Books for Teachers

Grades 2-4: 20 Whiteboard-Ready Writing Samples and Mini-Lessons That Show You How to Teach the Elements of Strong Writing

Step-by-step lessons introduce the essentials of strong writing and include 20 downloadable models to engage students in interactive, on-screen learning.

40 Quick Mini-Lessons to Model the Craft of Writing, Teach Early Skills, and Help Young Learners Become Confident, Capable Writers
Simple, powerful mini-lessons that introduce the writing process and craft to children in grades K & 1. Fundamental strategies are provided for interactive and journal writing, as well as word choice, focus and thorough development of details.

This book contains the lessons and models you can use on any interactive whiteboard to help students identify and use the elements of good writing. You’ll find teaching tips, discussion questions, and classroom-tested writing samples on focus, vocabulary, voice, show, don’t tell, organization, development of ideas, fluency and leads.

Using sample literature responses – in both reproducible versions and on transparencies – Schaefer shares step-by-step lessons that help students identify the elements that characterize an effective response.

This book offers teachers twenty transparencies that show models of strong writing with companion mini-lessons on Journal Entries, Meaning, Focus, Organization, Vocabulary, Details, Leads, and Revision.

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This book offers teachers twenty transparencies that show models of strong writing with companion mini-lessons on Organization, Focus, Vocabulary, Details, Leads, Revision, and more.

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These four books offer teachers lessons, strategies, mini-lessons, models, and literature connections that will help teach these important craft elements all year long.

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This practical book contains the lessons and models you need to help students identify and use the elements of good writing. You’ll find teaching tips, discussion questions, and classroom-tested writing samples – already on transparencies – for these key writing topics:

Focus, Vocabulary, Voice, Show, Don’t Tell, Organization, Development of Ideas, Fluency and Leads.

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Everywhere I visit, teachers are asking for more help with designing mini-lessons.I wrote this book to share the questions and pieces that I have used successfully in helping students identify focus, details, voice, fluency, and other craft elements. Scholastic took a big leap by actually providing twenty overhead transparencies inside each book.

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How does a primary classroom teacher begin teaching writing? Three years ago it was my pleasure to help two first grade teachers take those first steps into writing instruction.What we learned together about print rich classrooms, interactive, journal, story, and poetry writing became this book. Everybody needs a starting point and this book can launch primary teachers into a successful year of writing with their students.