Susan Thurman

Larry Shea

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

English

A One-Stop Source for Every Writing Assignment

The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need is the ideal resource for everyone who wants to produce writing that is clear, concise, and grammatically excellent. Whether you're creating perfect professional documents, spectacular school papers, or effective personal letters, you'll find this handbook indispensable. From word choice to punctuation to organization, English teacher Susan Thurman guides you through getting your thoughts on paper with polish. Using dozens of examples, The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need provides guidelines for: Understanding the parts of speech and elements of a sentence Avoiding the most common grammar and punctuation mistakes Using correct punctuating in every sentence Writing clearly and directly Approaching writing projects, whether big or small Easy to follow and authoritative, The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need provides all the necessary tools to make you successful with every type of written expression.

The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need

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Jim Burke

Joy Krajicek

A Month-By-Month Guide to the Year Ahead

Letters to a New Teacher

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Andrea A. Lunsford

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

PACKAGE THIS TITLE WITH OUR 2016 MLA SUPPLEMENT, Documenting Sources in MLA Style (package ISBN-13: 9781319084677). Get the most recent updates on MLA citation in a convenient, 40-page resource based on The MLA Handbook, 8th Edition, with plenty of models. Browse our catalog or contact your representative for a full listing of updated titles and packages, or to request a custom ISBN. Driven by Andrea Lunsford’s ground-breaking research on student writing habits, EasyWriter: A High School Reference is an essential guide for students looking to make effective academic writing choices. This edition has been specifically designed to meet the needs of the Common Core classroom. To help students work with informational texts, it features an expanded chapter on Critical Thinking and Argument; help with evaluating, integrating, and synthesizing sources to support arguments; and detailed attention to critical reading to strengthen students’ text-based analysis skills. Andrea’s trademark rhetorical approach to the grammar and mechanics of language is enhanced with advice on word choice, expanding vocabulary, and sharpening spelling skills. Coverage of speaking and listening is expanded to include not just public speaking, but participating in classroom discussions, collaborating with peers, and using note-taking strategies to listen actively. You get all this in a pocket handbook that’s easy to use, easy to carry, and easy to afford.

EasyWriter, a High School Reference

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Aimee Buckner

Strategies for the Writer's Notebook

A writer's notebook is an essential springboard for the pieces that will later be crafted in writers' workshop. It is here that students brainstorm topics, play with leads and endings, tweak a new revision strategy, or test out a genre for the first time.

In Notebook Know-How, Aimee Buckner provides the tools teachers need to make writers' notebooks an integral part of their writing programs. She also addresses many of the questions teachers ask when they start using notebooks with their students, including: How do I launch the notebook? What mini-lessons can be used throughout the year to help students become more skilled in keeping notebooks?How do I help students who are stuck in writing ruts with notebooks? How do I help students use their learning from notebooks for other writing? How do I organize notebooks so that the design is flexible, yet still allows students to access information easily?How can writers' notebooks help students become better readers? How do I assess notebooks?

This compact guide is packed with lessons, tips, and samples of student writing to help teachers make the most of writers' notebooks, without sacrificing time needed for the rest of the literacy curriculum. In fact, Notebook Know-How shows how smart and focused use of writers' notebooks enhances and deepens literacy learning in both reading and writing for students in grades 3-8.

Notebook Know-How

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Bonnie Neubauer

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

366 Exercises to Liberate Your Writing

Never face a blank page again! &break;&break;With unique daily prompts and stimulating pages, you'll be able to easily incorporate writing into your life, and you'll never have to face another wordless day. The Write-Brain Workbook is the first of its kind–an easy, fun, and playful way to exercise your creative writing muscles each day. &break;&break; Eliminate the dreaded emptiness of the blank page&break; Write without the pressure of preconceived expectations&break; Learn about your own unique writing process&break; Build the momentum of a quick daily writing practice&break; Unlock writer's block&break; Apply the breakthroughs from daily practice to your "real" writing&break; Expand how you see yourself as a writer&break; Experiment with different ways to approach writing&break; Affirm your commitment to being a writer &break;&break;The Write-Brain Workbook is bursting with 366 innovative exercises that let you experiment and play with words and styles. Whether you love the pure joy of writing, are just getting started, or are trying to get past a particular writing block ... this is the book you've been waiting for!

Write-Brain Workbook

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Hewitt's Guide to Slam Poetry and Poetry Slam

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George Hillocks Jr

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Supporting Claims with Relevant Evidence and Clear Reasoning

"In this book, George Hillocks teaches us not only what an argument is, but how to teach it and why we should. Essential reading for those preparing ALL students to think critically, write well, and succeed academically in both high school and college."
Jim Burke, Author of The English Teacher's Companionand
What's the Big Idea?

Argument writing can be difficult to teach, but it may be the most important set of skills we teach in English. According to the National Common Core Standards, by the end of high school, students should be able to write arguments to support claims with clear reason and relevant evidence-and they should be able to do so well.

Designed for middle and high school students, the activities in this book will enable students to writestrong arguments and evaluate the arguments of others. When they are through, students will be able, as the Common Core Standards ask, to "Delineate and evaluate [an] argument and specific claims...including the validity of the reasoning [and] the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence." Developed by George Hillocks, Jr.and others in diverse inner city classrooms in Chicago, students are easily engaged in the lively problem-solving approach detailed in this book.

Teaching Argument Writingbegins with how to teach simple arguments and moves onto those that are more complex, showing step-by-step how to teach students to write and evaluate:

 * arguments of fact
 * arguments of judgment
 * arguments of policy

Student handouts, activities, and models of classroom discussions are provided to help you bring these methods to your classroom. Among other things, Hillocks guides you through teaching your students:

 * how judgments are made in the real world
 * how to make literary judgments based on criteria
 * how to develop and support criteria for arguments.

Teaching Argument Writing, Grades 6-12

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Jay Heinrichs

Civics

What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us about the Art of Persuasion

Thank You for Arguing is your master class in the art of persuasion, taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill. The time-tested secrets the book discloses include Cicero’s three-step strategy for moving an audience to actionÑas well as Honest Abe’s Shameless Trick of lowering an audience’s expectations by pretending to be unpolished. But it’s also replete with contemporary techniques such as politicians’ use of “code” language to appeal to specific groups and an eye-opening assortment of popular-culture dodges, including:

The Eddie Haskell Ploy
Eminem’s Rules of Decorum
The Belushi Paradigm
Stalin’s Timing Secret
The Yoda Technique

Whether you’re an inveterate lover of language books or just want to win a lot more anger-free arguments on the page, at the podium, or over a beer, Thank You for Arguing is for you. Written by one of today’s most popular online language mavens, it’s warm, witty, erudite, and truly enlightening. It not only teaches you how to recognize a paralipsis and a chiasmus when you hear them, but also how to wield such handy and persuasive weapons the next time you really, really want to get your own way.

Thank You for Arguing

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Tamra B. Orr

Art, music, drama/theater

Provides tips and examples of how to research and present debates.

F. W. Prep: Extraordinary Debates

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Justin Marshall

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How to Write an Essay

Sparknotes Ultimate Style

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Georgia Heard

Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School

Fans of the best-selling For the Good of the Earth and Sunwill applaud this sequel by beloved author Georgia Heard - an inspiring and practical handbook that celebrates the natural power of poetry to teach the essential tools of all writing.

Awakening the Heartexplores how to cultivate the poet in every elementary and middle school student - through well-drawn examples, detailed exercises, creative projects, and down-to-earth classroom teachings. Along the way, we learn how to: create environments that encourage children to express their innate sense of wonder; introduce poetry that will engage them; and help children make the transition from reading and talking to writing.

Best of all, Awakening the Heartis filled with luminous poems - by children, famous poets, and Heard herself.

Awakening the Heart

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Gretchen Bernabei

Jayne Hover

Cynthia Candler

Lessons to Help Students Blow the Roof off Writing Tests--And Become Better Writers in the Process

"Our schools should be accountable, but do they have to become joyless halls of drudgery? I'm not against measuring student achievement and learning. But can't we develop lessons that use the best of what we know about learning and about children, lessons informed by research and results, lessons that include color, life, conversation and laughter?"-Gretchen Bernabei

 * Crunchtime is a practical grab-and-go resource for teachers.
 * Crunchtime strategies are engaging and fun for students.
 * Crunchtime is especially effective in helping struggling writers, including English language learners.

In this eagerly-anticipated teacher resource, master teachers Gretchen Bernabei, Jayne Hover, and Cynthia Candler share writing lessons that are healthy for kids, promote lifelong literacy, and, coincidentally, will help your students blow the roof off of their state test scores. Organized around the writing process-selecting topics, crafting drafts, and polishing finished pieces-explicit lessons engage student writers while shoring up the gaps between learning and testing. Growing out of their own work in Title I schools, Gretchen, Jayne, and Cynthia's strategies have proven to be especially effective in helping ESL and special education students, not only pass the test, but achieve commended performance. In addition to providing classroom-tested strategies, this practical teaching resource provides a wealth of crunchtime tools (rubrics, reproducibles, and writing samples) minilessons, and lesson plans that will help you teach strategically and position your students for success on their state writing tests and beyond.

Crunchtime includes the following downloadable resources: 4-week planner [http://www.heinemann.com/shared/companionResources/E02673/4wkplanner.pdf], writing prompts [http://www.heinemann.com/shared/companionResources/E02673/prompts.pdf], and reproducibles [http://www.heinemann.com/shared/companionResources/E02673/reproducibles.pdf].

Crunchtime

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Troy Hicks

"We believe new technologies can advance both the teaching and learning of writing." -The National Commission on Writing in American Schools and Colleges,

The Neglected 'R': The Need for a Writing Revolution, 2003.

Years later and we're still waiting to see how it can really be done.

The wait is over.

"In clean, clear prose that unravels the labyrinth of new terms and applications, Troy guides us towards a writing workshop for this age. His steady, smart advice eases the transition between the elements of writing workshop we know matter to the tools that can take each to a new place, one comfortably familiar, but with a decidedly updated feel. And this man has his priorities straight. He focuses first on the writer, then on the writing, and lastly on the technology."

-Penny Kittle
Author of Write Beside Them

Troy Hicks holds sight on good writing workshop instruction. Where others have talked about new technologies and how they change writing, Hicks shows you how to usenew technologies to enhance the teaching of writing you already do. Chapters are organized around the familiar principles of the writing workshop: student choice, active revision, studying author's craft, publication beyond the classroom, and assessment of both product and process. In each chapter you'll learn how to expand and improve your teaching by smartly incorporating new technologies like wikis, blogs, and other forms of multimedia. Throughout, you'll find reference to resources readily available to you and your class online. He also includes a practical set of lessons for how to use wikis to explore a key concept in digital writing: copyright.

New literacies are developing around us at what sometimes seems like the speed of light. It's hard to keep it all in focus. Let Troy Hicks guide you through the complexities of what it all means for your classroom so your students' writing can grow right in step with our changing times and technologies.

Troy Hicks hosts a companion website where teachers are connecting, sharing ideas, and learning more about teaching digital writing in K-12 classrooms.

Join the discussion at
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The Digital Writing Workshop

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Meenoo Rami

Reading & Language Arts

5 Ways to (Re)Invigorate Your Teaching

Download a sample chapter As a novice teacher, Meenoo Rami experienced the same anxieties shared by many: the sense of isolation, lack of self-confidence, and fear that her work was having no positive impact on her students. In Thrive, Meenoo shares the five strategies that helped her become a confident, connected teacher. From how to find mentors and build networks, both online and off, to advocating for yourself and empowering your students, Thrive shows new and veteran teachers alike how to overcome the challenges and meet the demands of our profession. Praise for Thrive "Whether you are entering your first year of teaching or your 40th, Thrive feels as if it were written just for you. At a time in our profession when many of us are feeling stretched thin, Meenoo Rami offers strategies to reignite our passions and rediscover why we chose to teach." -Christopher Lehman, coauthor of Falling in Love with Close Reading "Teaching is a profession that eats its young. Meenoo Rami offers guidelines for surviving the challenges of the classroom as well as the faculty room." -Carol Jago, author, teacher, and past president of NCTE "Thrive includes a mosaic of dynamic teacher voices from many grade levels and content areas. Reading their stories deepened my thinking about the immense untapped potential of our profession. Meenoo Rami's vision of teaching and learning can sustain us all." -Penny Kittle, author of Book Love Join the conversation on Twitter at #edthrive.

Thrive

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Donalyn Miller

Jeff Anderson

Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

Known for her popular blog, "The Book Whisperer, " Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year. She shares her teaching methods and includes a dynamite list of recommended "kid lit" that helps parents and teachers find the books that students really like to read.

The Book Whisperer

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Audra Jensen

Michelle Garcia Winner

Building Social Thinking and Reading Comprehension Through Book Chats

I Get It!

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Vicky M. Giouroukakis

Maureen Connolly

How to Meet the Common Core State Standards with Lessons from the Classroom

Presents lesson plans, classroom activities, and worksheets for teachers of English Language Arts to help them meet the Common Core State Standards in their English curriculum.

Getting to the Core of English Language Arts, Grades 6-12

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Edgar C. Alward

Jean A. Alward

Punctuation Plain and Simple

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Scott Herndon

Jen Weiss

The YOUTH SPEAKS Guide to Teaching Spoken Word Poetry

Utilizing student examples from their spoken word poetry workshops, Weiss and Herndon present their methods and outline a practical five-week course that fosters poetic awareness.

Brave New Voices

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Craig Morgan Teicher

How Poets Progress

One of our most perceptive critics on the ways that poets develop poems, a career, and a life Though it seems, at first, like an art of speaking, poetry is an art of listening. The poet trains to hear clearly and, as much as possible, without interruption, the voice of his or her mind, the voice that gathers, packs with meaning, and unpacks the language he or she knows. It can take a long time to learn to let this voice speak without getting in its way. This slow learning, the growth of this habit of inner attentiveness, is poetic development, and it is the substance of the poet’s art. Of course, this growth is rarely steady, never linear, and is sometimes not actually growth but diminishment—that’s all part of the compelling story of a poet’s way forward. —from the Introduction “The staggering thing about a life’s work is it takes a lifetime to complete,” Craig Morgan Teicher writes in these luminous essays. We Begin in Gladness considers how poets start out, how they learn to hear themselves, and how some offer us that rare, glittering thing: lasting work. Teicher traces the poetic development of the works of Sylvia Plath, John Ashbery, Louise Glück, and Francine J. Harris, among others, to illuminate the paths they forged—by dramatic breakthroughs or by slow increments, and always by perseverance. We Begin in Gladness is indispensable for readers curious about the artistic life and for writers wondering how they might light out—or even scale the peak of the mountain.

We Begin in Gladness

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Composing Texts Across Media and Genres

Written for teachers of writing by a teacher of writing, Crafting Digital Writing is both an introduction for teachers new to digital writing and a menu of ideas for those who are tech-savvy.Troy Hicksexplores the questions of how to teach digital writing by examining author's craft, demonstrating how intentional thinking about author's craft in digital texts engages students in writing that is grounded in their digital lives.

Troydraws on his experience as a teacher, professor, and National Writing Project site director to show how the heart of digital composition is strong writing, whether it results in a presentation, a paper, or a video. Throughout the book, Troy offers:




 * in-depth guidance for helping students to compose web texts (such as blogs and wikis), presentations, audio, video, and social media
 * mentor texts that give you a snapshot into what professionals and students are doing right now to craft digital writing
 * suggestions for using each type of digital text to address the narrative, informational, and argument text types identified in the Common Core State Standards
 * a wealth of student-composed web texts for each digital media covered, along with links to them on the web
 * technology tips and connections, as well as numerous tools for creating a digital writing assignment.

To preview a sample of Crafting Digital Writingclick here [http://heinemann.sites.hubspot.com/crafting-digital-writing-sample-chapter].

Crafting Digital Writing

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Karen Benke

Adventures in Creative Writing

Kids are wild, wacky, and wise-and those are precisely the traits that creative writers and thinkers need. Yet as kids move through the school system with its tests and grades, they too often lose their innate ability to simply have fun playing with words. Rip the Page! Adventures in Creative Writing invites children (ages eight to twelve) to pick up a pen and find out for themselves all the ways that creative writing can be their friend. This interactive book offers experiments to strengthen the "write-side" of their brains-with wordplay, open-ended experiments, do-it-yourself definitions, double-dares, word lists galore, and enough blank pages to roam-and rip!-on their journey of discovering that playing with words is precisely what creative writers do to warm up to the page. Rip the Page! empowers kids to play with words simply for the sake of playing and it endows budding writers with confidence about finding the words they need to use to express what they mean. Kids discover their own words on their own terms. On the page, no one can argue with you, disagree with you . . . or tell you that you're wrong. The book includes encouragement from acclaimed poets and writers, including Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler), Naomi Shihab Nye, Gary Soto, Annie Barrows, Lucille Clifton, Karen Cushman, Patricia Polacco, and others. To learn more about the author, visit her website at karenbenke.com.

Rip the Page!

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Doug Lemov

Norman Atkins

49 Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College

Teach Like A Champion

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Albert Somers

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Describes the different resources that can be used to teach high school students about poetry.

Teaching Poetry in High School

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Jeni Lannen

Browse by categories

Susan Thurman; Larry Shea

The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need

Jim Burke; Joy Krajicek

Letters to a New Teacher

Andrea A. Lunsford

EasyWriter, a High School Reference

Aimee Buckner

Notebook Know-How

Bonnie Neubauer

Write-Brain Workbook

Geof Hewitt

Hewitt's Guide to Slam Poetry and Poetry Slam

George Hillocks Jr

Teaching Argument Writing, Grades 6-12

Jay Heinrichs

Thank You for Arguing

Tamra B. Orr

F. W. Prep: Extraordinary Debates

Justin Marshall

Sparknotes Ultimate Style

Georgia Heard

Awakening the Heart

Gretchen Bernabei; Jayne Hover; Cynthia Candler

Crunchtime

Troy Hicks

The Digital Writing Workshop

Meenoo Rami; Jim Burke

Thrive

Donalyn Miller; Jeff Anderson

The Book Whisperer

Audra Jensen; Michelle Garcia Winner

I Get It!

Vicky M. Giouroukakis; Maureen Connolly

Getting to the Core of English Language Arts, Grades 6-12

Edgar C. Alward; Jean A. Alward

Punctuation Plain and Simple

Scott Herndon; Jen Weiss

Brave New Voices

Craig Morgan Teicher

We Begin in Gladness

Troy Hicks

Crafting Digital Writing

Karen Benke

Rip the Page!

Doug Lemov; Norman Atkins

Teach Like A Champion

Albert Somers

Teaching Poetry in High School

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