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  • Literacy Assessment and Intervention for Classroom Teachers

    The Sixth Edition of this comprehensive resource helps future and practicing teachers recognize and assess literacy problems, while providing practical, effective intervention strategies to help every student succeed. DeVries thoroughly explores all major components of literacy, offering an overview of pertinent research, suggested methods and tools for diagnosis and assessment, intervention ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Using Mentor Texts to Teach 6 + 1 Writing Traits

    Mini Lessons for K-8 Teachers

    In this book, you’ll find a wealth of mini lessons designed to improve the quality of students’ writing. Each lesson uses a key mentor text and spotlights one of the 6 + 1 Writing Traits to allow students to focus on the essential aspects of good writing – content, organization, word choice, voice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation. Inviting and practical, the lessons are concise and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry

    A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry

    From the nuts and bolts of craft to the sources of inspiration, this book is for anyone who wants to write poetry-and do it well.In this fortuitous collaboration, two spirited poets, themselves teachers of poetry, offer guidance to aspiring beginners and those who have already published. Brief essays on the elements of poetry, technique, and suggested subjects for writing are each followed by ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Building Great Sentences

    How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read

    by Brooks Landon ...
    Based on the bestselling series from The Great Courses, Building Great Sentences celebrates the sheer joy of language—and will forever change the way you read and write.Great writing begins with the sentence. Whether it’s two words (“Jesus wept.”) or William Faulkner’s 1,287-word sentence in Absalom! Absalom!, sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Complete Creative Writing Course

    Your complete companion for writing creative fiction

    by Chris Sykes ...
    LEARN HOW TO WRITE CREATIVELY WITH THIS COMPREHENSIVE AND PRACTICAL COURSE.The only comprehensive Creative Writing title on the market that goes beyond introducing the basic genres to offering a complete journey along the writing path, including material on editing, redrafting and polishing a piece of work. Featuring the unique Workshop exercises to encourage readers to hone their work rather than ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • From Cover to Cover

    Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Book

    "[A] beautifully written how-to manual, which also manages to present a treatise on what is best in children's literature and why. . . . An excellent resource." — BooklistThis revised edition of From Cover to Cover offers a fresh, up-to-date look at some of the best examples of children's literature and also includes practical advice on how to write clearly articulated, reasoned opinions so that ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spunk & Bite

    Today's writer needs more than just a solid knowledge of usage and composition to write successfully. Bestselling author Arthur Plotnik reveals the secrets to attention-grabbing, unforgettable writing, in this trade paperback edition.Updated with all-new writing exercises, Spunk & Bite will help writers take books, articles, business reports, memos, and even e-mail messages to the next level. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Outsiders: Teacher Lesson Plans

    by LessonCaps ...
    Following Common Core Standards, this lesson plan for S.E. Hinton, "The Outsiders" is the perfect solution for teachers trying to get ideas for getting students excited about a book.BookCaps lesson plans cover five days worth of material. It includes a suggested reading schedule, discussion questions, essay topics, homework assignments, and suggested web resources.A separate book is also available ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Family Resemblance

    An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres

    When we talk about hybrid literary genres, what do we mean? Unprecedented in both its scope and approach, ***Family Resemblanc***e is the first anthology to explore the answer to that question in depth, providing craft essays and examples of hybrid forms by 43 distinguished authors. In this study of eight hybrid genres—including lyric essay, epistolary, poetic memoir, prose poetry, performative, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Creative Writing DeMYSTiFied

    by Sheila Bender ...
    Series series Demystified
    Whether for high school, college or pleasure creative writing, you need to know the basic elements of the craft. Creative Writing DeMYSTiFieD gives you helpful suggestions for evaluating your work for freshness and originality and offers scores of exercises, techniques, samples and websites to access more. The book introduces you to general creative writing terms and craft as well as genre ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Writing Thief

    Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing

    by Ruth Culham ...
    '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 ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • A Writer's Guide to Fiction

    Series series Writers Guide Series
    The second book in the Writer's Compass series from professional writing instructor Elizabeth Lyon offers both aspiring and established authors the fundamentals of writing and selling a great novel or short story. In addition to the basics of characterization, plot, pacing, and theme, A Writer's Guide to Fiction also features a plan for revising fiction, a guide to marketing, samples of cover and ... Read more

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