Learn more about the Heinemann Seminar based on this book: Inside the Teaching of Writing Your curriculum is packed, and you have barely enough instructional time to teach students essential writing skills, let alone how to combine those skills to form cohesive, compelling work. Fortunately, there is a solution to the time crunch, a quicker, more effective way to help children understand the complexities of writing, and Don Graves and Penny Kittle are ready to share it with you. In Inside Writing, Graves and Kittle show you the power behind an apprenticeship approach to writing instruction where you mentor students using your own writing-even if you don't consider yourself a writer. Inside Writing is a practical, flexible three-part program that gives you numerous entryways for learning how to model the central elements of the craft:  topic choice  rereading  details  response  conventions  the writing life.   Begin with any aspect of Inside Writing, and you'll discover new insights about high-quality writing instruction. The DVD: go inside real classrooms to watch as teachers from grades 2-6 demonstrate their writing process for students, and hear teachers and students share what a difference this teaching technique makes; hear commentary tracks from Graves and Kittle that underscore important instructional moments; listen in as the authors discuss their own writing processes; and print seventy-eight quick-writes prompts form your computer's DVD drive. The book: read about the voluminous research that supports the efficacy of the apprenticeship method for teaching children to write; strengthen the link between instructional theory and your own day-to-day classroom-teaching practices; and gain a new understanding of the role of writing in both your students' lives and yours.  My Quick Writes notebook: Use Graves' favorite Quick Write topics to practice your own writing and reflect on it; find prompts for in-class quick writes with children that prepare them for timed testing situations without giving over your writing workshop to mere test prep; and make connections between your writing process and your students'. Sharpen your writing instruction by learning to trust your own writing. Then teach your students in a powerful, lasting way that will help them to not only understand the elements of writing, but also to combine them into better finished products. Apprentice yourself to Donald Graves and Penny Kittle and go Inside Writing. Click here for a brief walkthrough of the book, notebook and DVD.

Inside Writing: How to Teach the Details of Craft

Politics & Social Sciences

Donald H. Graves

Social Sciences

Heinemann Educational Books

Part writer's notebook and part sourcebook, My Quick Writes includes more than sixty of Donald Graves' favorite and most effective prompts for practicing and reflecting on your own writing processes. Graves and Penny Kittle walk you through how to do Quick Writes and the role they play in their own writing and teaching. Then they offer you ample personal space for doing them yourself. You'll try out new ideas, techniques, and genres, such as: <ul>
<li>thinking and writing from different points of view</li> <li>writing poems</li> <li>putting together personal narratives</li> <li>turning favorite or poignant letters into essays</li> <li>creating fiction.</li> </ul>
In addition, Graves and Kittle present seventeen prompts to try with your students. With these prompts, you'll connect the experience of doing Quick Writes on your own to your students' experiences with them, while at the same time helping children prepare for timed writing tests without giving over your writing workshop to test prep. My Quick Writes is the hands-on way to practice and reflect on your writing process as you implement the apprenticeship model for teaching writing described in Inside Writing. Even if you don't consider yourself a writer, join Donald Graves and Penny Kittle and learn more about your writing and that of your students with My Quick Writes.

My Quick Writes For INSIDE WRITING

Penny Kittle

Children's Books

Heinemann

Writing is a developing process, a fact well demonstrated here in this collection of Donald Graves's writings on writing. In reviewing the highlights of twenty years of research, you can see his own abilities as a writer change and grow.   To learn more about Donald Graves, visit www.donaldgraves.org.

Researcher Learns to Write

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Heinemann Educ.

Investigate Nonfiction

Words, Language & Grammar

The reading and writing processes have historically been kept apart, but with this series you can explore their richness for yourself and your students in ways that unite the processes meaningfully and productively. Discover Your Own Literacy This volume offers a look at some teachers who combined their own explorations in literacy with their students, encouraging teachers to experiment with their own writing, reading, listening, and learning. The "Actions" here help make the transition from basals to trade books, abolish reading groups, and discover learning episodes with children. To learn more about Donald Graves, visit www.donaldgraves.org.

Discover Your Own Literacy (The Reading / Writing Teacher's Companion)

Build a Literate Classroom (The Reading / Writing Teacher's Companion)

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