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Paperback. Condition: Good. This collection of mini-lessons is the perfect introduction to writing for our youngest learners. Writer and teacher Lola M. Schaefer shares her classroom-tested ideas for teaching children how to find and focus ideas, use drawing to brainstorm and organize, choose powerful verbs, and so much more. She also addresses spacing letters and words, spelling, punctuation, and other basic skills--all within the context of students' own writing. Complete with models, think-alouds, and literature links, this rich resource will support writing workshop all year long.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Where's your wave of creativity? If you want to learn how to write, Writing the Wave: Inspired Rides for Aspiring Writers is the very first writing book designed especially for beginning writers who yearn to write more expressively. Written with warmth and wit by internationally acclaimed writer and teacher Elizabeth Ayres, this 15th anniversary edition of a classic writing how-to book makes the creative process safe, easy and fun while honoring its spiritual depth and mystery. Elizabeth shows you how it's done. With step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow writing exercises, you'll be writing non-stop from the very first page, even if you've never written before. It's just like having a personal writing coach. You can learn how to be a writer. Throw away those endless lists of writing prompts. Learn how to discover your own ideas with these break-through writing exercises that transform fundamental writing principles into concrete writing techniques you can use over and over, forever, whether you want to learn how to write fiction, nonfiction, poetry -- or something that doesn't even have a name yet. Unlike other writing books, Writing the Wave couples inspiring writing exercises with expert and compassionate advice, to minimize the fears and maximize the joys of writing. And more advanced writers looking for a jumpstart will appreciate recovering their free-flowing creative wellspring. There's a vast ocean of inspiration within you. The surf's up The water's warm Are you ready to take the plunge? Phillip Lopate, editor of The Art of Writing and Writing New York says, Elizabeth Ayres has thought long and hard about the writing process, and is one of the most seasoned and exemplary practitioners in the field of teaching writing. This book about writing is an invaluable distillation of her in-sights and experiences. I cannot imagine any beginning or struggling writer not coming away with some inspiration from it.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 75 years of solid writing instruction, advice and inspiration fill the pages of this book, culled from Writer's Digest articles. A goldmine of information from experts in the field.

Paperback. Condition: Good. The Christian Imagination brings together in a single source the best that has been written about the relationship between literature and the Christian faith. This anthology covers all of the major topics that fall within this subject and includes essays and excerpts from fifty authors, including C.S. Lewis, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Sayers, and Frederick Buechner.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Master teacher Lisa Morris invites you to share her secrets of success with writer's workshops. After years of experimenting with the workshop model, she has developed the most effective ways to apply it in the classroom, yielding higher test scores and increased student engagement. Through practical, step-by-step instruction, Morris demonstrates how to use writer's notebooks, mentor texts, the writing process, and the 6 traits. Specific topics include:setting up the classroom for workshopscreating a writing curriculumcreating guidelines, expectations, and lessons for using notebookshelping students select ideas, brainstorm, and planassigning writing partners and organizing sharinggetting students to self-reflectcreating process and product portfoliosfinding resources for publishingholding effective writing conferencesThe book also offers an array of invaluable tools, such asstudent writing samplesmini-lessons for each stage of the writing processlesson planspacing guides for dividing your time during the workshopsample charts to help you stay organizedsuggested classroom guidelines and handoutsa list of mentor texts, organized by what you can use them to teach (e.g., adjectives, alliteration, onomatopoeia, beginnings, endings, strong verbs, sensory details)quotations on each stage of the writing process to motivate students.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. An idealistic 23-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School, Long Beach, California confronted a room of unteachable, at-risk' students. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust - only to be met by uncomprehending looks. So, she and her students, with The Diary of Anne Frank as their guides, undertook a life-changing odyssey against ignorance and misunderstanding and learned to see the parallels in these books to their own lives.'.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. An idealistic 23-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School, Long Beach, California confronted a room of unteachable, at-risk' students. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust - only to be met by uncomprehending looks. So, she and her students, with The Diary of Anne Frank as their guides, undertook a life-changing odyssey against ignorance and misunderstanding and learned to see the parallels in these books to their own lives.'.…

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