Snow is falling. all the animals are fast asleep in their animal homes. They awake. They open their eyes. They sniff. They Run. What will they find? This book is as fresh as the first day of spring
This book contains ready to use prompts for more than 45 best loved books including many Newberry winners, organized by realistic fiction, historical fiction, and fantasy fiction. It also includes guidelines for using R.A.F.T.S. prompts, reproducible versions to distribute to students, and all the tools you need to create your own prompts.
John, Jack, and Charles are strangers brought together by the Imaginarium Geographica an atlas of all the lands that have ever existed in myth and legend, fable and fairy tale. On the eve of the murder of a caretaker of the Geographica, the men learn that it is now up to them to protect the atlas from the Winter King, an evil conqueror gaining strength in the world of the imaginary. After secur…
More than 75 writing prompts for math, social studies, and science, based on NCCTM, NCSS, and NAS standards.
From the experts in trait-based writing instruction comes this collection of time-saving reproducible forms for planning instruction, keeping records, communicating with parents, and-most importantly- helping your students produce their best work.
Teaching the most daunting tasks of writing-revision and editing-just became easier and more manageable with the publication of this book. Ruth Culham targets essential skills with "warm-ups" : short, powerful activities that provide students with real writing practice in revising for ideas, organization, voice, word choice, and sentence fluency, and in editing for conventions. From there, stud…
In this book, the author has compiled more than 200 annotations of new and classic books that will delight you and your students and inspire powerful writing. Each teacher-friendly annotation captures the essence of the book and describes precisely why it works well for the selected trait. In addition, she present 32 step-by-step, trait-focused lessons based on specific books. You'll wonder how…
Good teachers have long recognized the power of using picture books as models of good writing. The short, focused, and tightly woven text in these books mirrors the kind of writing they want their students to be doing. In this essential resources, the authors provide more than 150 annotations of new and classic books chosen to delight young students and inspire powerful writing.