Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

This 7th grade 6 trait writing program is proven to help build confidence and strength in your students for their writing. 

As shown in the pictures, it has weekly lesson plans dedicated to each of the 6 traits. The book includes pages to guide you in how to use the lesson plans and student pages. It includes pre-made rubrics too! 

As a bonus, there’s a laminated quick glance writing tips and tricks foldable included with the book to help you quickly refer to key writing components. 

Make a difference in their writing with this amazing book!  

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Oklahoma

English

Scaffolded, explicit instruction improves your 7th graders' writing! The 25 weekly units provide trait-based writing practice, covering the essential traits of strong writing: ideas, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, voice, & conventions.

Daily 6-Trait Writing Grade 7

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Celia Genishi

Donna E. Alvermann

More and more, students rely on technology for daily tasks. One of the key areas this manifests is through writing. As teachers, we need to learn how to use their technology to our advantage. 

This book is a crash course on this idea. It guides you through step by step how to gain their attention and use technology in the classroom for writing. It teaches you how to be successful in the elementary, middle, and high school levels. It even gives suggestions for building up to college. 

If you want to take back control over technology in teaching writing, this book is for you. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Technology, Change, and Assessment in the 21st-Century Classroom

How has the teaching of writing changed in the 21st century? In this innovative guide, real teachers share their stories, successful practices, and vivid examples of their students’ creative and expository writing from online and multimedia projects, such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, electronic poetry, and more. The book also addresses assessment: How can teachers navigate the reductive definitions of writing in current national and statewide testing? What are teachers’ goals for their students’ learning—and how have they changed in the past 20 years? What is “the new writing”? How do digital writers revise and publish? What are the implications for the future of writing instruction? The contributing authors are teachers from public, independent, rural, urban, and suburban schools. Whether writing instructors embrace digital literacy now or see the inevitable future ahead, this groundbreaking book (appropriate for the elementary through college level) will both instruct and inspire.

Teaching the New Writing

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The Modern Language Association of America

Having to write an MLA research paper? Tutoring a student who needs to MLA cite? Needing to teach yourself or your kid how to use MLA? No matter your purpose, this book is your lifesaver. 

This book goes in depth about every possible MLA citation you could need. Additionally, it gives examples of formatting for each one too. It also provides exceptions to the rules and general tips and tricks. 

No matter if you’re a student, homeschool parent, tutor, or teacher, this book is a must have for your shelf if you need to cover MLA citations. 

Previous title: MLA handbook for writers of research papers.

MLA Handbook

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Marcus Conyers

Donna Wilson

Just getting started teaching? Or maybe you want some professional development for your teaching style? Either way, this book is a valuable resource for getting to the core of being an effective teacher. 

Each big idea for effective teaching is accompanied by vignettes, examples, and true stories from other teachers to help give additional insight into how you can be the best version of yourself teaching. 

Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education Research to Classroom Practice

As the Common Core State Standards aim to align educational outcomes with college and work expectations in the 21st century, the goal of teaching expands from a basic transmission of facts to the development of cognitive skills that equip students to achieve more of their unique potential. This seminal book focuses on five essential and interrelated concepts from mind, brain, and education research that should underlie key teaching decisions:

1) neuroplasticity, understanding that the structure and function of the brain change in response to learning.

2) potential, the capacity for all students to make learning gains.

3) malleable intelligence, which stands in opposition to traditional views of fixed intellect.

4) the Body-Brain System, the role of movement, physical fitness, healthy nutrition, and positive emotions in facilitating learning.

5) metacognition, explicit instruction on the use of cognitive strategies to guide students to "think about their thinking" with the aim of improving learning.

To support classroom implementation, the authors offer a wealth of vignettes, examples, teaching strategies, reflective questions, and connections between current research on how people learn and classroom practice. The text concludes by unmasking myths and misconceptions that may obscure these core concepts and promoting active participation in formal and informal professional learning communities to hone teaching practice throughout one's career.

Five Big Ideas for Effective Teaching

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M. H. Abrams

Geoffrey G. Harpham

This book is wealth of information about various literary terms needed to understand the English language. I used it for reference while teaching middle school, but it’s caters more towards the high school and above demographic. 

There are 2 ways to look up words in this book: by author and by term. The note at the beginning of the book walks you through this. 

A handy resource for your high school and college writing! 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

This text defines and discusses terms, critical theories, and points of view that are commonly used to classify, analyse, interpret, and write the history of works of literature. The Glossary presents a series of essays in alphabetic order.

Courtney Arnold

@courtney554814

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Celia Genishi; Donna E. Alvermann

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Five Big Ideas for Effective Teaching

M. H. Abrams; Geoffrey G. Harpham

A Glossary of Literary Terms

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