• Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K–6
  In Mentor Texts, Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli show teachers how to help students become confident, accomplished writers, using literature as their foundation. The book is organized around the characteristics of good writing—focus, content, organization, style, and conventions
  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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• MESA PUBLIC SCHOOLS Student Friendly 6+1 T raits™ Writing Rubric
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• More Reading Strategies (Elementary examples)
  A very teacher-friendly site for reading strategies, graphic organizers. Includes a story paragraph frams. See link to an online dictionary that pronounces the words.
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• More Tools for Teaching Content Literacy:
  In Tools for Teaching Content Literacy Janet Allen put a wealth of research-based instructional tools at teachers' fingertips to help students make connections with informational resources and to read critically. More Tools for Teaching Content Literacy extends this treasure trove with 25 new instructional strategies -
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• Nonfiction Mentor Texts: Teaching Informational Writing Through Children's Literature, K-8
  Lynne Dorfman and Rose Capelli's new book includes a treasure chest of books organized according to chapter. This list includes titles to help students learn about quality nonfiction writing—building content, organizing text, developing voice, enhancing style, using punctuation effectively—and from which students can draw topic ideas.
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• Notebook Know-How: Strategies for the Writer's Notebook
  A BOOK review entire book online. In Notebook Know-How, Aimee Buckner provides the tools teachers need to make writers' notebooks an integral part of their writing programs. She also addresses many of the questions teachers ask when they start using notebooks with their students.
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• Notebook Know-How: Strategies for the Writer's Notebook
  by Aimee Buckner, Writer's notebook is an essential springboard for the pieces that will later be crafted in writers' workshop. It is here that students brainstorm topics, play with leads and endings, tweak a new revision strategy, or test out a genre for the first time. In Notebook Know-How, Aimee Buckner provides the tools teachers need to make writers' notebooks an integral part of their writing programs.
  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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• Parents: Content Reading and Writing for students MS to HS
  Do you have a child in middle school or high school who is having difficulty with reading and writing? Are these difficulties having an impact on performance? Do you want guidance for offering help at home? If so, welcome to Literacy Matters. There are three routes you can follow to get started.
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• Principles for  Powerful Persuasion (Helpful Analogy)
  http://www.southwesterncc.edu/wac/resources/Persuation.ppt Copy the above link to see a PowerPoint presentation that compares Persuasion to making a candle. The analogy could be used to teach persuasive speech or writing.
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• Reading Graphic Organizers and Printables (Elementary)
  The graphic organizers in this site are visually attrative and appropriate for elementary students. Available in both PDF and Word.
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• Real Life Literacy
  Connect your students to the real world with the new book Real Life Literacy by Kathy Paterson 25 lessons with reproducible pages help you provide direct instruction on essential tasks such as writing messages, deciphering labels, completing forms, understanding instructions, reading schedules, and more. Browse 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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• Science IDEAS Online, Writing Activities - Journaling
  WRITING ACTIVITIES & JOURNALING Suggested Science Notebook Guidelines Science notebooks are an effective instructional device that allow students to record what they know (prior knowledge), take notes on what they are learning and finally, reflect on what they have learned either by assimilating what has been learned or by revising prior knowledge to accommodate new learning.
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• SCOE: Resources: For the Classroom: Graphic Organizers
  SCOE developed the Organizing Student Thinking (OST) initiative in 2003 in response to an expressed need in Sonoma County schools for research-proven instructional strategies that could be implemented schoolwide to boost the achievement of English learners. It complements and supports Aiming High, a countywide initiative to close the gap for English learners.
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• Secondary Content Teacher Reading Strategies
  This site is appropriate for 4-12. The links are written with directions for using the strategies in a lesson. Vocabulary strategies are included.
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• Six Trait Student Friendly Rubrics
  kimskorner4teachertalk.com SIX-TRAIT ANALYTIC WRITING MODEL RUBRICS This site contains the rubrics Kim uses, plus links to others.
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• Six Traits Writing PowerPoint Fox Valley Writing Project Teaching Resources
  This site has multiple resources, but the PowerPoint The Six Traits of Writing (PowerPoint) Jody Drake and Jennifer Heidl-Knobloch is a student-friendly overview of the 6 traits. You would need to add the + 1 trait of presentation.
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• Six-Trait Writing Rubric, Student-Friendly Version (Grades 3–8)
  This is an example of a student-friendly rubric.
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• Standards-based Writing Rubrics from Greece Central School District NY
  Rubrics provide clear criteria for evaluating a product or performance on a continuum of quality. Rubrics are not simply checklists with point distributions or lists of requirements. Includes characterisitcs of well designed rubrics.
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• Student Inquiry in the Research Process
  This website has been designed to help guide fellow educators toward developing lesson plans for student inquirers. Peruse the suggested reading to further your understanding, sample the Instructor Guides, and use the worksheets and overheads that have been tested in K-12 classrooms and library media centers.
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• Talking About Writing (DVD): (Grades 3-5)
  Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi write, "Writing conferences can be difficult to manage, and it's tempting to omit them from the workshop, but these one-to-one interactions are crucial. Writers need response, not only from their peers but from us as well." In this two-part series we revisit (See When Students Write by the same authors) Bailey's Elementary school on the outskirts of Washington, DC, to watch and listen as accomplished teachers confer with students about their writing.
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