Enter into a written journey of self-exploration. With scores of inspiring exercises and motivating examples author Barry Lane leads the reader through the three "r"s of writing: Remembering: digging up old stories. Reframing: questioning and re-seeing the past. Re-experiencing: reliving old stories with new eyes If you've every felt your writing could be a highway to insight, this book was written to be your road map.

Writing As A Road To Self-Discovery

Self-Help

Barry Lane

Personal Transformation

Discover Writing Company

An ageless and universal prayer comes to life in this board book format with DVD animation. Designed for young children of all faiths to enjoy, the animation employs each page of the book and, with the lyrical voices of children as the soundtrack, becomes a visual interpretation of the prayer in motion. The inspirational artwork reflects the peaceful sentiments expressed in these gentle yet powerful words, which honor every place where God is praised. The large letters, simple language, and animated DVD make the prayer accessible to even the youngest reader. Blessed Is the Spot is perfect for children's spiritual classes, interfaith events, devotionals, and peace-keeping gatherings. The prayer comes from the Baha'i sacred texts. Founded in the early 1800's by Baha'u'llah, the Baha'i Faith is an independent world religion based on Baha'u'llah's teachings.

Blessed Is the Spot: A First Prayer Book

Religion & Spirituality

Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts

As much a writing text as a self-help guide, THE HEALING PEN will help you craft a better life through your writing and better writing through your life. The three sections of the book, Remembering, Reframing and Re-experiencing, launch the reader into an exploratory jorney that examines the past, brings to it knowledge of the present, and creates a new future fueled by this knowledge. With scores of writing exercises and compelling eamples from grade school children to prisoners, to college students and adult literacy students, author Barry Lane illustrates how to transform painful memories into writing gems that can bring both the writer and the reader to healing and understanding.

The Healing Pen: Writing Your Way to Inner Peace and Outer Transformation

Motivational

VOCABULARY UNPLUGGED'S goal as a book is to share neurocentric ways to unplug vocabulary and spelling instruction so that words are not merely memorized in the name of the most current curriculum, but rather truly learned and owned by students. The goal is to have words actually permeate students speech as well as their writing. The strategies proffered in Vocabulary Unplugged are not bound to a specific age or grade level, as they draw on accepted knowledge of the brain, memory and learning, whether the learner is five, fifteen, or seventy-nine. So, slip inside these pages and unplug the lists, the passivity, and the overhead. Get out of the dark classroom, and discover the energy that emerges from the thirty activities and variations herein as we plug in color, movement, poetry, history, music, and numerous other ways of exploring words within meaningful contexts. The 30 brain-appropriate activities will revitalize your hope that ALL students can improve their vocabulary, reminding everyone that learning doesn't have to be banal, dull or without energy. You will discover information and lessons on: Helping students remember the words they learn Using music to explore words Guiding students success through meaningful instruction Playing with Words to engage learning Using movement to enhance vocabulary Improving memory and vocabulary acquisition through color Understanding the importance of history in vocabulary development Harnessing the power of poetry to build word knowledge Exploring patterns to create dynamic vocabulary lessons Including context for assuring success in word study And much more... Steven Pinker (1994), cognitive psychologist and leading expert on language, says we begin using words around twelve months of age. Therefore, high school graduates, who have been at it for about seventeen years, must have been learning an average of ten new words a day continuously since their first birthdays, or about a new word every ninety waking minutes. He goes on to explain that preliterate children are lexical vacuum cleaners, learning a new word every two waking hours. This means our student are already plugged in having learned numerous words before they ever set foot in our classrooms.

Vocabulary Unplugged: 30 Lessons That Will Revolutionize How You Teach Vocabulary K-12

Reference

Alana Morris

Words, Language & Grammar

Lessons in Revision: The Power of Detail

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

THIS IS THE TEACHER EDITION WITH A CD PACKED WITH POSTERS, QUIZZES AND POWERPOINTS TO HELP TEACH LESSONS IN THIS BOOK. It's Shel Silverstein meets Strunk and White and the results are both hilarious and instructive. With over 120 illustrations and gobs of delightfully goofy examples and exercises, this book provides a lighthearted and ludicrous guide to the essential elements of language and grammar...not to mention a few writing tips thrown into the mix. Grammar has often been taught as joyless process of memorizing rules and diagramming phony sentences, but most writers will tell you that grammar actually promotes a love of language. Not only can the study of grammar be fun and joyful, this unique primer can also be used by adults everywhere who simply need a single volume at the ready to keep them on the straight and narrow...and laughing all the way!

The Giggly Guide to Grammar Teacher's Edition

Cathy Campbell

Gretchen Bernabei's intuitive approach to teaching the personal essay has revolutionized the way teachers teach the essay and transformed how students respond to writing prompts. In this dynamic 45 minute DVD video you will get a personal introduction to these power strategies from Gretchen herself and learn how to immediately implement them into your classroom. You will see Gretchen in action working with 4th graders, high school students and teachers and hear her personal tips for helping students write with voice and passion. You will also find downloadable lessons and student examples to use with your class. Lessons explored include: * Truisms and How to Teach Them * Ba Da Bing (writing strong sentences) * The Kernal Essay * Playing with Text Structures * The 11 minute essay * Using Quick lists to Find Topics * Writing With Voice ALONG WITH THE 45 MINUTE VIDEO, THE DISK CONTAINS OVER 100 PAGES OF WRITING CRAFT LESSONS, TEXT STRUCTURES AND PICTURE PROMPTS FOR WRITING "After I took Gretchen s workshop my TAKS essay scores jumped form 44% passing to 76% passing in one week. ~ Nika Maples, Grade 10, Texas "Wow! I thought after countless hours of writing workshops and training, that I knew how to teach writing! I was wrong! Gretchen showed me a whole bunch of new ways to teach writing to my 4th graders. I can t wait to get back to school tomorrow." ~ Susie Jackson, 4th grade, San Antonio, Texas "Gretchen is awesome. Not only does she have great strategies for helping students become writers, she also has a great down to earth delivery. She brings it home and makes it real. I can t wait to take it back. ~ Carla Blackwell, Grades 9 -12, Lavernia, Texas

Ba-Da-Bing: Creating Essay Writers with Gretchen

Gretchen Bernabei

A Year-long Kindness Curriculum for 30 minutes per Month Kindness and self-knowledge are not explicitly written into most curriculum standards yet they are the most important qualities a child can learn in school for success in a civilized society. More than a collection of songs and lessons, Force Field for Good is an ongoing, year long, practical approach to creating a kindly classroom community of students who share a passion for self-refl ection and aspire to well being for every member of their class. The easy to use, teacher-created lessons foster higher level thinking skills which connect to state standards and teach students how to mine deep meaning from life and literature. Much more than an anti-bullying program, Force Field for Good will have your students joyously singing aloud as you watch them grow into empathetic, courageous and compassionate kids who make their classroom, their school, and their community a zone of love and learning!

Force Field for Good

Barry Lane and Colleen Mestdagh

After years of success in their own classrooms, Kindergarten teachers, Karen Durrick and Julie Pyne, are ready to share their unique literacy strategies called Sound Learning with the world. More than lessons and routines, Sound Learning is an engaging, flexible framework that leads emergent readers into the world of literacy. Sound Learning bundles formerly compartmentalized lessons into real-life literacy including: oral language, letter learning, phonics, blending, genres, concepts of print, letter writing and strategies for encoding and decoding. Why is Sound Learning So Amazing? Because it: Focuses on meaning, not just phonics Develops problem solving with text Helps students experience sounds in context immediately Teaches multiple sounds for letters Incorporates correct letter form learning Links environmental sounds to letters Provides cross-curricular readers Includes multiple genres (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and storytelling) Creates a collaborative process that activates and excites children Aligns to State Standards while being developmentally appropriate and fun

Sound Learning: 12 Weeks to Joyful Literacy

Karen Durrick and Julie Pyne

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