Grade level K-12 Written and edited by Barry Lane 
Barry Lane’s Reviser’s Toolbox gives teachers classroom ready examples and lessons to share revision concepts like leads, endings, snapshots, thoughtshots, exploded moments and scenes with their students. 
This book can sit write beside your lesson planner and help you all year long.

The Reviser's Toolbox

Reference

Lane, Barry

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Discover Writing Press

Writing powerful persuasive prose begins by stirring up voices deep within the writer. As readers, we remember some of these voices of passion, humor, hope and chutzpah. We forget all the bureaucratic, jargon-filled position papers that mask real voices with dead words pinned in paragraphs on the page. There have been many great books on teaching the rhetoric of persuasion, but few tackle the complex art of liberating the dynamic voices of the student persuaders themselves. Why We Must Run With Scissors-- Voice Lessons in Persuasive Writing shows teachers how to approach persuasive writing from the inside out, teaching not only the craft of persuasion, but also the wild and crazy art that informs it. Composed of 83 practical, classroom-ready lessons with examples of student writing from grades 3 to 12, this unique and user-friendly professional book provides teachers with an idea-packed curriculum for sparking a class of creative and savvy persuaders. Inside you will find lessons on: * Exploring your personal persuasive power * Imagining your audience * Finding persuasion in all forms of literature * Mining passionate opinions from the real world (fix size of dot) * Using humor and parody to teach persuasion * Digging beneath an entrenched position * Finding your own distinct voice, even when writing to a uniform prompt * Dressing as the Enemy * Crafting beginnings and endings * Learning the secrets of elaboration * Acing the state persuasive writing test without ?. . . * Assessing our arguments and efforts with sample student papers * Using rubrics and other tools for student self-evaluation ..........and much, much more.

Why We Must Run With Scissors: Voice Lesson in Persuasive Writing

Bernabei, Gretchen

Words, Language & Grammar

Hey Kids... Get out of your seat and LEARN ON YOUR FEET! 
Research shows students grasp concepts and remember more when they get out of their seats and move through a lesson. Yet many students and teachers still sit behind heavy desks, increasingly weighed down by the latest state standards. If only teachers had a practical resource for teaching mandated curriculum in a dynamic way that involves all their students and creates a joyous, inclusive classroom environment, while at the same time nailing those state standards. 
Now they do. "Learning on Their Feet: a Sourcebook for Kinesthetic Learning Across the Curriculum K-8" is the first comprehensive resource on teaching body-based learning in four curriculum areas: Social Studies, Science, Math and Language Arts. As user-friendly as it is all encompassing, this dynamic sourcebook will give teachers K-8 a slew of practical lessons to lead their students out of their seats and into their smart bodies of knowledge. 
Lessons Include: 
* Finding your own comfort zone as a kinesthetic teacher 
* Teaching the basic skills, like Math facts and History dates the fun way . 
* Dynamic activities that level the playing field for all students 
* Writing and performing funny plays that use student research 
* Learning about the American Revolution from the inside out 
* Conceptualizing place value through drama 
* Exploring the Rain Forest ecosystem through living statues 
* Chant Dancing your way through the life cycle of the butterfly 
* Personifying Gods and Goddesses via game shows 
* Acting out the parts of a tree 
* Dramatizing photosynthesis, digestion, and the circulatory system 
* Holding tall tale exaggeration contests 
* Acting out any story, concept, or event with a manageable structure 
* Becoming Dr. Vocabulary, and discovering new words in extraordinary places 
* Helping a sleeping Jefferson write the Declaration of Independence 
* Play "Passing the Bill" game while learning about the democratic process 
* Improvising your way into persuasive writing 
* Personifying any object or person to help comprehend it's point of view 
* Learning about writing transitions by playing transition ball and much, much more!

Learning on Their Feet: A Sourcebook for Kinesthetic Learning Across the Curriculum K-8

Education & Teaching

Carol Glynn

Schools & Teaching

ORGANIZED TO LAST is not just a book about getting organized, it's a book about staying organized. Using FOCUS principles and her 5 Simple Steps, author and master organizer Porter Knight will help you take control of your life one pile at a time. With Porter at your side, you will build a lasting organizational system tailored to your own individual lifestyle. Designed with short, easy to read segments and compelling video clips of people like you, this unique book and DVD action guide will cajole you to put it down and get to work. 
If your desk is buried under piles of paper; if your projects are waiting to be finished; if your closet floor is lost under mounds of clothes or boxes waiting to be sorted; if your garage is so full that your car is parked outside, then you need ORGANIZED TO LAST. But, you say, you probably need to get organized, but you don't need or want a thick book with a cumbersome organization system that you will follow diligently for three days and then abandon forever. You don't need more file folders or containers or drawer organizers. You don't really even need inspiration. YOU NEED YOUR LIFE BACK! "This simple book and fun-to-watch DVD make getting organized...and staying organized...a whole lot easier. Porter's unique approach will help you look at your systems in a new way." --Barry J. Izak, President, National Assoc. of Professional Organizers

Organized To Last: 5 Simple Steps To Staying Organized

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Knight, Porter Ball

Home Improvement & Design

Barry Lane takes the viewing student through history as he travels back in time to Ft. Ticonderoga, where he and Ethan Allen show how to use your imagination on a writing test. The scenes depicted throughout this lively, humorous and engaging 30 minute DVD will have students and teachers alike glued to their monitors. Barry visits farms, a bank, the local garage and many more exciting places as he prompts students with humor and intrigue, showing them the way to creative and imaginative writing.

Hooked on Meaning: Writing Craft Video Lessons That Improve Achievement on Writing Tests Through Authentic Instruction for Students Grades 3-8

IShel 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: Serious Grammar with a Sense of Humor

Cathy Campbell

They followed their Momma's wishes. They followed their own dreams. But more importantly, they followed the Rules! Meet the Comma kids who leave their home sentence to go out into the world and find sentences of their own. Along the way they experience love, heartache, adventure, and doubt, but they persevere in their quest to save sentences. Read this zany story, learn Momma Comma's punctuation songs, and before you know it, you will have mastered 6 comma rules--plus a whole lot of grammar. Correction: Songs from the book are available at soundcloud dot com backward slash commamomma You can also get there from the QR code on the book.

Comma Quest: The Rules They Followed. The Sentences they Saved

Lesley Roessing

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