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Morgan, Michaela – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Now in a fully revised and extended second edition, "How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 8-13" is a practical and activity based resource of writing workshops to help you teach poetry in the primary classroom. Designed to help build writing, speaking and listening skills, this book contains a wide selection of workshops exemplifying a…
Descriptors: Writing Workshops, Literacy, Listening Skills, Poetry
Morris, Lisa – Eye on Education, 2012
Master teacher Lisa Morris invites you to share her secrets of success with writer's workshops. After years of experimenting with the workshop model, she has developed the most effective ways to apply it in the classroom, yielding higher test scores and increased student engagement. Through practical, step-by-step instruction, Morris demonstrates…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Mentors, Writing Processes, Writing Workshops
Buckner, Aimee – Stenhouse Publishers, 2009
In "Notebook Know-How", Aimee Buckner demonstrated the power of notebooks to spark and capture students' ideas in the writing workshop. In "Notebook Connections", she turns her focus to the reading workshop, showing how to transform those "couch-potato" readers into deep thinkers. Buckner's fourth-grade students use reader's notebooks as a place…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Writing Workshops, Models, Student Journals
Morgan, Bruce – Stenhouse Publishers, 2004
No longer little children, but not yet teenagers, tweens are beginning to see themselves as autonomous while still struggling to understand where they fit in. It can also be an awkward time for teachers who cherish the hilarious and poignant personalities of tween writers, but feel pressured by a new emphasis on testing in the intermediate grades.…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Workshops, Writing Tests, Reading Strategies
National Council of Teachers of English, 2004
Based on a view of literacy as social practice, this book highlights the ways in which classroom teachers and educators have practiced and imagined teaching literacy in everyday classrooms. The twelve essays published here originally appeared in the NCTE journal Primary Voices K-6 and highlight four key issues essential to literacy practice in…
Descriptors: Units of Study, Classroom Techniques, Writing Workshops, Bilingual Education
Calkins, Lucy McCormick; Harwayne, Shelley – 1991
Intended for both experienced and novice K-12 teachers, this book invites teachers to bring new life into the reading-writing workshop and calls for teachers to push back the frontiers of their thinking about teaching writing and reading. The book includes chapters on establishing courses of study in which children read and write memoir, picture…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Instruction