This text models for teachers how to help children learn and write by establishing comfort with writing, building confidence, and developing competence. Several themes run through the learning-to-write-process presented in this text:* Writing is communication;* Writing is a powerful tool for learning;* How children feel about their writing and themselves as writers affects how they learn to write;* Teachers are coworkers with students; children from many backgro...

Evaluating Children's Writing: A Handbook of Grading Choices for Classroom Teachers, Second Edition introduces and explains a wide range of specific evaluation strategies used by classroom teachers to arrive at grades and gives explicit instructions for implementing them. Samples of student writing accompany the instructions to illustrate the techniques, and an appendix of additional student writing is provided to allow readers to practice particular evaluation strategies....

Teaching English as a second or foreign language is full of challenges: How do you hold students' interest? How do you ensure that they get enough practice to really learn?The Fifty Ways to Teach series gives you a variety of drills, games, techniques, methods, and ideas to help your students master English. Most of the ideas can be used for both beginning and advanced classes. Many require little to no preparation or special materials. The ideas can be used with any textbook, or w...

Discover a simple step-by-step system for finally becoming fluent in English!Do you struggle with your English fluency?Are you frustrated because your English is not at the level you want it to be?If you're someone who wants to finally be fluent in English, then you're about to discover a simple process for developing your fluency fast!Download this book now and read instantly on your PC, Mac, Smartphone, Tablet or Kindle!"Simple English Fluency Syst...

'Mediocre writers borrow. Great writers steal.'--T.S. EliotWriting thieves read widely, dive deeply into texts, and steal bits and pieces from great texts as models for their own writing. Author Ruth Culham admits to being a writing thief - and she wants you and your students to become writing thieves, too!In The Writing Thief: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing, Culham demonstrates a major part of good writing...

Easy Academic English and Writing for IELTS™ and TOEFL iBT® shows IELTS and TOEFL candidates as well as university students and professionals how to write English well.Let Professor Winn, a CELTA-certified native English instructor, help you reach your career goals in this one volume that combines two books:Book1: Easy Academic EnglishBook 2: 17 Keys to Better English Writing.Serious IELTS and TOEFL candidates who va...

This book provides practical advice for teachers who work with large, mixed-ability classes. It offers a wide variety of activities to develop student motivation, interest, participation and responsibility.

What it really means to "read closely."What could Fern Arable, Jay Gatsby, and Winston Churchill possibly have in common? They all need masterful teachers to help students revel in their complexity. And Nancy Frey and Doug Fisher are just the two mentors to help you make that happen.Call it close reading, call it deep reading, call it analytic reading—call it what you like. The point is, it’s a level of understanding that students ...

For adults, learning a new language can be painfully slow and often a frustrating experience. While everyone would like to quickly acquire the ability to converse in a foreign language, the reality is that it is not easy - there is a whole new set of rules to learn, let alone thousands of new words and expressions. It can be very burdensome to have to, in effect, go back to grade 1 and start all over again.Teachers also have to be aware that adults do not learn the same way that chi...

Teachers are intuitively aware of the connection between academic vocabulary and reading comprehension. Unfortunately, despite what we know about active instruction of vocabulary that will be retained by our students, teachers often assign vocabulary but rarely teach it well. The results are akin to a salesman who says about his product, 'I sold it, but they didn't buy it.' Greenwood provides teachers with the hows and whys of effective vocabulary instruction, through the use of visual org...

"As a writing teacher for twenty-some years, I wish I′d had access to this material."-Marilee Sprenger, Educational ConsultantSeattle Pacific University"Helps teachers see how to approach writing in ways that make it fresh, relevant, and accessible."-Carol Ann Tomlinson, Professor of Educational LeadershipUniversity of Virginia"True to one of the basic tenets of writing, the book shows rather than tells . . . . This makes fo...

Lee Gabor, M.Ed., is a national award winning educator. In August of 2002, she became a teacher at Silberstein Elementary School, Dallas ISD, Dallas, Texas. She had owned and operated her own business for 25 years before being drafted to teach. During the first week in the classroom of her Title 1 school, she was lecturing to students in the way she had learned to do. A 6th grader called her Ms. Ga-boring. She immediately knew lecturing would not work with her mostly second language studen...