Resources: Writing
Here are resources on writing that have made a tremendous impact on my life as a teacher of writing. Just click on the book title and you’ll be directed to the proper website for more information!
Writing Essentials: Raising Expectations and Results While Simplifying Teaching by Regie Routman helps you to understand…
•What does great writing instruction look like and sound like?
•How do successful teachers of writing get great writers who enjoy writing?
•Where do they find the time for instruction, assessment, and test prep?
About the Authors and The Teaching Behind About the Authors by Katie Wood Ray helps you understand how powerful instruction can support amazing learning in the very youngest students—children in kindergarten through second grade.
Writing, 20th Anniversary Edition:Teachers & Children at Work
This book by Donald Graves changed my life and is the classic text itself, a touchstone for all writing and literacy teaching. Writing establishes the crucial, reflexive relationship between reading and writing. Plus it gives you the tools you need to incorporate writing into your daily lesson planning by taking you inside real classrooms to watch as children work with their teachers to build literacy skills. Filled with inspiring, straightforward prose and backed by extensive classroom research, Writing not only launched an education revolution, it also began a twenty-year mentorship between Graves and hundreds of thousands of teachers looking for ways to improve their practice and their students’ education.
A Writer’s Notebook by Ralph Fletcher
Many authors keep a notebook in which they record impressions, memories and ideas. This terrific book tells kids how to create a journal and introduces them to the wonders of writing down their thoughts and ambitions. The book suggests to kids the kinds of things to record and how to fashion them into pieces of writing.
How Writers Work by Ralph Fletcher
This book will show you how writers work, how you can become a writer, and how you can find a process that works for you.
Live Writing by Ralph Fletcher
This book is based on the simple idea that every writer has a tool box. Instead of awls and hammers, a writer’s toolbox contains words, imagination, a love of books, a sense of story, and ideas for how to make the writing live and breathe. Ralph wrote this book to give you some practical strategies to throw into your toolbox. Most of us have read (and written!) the opposite kind of writing-dull, drab language that sounds about as interesting as a city phone book. By live writing Ralph means the kind of writing that has a current running through it-energy, electricity, juice. When we read live writing, the words seem to lift off the page and burrow deep inside us. I hope you’ll try them, because these are ideas that can make you a better writer.
Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out
by Ralph Fletcher
Maybe you’ve heard before that poetry is magic, and it made you roll your eyes, but I believe it’s true. Poetry matters. At the most important moments, when everyone else is silent, poetry rises to speak.
Ralph wrote this book to help you write poems and to give practical ideas for making your poems sound the way you want them to sound. We’re not going to smash poems up into the tiniest pieces. This book is about writing poetry, not analyzing it. This book is to help you have more wonderful moments in the poetry you write. He wants you to feel the power of poetry. It’s his hope that through this book you will discover lots of ways to make your poems shine, sing, soar…
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