Research and experience show that writers need three things: ownership of the form and subject of their writing; feedback from other writers; and time to draft and revise. Yet the harsh and confusing reality of today's college-entrance and state-mandated examinations-or any test with an essay component-is that students, trained in writing workshops, go on the clock to compose a paper on an assigned topic, in a prescribed form, for which they will receive no feedback. ...And their future depends on it. In Writing on Demand, you'll discover how to help your students gain the valuable skills they need to succeed on the essay portions of the SAT, ACT, Advanced Placement, and other exams and to help them develop as writers. Anne Ruggles Gere, Leila Christenbury, and Kelly Sassi take you through the entire testing process, offering insights on several key strategies for on-demand writing, including how to: <ul>
<li>quickly decode writing prompts to uncover the goals and expectations of the assignment</li> <li>organize thoughts swiftly and use the allotted time efficiently </li> <li>understand how tests are scored </li> <li>approach the scorers as an audience</li> </ul>
Most importantly, they show you how integrate these strategies into a program of best practices instead of mere test prep. In addition, a companion website offers more than 50 downloadable prompts, sample student essays, grading rubrics, and minilessons that give you a chance to aid your students in understanding this specialized genre and to use their composing skills in this artificially compressed version of the writing process. Give your students the opportunity to develop the proficiency and confidence they need to succeed in on-demand writing situations without abandoning the principles behind your writing workshop. Read Writing on Demand and find out how students can not only beat the clock, but write well-even in the most trying conditions for writers.

Writing on Demand: Best Practices and Strategies for Success

Reference

Christenbury, Leila

Gere, Anne Ruggles

Sassi, Kelly

Words, Language & Grammar

Heinemann

Making the Journey is a staple of secondary English methods courses and teacher libraries because it not only provides practical advice on what to do in the classroom and how to act, but also offers a realistic but optimistic sense of what it means to embrace the practice of good teaching. Now, trusted educator, writer, and researcher Leila Christenbury has returned with a remarkable new edition of her classic. The third edition of Making the Journey will be both refreshingly new and satisfyingly familiar to those who’ve come to rely on Christenbury’s wisdom and uncommon common sense. Every chapter has been revised and updated with new examples, the latest research, and stories from today’s classrooms. Even more important, Christenbury has devoted new sections to discussing instructional and political topics crucial to the contemporary teacher

Making the Journey, Third Edition: Being and Becoming a Teacher of English Language Arts

Lindblom, Ken

Get ready to write to the prompt. Get A Student Guide to Writing on Demand and prepare for testing in a new way that: 
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<li>eases concerns about timed writing situations</li> <li>increases familiarity with the forms encountered in testing</li> <li>boosts scores on standardized writing tests.</li> </ul>
A Student Guide to Writing on Demand helps build up a bank of writing and coping strategies that can be drawn from during live testing. Be ready for success with: <ul>
<li>flash writes for self-reflection</li> <li>opportunities for pressure-free timed writing</li> <li>exercises and activities designed to mimic testing situations.</li> </ul> Preempt the prompt with A Student Guide to Writing on Demand.

A Student Guide to Writing on Demand: Strategies for High-Scoring Essays

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This book is nothing short of fantastic. - Leila Christenbury, coauthor of Writing on Demand
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When you search for ways to help reluctant readers, the often esoteric world of literary theory may not seem like a natural place to start. Yet in How Does It Mean? you'll discover that the core ideas of literary theories translate into immediately useful strategies that spark students' interest and encourage them to adopt a more active role in their own reading. How Does It Mean? takes literary theory out of the ivory tower, makes it useful and accessible, and places it squarely into your teaching repertoire. With reading strategies and instructional methods that draw on five well-known theories - Jungian/archetypal theory, objective theory, reader response theory, biographical theory, and thematic critical theory - Lisa Schade Eckert shows you how to offer reluctant readers a pathway into texts through theory as you explicitly introduce them to reading and discussing literature. Eckert also gives you opportunities to differentiate instruction and to meet language arts standards using theory applications as well as to scaffold other popular strategies such as questioning the text, questioning the author, rereading, and connecting to prior knowledge. How Does It Mean? teases out opportunities to explicitly teach reading strategies, positions literary theory as a comprehension strategy for secondary English classrooms, balances content and knowledge by using flexible instructional methods, and models ways in which teachers can encourage critical reading. Best of all, it provides a new way to teach so that all students, especially reluctant ones, come to appreciate literary texts.

How Does It Mean?: Engaging Reluctant Readers Through Literary Theory

Schade-Eckert, Lisa

Save 20% when you buy A Student Guide to Writing on Demand (Discount reflected in the price above.)  Get ready to write to the prompt. Get A Student Guide to Writing on Demand and prepare for testing in a new way that:   eases concerns about timed writing situations  increases familiarity with the forms encountered in testing  boosts scores on standardized writing tests.   A Student Guide to Writing on Demand helps build up a bank of writing and coping strategies that can be drawn from during live testing. Be ready for success with:  flash writes for self-reflection  opportunities for pressure-free timed writing  exercises and activities designed to mimic testing situations.   Preempt the prompt with A Student Guide to Writing on Demand.  

A Student Guide to Writing on Demand: Strategies for High-School-Scoring Essays (Ten-Pack)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

What will students be asked to do when faced with the writing tasks on the Common Core State Standards assessments? What are the instructional shifts teachers will need to make so that students can understand and master them? Kelly Sassi and Anne Ruggles Gere unpack the PARCC and Smarter Balanced approaches to writing assessment, and provide effective strategies to help students develop as writers as well as prepare for the new writing tasks. Writing on Demand for the Common Core State Standard Assessments provides teachers with the principles of effective writing and then shows how to apply those principles to the Common Core assessments. Samples of performance tasks with student responses illustrate the importance of helping writers: <ul>
<li>analyze prompts, including those of Smarter Balanced and PARCC </li> <li>build reading skills that support text-dependent writing </li> <li>transfer writing strategies to science and social studies </li> <li>manage time in a digital space. </li> </ul>
Producing an effective piece of writing can be challenging in any timed writing context. Give your students the strategies they'll need to succeed on the Common Core State Standards writing assessments- and become better writers for life.

Writing on Demand for the Common Core State Standards Assessments

Leila Christenbury's Making the Journey has long been a beloved classic in English methods courses as well as with in-service English teachers whose dog-eared copies occupy a permanent place on their classroom desks. The Fourth Edition adds a fresh new voice from veteran English Education professor Ken Lindblom, whose expertise in writing instruction, teaching with technology, and teaching informational and nonfiction texts complements Leila's love of literature and vast knowledge and experience across the field. You'll find brand new content on: - CCSS and other college-and career-ready standards and assessments - Genre studies, with special attention to informational nonfiction - Digital literacies and technologies for teaching - Classroom management and communicating with parents, administrators, and colleagues - Teaching ELLs and students with special needs. Leila and Ken's timeless advice, humorous anecdotes, and stories of successes and failures in the classroom infuse Making the Journey with life and light, and instill confidence in soon-to-be English teachers. Though ever reflective of the current realities of teaching, and chock full of stories about real students and their struggles and triumphs, the Fourth Edition remains a beacon of hope and optimism for all those willing to enter the greatest profession.

Making the Journey, Fourth Edition: Being and Becoming a Teacher of English Language Arts

Teaching English by Design has become a classic resource for preservice teachers as well as in-service teachers who consider it their go-to guide to creating lessons and units organized around key concepts. In the Second Edition, Peter Smagorinsky updates the content for today's teachers with discussions of New Literacies, using technology in the classroom, LGBTQ issues, and an expansive new chapter on preparing for Beginning Teacher Performance Assessments. He also brings in a fresh new voice and outlook from Darren Rhym, a high school teacher in rural Georgia. Following a new chapter on "Teaching Stressed Students Under Stressful Circumstances," Peter and Darren collaborated to create a unit on Power and Race. Designed to help students develop agency in improving their lives and those of the people in their communities, this sample unit provides a practical framework for addressing the needs of low-SES students who rely on limited resources. Together with Peter's unique insight about students, how they learn, and the kinds of classrooms that support their achievement, Teaching English by Design, 2/e is more valuable and relevant than ever.

Teaching English by Design, Second Edition: How to Create and Carry Out Instructional Units

Smagorinsky, Peter

Statement by Bab: It is only just and fair that the Upper House at least should know of the injustice of my exile and that it is all the result of Circumstances over which I had no controll.

Elements of Literature, Grade 6 Introductory Course: Holt Elements of Literature Pennsylvania (Eolit 2009)

Children's Books

Appleman, Deborah

Jago, Carol

Beers, Kylene

Kajder, Sara

Education & Reference

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

Short excerpt: For ten years no man of them had set eyes upon the face of the boy-king who had been hastened to the grim castle of Blentz upon the death of the old king his father.

Elements of Literature, Grade 7 First Course: Holt Elements of Literature Ohio (Eolit 2009)

Teen & Young Adult

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