• Barbican: Can I Have a Word?
  Barbican Education has put together an interesting site designed to give 'teachers new ideas and insights to inspire creative writing in the classroom' by emphasizing the importance of words. There are 4 project areas: 'the elements,' 'the human body,' 'the odyssey,' and 'changing voices.' In each project, the visitor can listen to selected poets, watch visual stimuli aimed at firing 'children's imaginations' and also get ideas and activities to 'encourage creative writing.' There are links to other sites, bios of the poets featured, writing tips, and of course, a teacher's curriculum. Students, don't be put off by the idea that this resource is geared to teachers. Browse through this resource to get ahead of the teacher; you just might discover the joy of
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• Basic Tools for Beginning Writers
  From gripping a pencil to creating legible, coherent text, Basic Tools for Beginning Writers by Betty Schultze shows teachers how to incorporate essential skills into everyday routines such as the morning message and learning centers. Includes 15 in-depth lessons and reproducible forms & assessment checklists throughout.
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• Becoming a Literacy Leader
  In her new book, Becoming a Literacy Leader, Jennifer Allen explores her role as literacy specialist, staff developer, and study group facilitator, and provides practical suggestions for collaborative change, coaching, intervention, fluency, classroom design, assessment, and more. Click here to review the entire book online! Rec. by ASCD
  Stenhouse books and videos help K-12 teachers deepen their professional knowledge and build their students' skills as readers, writers, and thinkers.
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• Becoming a Literacy Leader
  In her new book, Becoming a Literacy Leader, Jennifer Allen explores her role as literacy specialist, staff developer, and study group facilitator, and provides practical suggestions for collaborative change, coaching, intervention, fluency, classroom design, assessment, and more. Click here to review the entire book online!
  Stenhouse books and videos help K-12 teachers deepen their professional knowledge and build their students' skills as readers, writers, and thinkers.
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• Becoming One Community:Reading and Writing with ELLs (Grades 3-6)
  In Becoming One Community, Kathleen Fay and Suzanne Whaley provide guidance on helping students who are just learning English develop their voice and skills within reading and writing workshops.The authors stress the importance of talk as a prerequisite for reading and writing.
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• Better Answers: Written Performance That Looks Good and Sounds Smart
  Ardith Davis Cole presents an instructional model that is dramatically different from anything you might find in most "test prep" resources. At last, teachers and school districts have a powerful alternative to those isolated skill-drill workbooks. Although this model does prepare students for constructing test responses, it also prepares them for any task requiring thorough, cogent answers to questions--both in and out of school environments. See the introduction and first chapter online. ASCD rec.
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• Better Answers: Written Performance That Looks Good and Sounds Smart
  Improve student extended-response answers and develop a life-long skill. Ardith Davis Cole has developed an easy-to-implement, step-by-step protocol, the "Better Answer" formula, that helps students focus on the task at hand. It is a process that begins with teacher modeling, invites increasing amounts of student participation, and eventually moves students into independent response writing.
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• Big Ideas in Beginning Reading
  This website is designed to provide information, technology, and resources to teachers, administrators, and parents across the country. Big Ideas in Beginning Reading focuses on the five BIG IDEAS of early literacy: phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, fluency with text, vocabulary, and comprehension.
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• Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices
  View entire book online. Ralph Fletcher draws upon his years of experience as staff developer, children's book author, and father of four boys. He also taps the insights from dozens of writing teachers around the US and abroad. Boy Writers asks teachers to imagine the writing classroom from a boy's perspective, and consider specific steps we might take to create stimulating classrooms for boys.
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• Bringing the Outside In: Visual Ways to Engage Reluctant Readers
  Review entire book online. Sara Kajder's demonstrates myriad ways to employ the technology interests and talents studens have outside the classroom into the classroom. See multiple examples of student work, demostrating how she adapts the curriculum to incorporate an expanded definition of literacy and literacy tools.
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• Colorín Colorado Writing Strategies for ELLs (MUST SEE)
  This new section on Colorín Colorado presents 15 ELL-specific resources focused on writing, 15 ELL-specific resources focused on writing, including articles, online tools, research reports, and tips for parents. In addition, we highlight resources from our sister sites and other recommended sources.
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• Common Spelling Demons
  A list of common misspelled words. Students can keep a copy in their binders.
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• Content Reading Across Curriculum 6–-12
  In this videotape set, high school teacher Cris Tovani brings viewers into her school and classroom and shows how she and her colleagues are meeting the challenge of improving students' reading skills across the curriculum. The tapes include examples of Cris working with students using texts from multiple disciplines in her classroom, as well as collaborating with colleagues throughout the school.
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• Content-Rich Reading & Writing Workshop
  Nancy Akhavan provides "A Time-Saving Approach for Making the Most of Your Literacy Block. The key is folding content instruction into the literacy block—taking students beyond the learning of reading and writing strategies to applying those strategies to content learning."
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• Craft Lessons Second Edition: Teaching Writing K-8
  Since its publication in 1998 Craft Lessons by Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi has become a mainstay of writing teachers, both new and experienced. Readers value the pithy, practical lessons—each printed on one page—and appreciate the instructional language geared to three grade-level groupings: K–2, 3–4, and 5–8. This new edition provides up-dated examples and many new features.
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• Crafting Writers, K–6:
  "Liz Hale shows us how to make good writing more tangible for our students" (Lucy Calkins). Crafting Writers introduces specific elements of writing craft and gives you a process for noticing them. You'll get advice on teaching craft one-on-one and to the whole class, group conferring, assessment, and more
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• Differentiated Literacy Strategies for English Language Learners, Grades K–6: :
  Gayle H. Gregory Adapted from the highly successful Differentiated Literacy Strategies for Student Growth and Achievement in Grades K–6, this book provides a wealth of grade-specific literacy strategies that not only increase student achievement but also increase it rapidly. The authors provide proven practical tools for differentiating instruction to meet language and individual learning styles. Teachers will find an instructional and assessment framework designed to promote critical competencies.
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• Essay Writing: Teaching the Basics from the Ground Up
  Jock Mackenzie, Essay Writing contains easy-to-incorporate lessons along with tips for teaching specific concepts that range from pre-writing exercises to revising and editing to celebrating the final product. Review entire book online.
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• Everyday Editing: Inviting Students to Develop Skill and Craft in Writer's Workshop
  Jeff Anderson These lessons can be used throughout the year to replace Daily Oral Language or error-based editing strategies with a more effective method for improving student writing. Not written for ELLs but may be a helpful resource for teaching mechanics.
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• Exemplars (Rubrics and student samples)
  Standards-Based Performance Assessment & Instruction This site contains rubrics across the disciplines. Some in Spanish as well as many student examples.
  Exemplars offers easily differentiated, classroom-tested, standards based assessment and instruction materials to educators in all 50 states and 27 countries.
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