the lessons in the four Teacher's Guides. This essential tool for guided and independent practice builds critical writing and reading skills. Each Student Handbook includes a copy of the mentor text to support close reading, language practice with an activity for the target language skill, graphic organizers to support prewriting and planning of the writing process, and draft frames to support struggling writers.




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