Janet Angelillo introduces us to an entirely new way of thinking about writing about reading. She shows us how to teach students to manage all the thinking and questioning that precedes their putting pen to paper. More than that, she offers us smarter ways to have students write about their reading that can last them a lifetime. She demonstrates how students' responses to reading can 
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<li>start in a notebook, in conversation, or in a read aloud</li> <li>lead to thinking guided by literary criticism</li> <li>reflect deeper text analysis and honest writing processes</li> <li>result in a variety of popular genres--book reviews, author profiles, commentaries, editorials, and the literary essay.</li> </ul> She even includes tools for teaching-day-by-day units of study, teaching points, a sample minilesson, and lots of student examples-plus chapters on yearlong planning and assessment. Ensure that your students will be readers and writers long after they leave you. Get them enthused and empowered to use whatever they read-facts, statistics, the latest book--as fuel for writing in school and in their working lives. Read Angelillo.

Writing About Reading: From Book Talk to Literary Essays, Grades 3-8

Education & Teaching

Angelillo, Janet

Ray, Katie Wood

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

There's no avoiding standardized writing tests in grades 3-8. Yet while writing to prompts defies the ambitions of the writing workshop model, teachers overlook this increasingly important kind of writing at not only their own peril, but also that of their students. In the groundbreaking Writing to Prompts, Janet Angelillo demonstrates how to apply the best practices you already know to help students succeed in the uncertain and challenging environment of on-demand writing - without abandoning your writing workshop or devaluing topic choice. Beginning with a framework for thinking about writing to prompts, Angelillo builds a complete unit of study for use in any writing workshop, complete with strategies for addressing the rigors of timed-test situations and practical suggestions for ongoing assessment. Writing to the Prompt also puts into your hands support materials such as charts and checklists as well as student writing from the many diverse classrooms where Angelillo's lessons have been successfully implemented. You'll have both the humane teaching techniques you need to develop students' facility to work with assigned topics across the content areas and up-close examples of the kinds of thinking, talking, and writing that stimulate thoughtful engagement with third-party ideas. Don't give over your writing workshop to test prep, but don't ignore the reality that so much of the writing we do in life requires an authentic response to assigned topics. Read Janet Angelillo's Writing to the Prompt and make space in your curriculum for both choices and prompts.

Writing to the Prompt: When Students Don't Have a Choice

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

No matter your style of teaching, at critical moments throughout the school day it's most effective to teach everyone at once. Whole-Class Teaching offers learning-centered ways to maximize entire-class instruction by creating energizing, engaging teaching that everyone will find useful. Whether you're stepping into your first classroom or you've taught for years, Whole-Class Teaching presents wise, purposeful ideas for using language, modeling skills and techniques, and establishing community when you're teaching everyone at once. Janet Angelillo (author of Writing About Reading and Writing to the Prompt) helps you avoid the pitfalls of traditional direct instruction that inhibit learning and shows you high-quality practices for whole-class teaching opportunities such as: 
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<li>morning meetings </li> <li>minilessons </li> <li>read-alouds </li> <li>share times </li> <li>celebrations </li> <li>extended coaching sessions. </li> </ul> Angelillo's ideas create personal and intellectual connections by validating students' experiences, and they build structure into your day while promoting student responsibility by balancing routines with independence. Best of all Whole-Class Teaching demonstrates how to adjust the teaching of minilessons to optimally support specific goals such as inquiry, coaching, and demonstration. Angelillo even provides detailed tools for self-assessment and for finding out more through teacher study groups. You already have powerful instructional moments with small groups and individual students. Now let Whole-Class Teaching gives you the chance to turn every moment of your day into an opportunity to change a kid's life and learning - andto help you make the most of your teaching time, too.

Whole-Class Teaching: Minilessons and More

I love this book for all it teaches us about persuasive writing and for how it strengthens our understanding of this expansive genre…. Having read it, I am wiser about teaching - and writing - persuasion. You will be, too. - Janet Angelillo Author of Writing About Reading and Writing to the Prompt Wow! Just Wow! Karen Caine's book on persuasive writing is both a day-by-day practical guide and an inspirational lesson generator. This book will change how you see persuasive writing, how you see your students, and, most important of all, how you see the world. Read it. Study it. Use it today! - Barry Lane Author of After THE END Writing to Persuade is your no-nonsense guide to teaching persuasive writing. It's filled with ready-to-use teaching for each stage of the writing process. Karen Caine packs her book with 6 units and 59 minilessons - and great advice on how to use them. Dive into an entire yearlong persuasive-writing curriculum. Pick out a favorite unit. Or dip in for minilessons that slot neatly into your existing units of study. No matter how you use Writing to Persuade, you'll find well-structured, teacher- and student-friendly lessons. From topic selection, to research, to writing, to editing and revising, you'll find effective instruction for every stage of helping students create successful persuasive writing. And with Writing to Persuade you'll introduce students to real-world genres such as letters, editorials, and advertisements. Caine even gives teachers advice and specific lessons on persuasive writing for standardized tests. Better yet, she saves you hours of prep time by including examples of high-quality persuasive writing from students as well as real-life examples culled from national sources that are ready to hand out during your lessons. Get ready for what may be the only resource you'll ever need on persuasive writing. Pick up Writing to Persuade. You'll help your students take a stand and discover the power of persuasion.

Writing to Persuade: Minilessons to Help Students Plan, Draft, and Revise, Grades 3-8

Caine, Karen

Helping young writers use conventions with precision and purpose.

A Fresh Approach To Teaching Punctuation

Teaching Resources

Strategies for guiding students to focus, organize and strengthen their writing independently.

Making Revision Matter (Theory and Practice)

Scholastic. Inc.

Struggling writers need personalized, focused, and assessment-informed instruction and, to this end, Angelillo shows teachers how to provide their students with three levels of support: 1) self-monitoring strategies that enable students to start writing, build writing stamina, manage their time, and stay focused on a topic; 2) classroom community resources which create a safe, supportive environment in which to write; and 3) best practices drawn from writer’s workshop including student choice in writing topics, discovering one’s voice as a writer, and time out to conference, reflect, and assess. For use with Grades 36.

The Struggling Writer: Strategies to Help Kids Focus, Build Stamina, and Develop Writing Confidence

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Scholastic Teaching Resources: Theory and Practice

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