Give Your Students a Head Start on College and Career Readiness with Our CCSS-Aligned Writing Program! Rather than simply meeting each standard, make sure that your students achieve the levels of college and career readiness that the Common Core State Standards require. Prestwick House s new College and Career Readiness: Writing series includes everything you need to develop appropriate writing assignments, provide suitable instruction, and offer useful feedback and scoring.
Each lesson contains detailed, step-by-step alignment with the Common Core Standards, while providing instruction and practice in a full array of writing types, including process, on-demand, and journaling. Student models will help your class to gain valuable writing skills, while the complete four-year rubric will help you to guide students toward writing success.
The College and Career Readiness: Writing series will help you: Align your daily, weekly, and monthly unit plans with the Common Core standards; Instruct students and give indispensible practice in the full scope of writing that they will need to complete after high school; Build student confidence and independence as they overcome the need for scaffolding; Articulate student growth and expectations from one year to the next using the four-year rubric. Recommended for Grade 10.
Note from publisher: This is a student classroom edition. Teacher's editions are available from the publisher but are only sold to teachers and schools.

College and Career Readiness: Writing - Level 10

Douglas Grudzina

Bill McMahon

Prestwick House, Inc.

Give Your Students a Head Start on College and Career Readiness with Our CCSS-Aligned Writing Program! Rather than simply meeting each standard, make sure that your students achieve the levels of college and career readiness that the Common Core State Standards require. College and Career Readiness: Writing series includes everything you need to develop appropriate writing assignments, provide suitable instruction, and offer useful feedback and scoring. 
Each lesson contains detailed, step-by-step alignment with the Common Core Standards, while providing instruction and practice in a full array of writing types, including process, on-demand, and journaling. Student models will help your class to gain valuable writing skills, while the complete four-year rubric will help you to guide students toward writing success. 
The College and Career Readiness: Writing series will help you: Align your daily, weekly, and monthly unit plans with the Common Core standards; Instruct students and give indispensible practice in the full scope of writing that they will need to complete after high school; Build student confidence and independence as they overcome the need for scaffolding; Articulate student growth and expectations from one year to the next using the four-year rubric. Recommended for Grade 11.
Note from publisher: This is a student classroom edition. Teacher's editions are available from the publisher but are only sold to teachers and schools.

College and Career Readiness: Writing - Level 11

The adage says that there are two sides to every story, but as most contemporary literature teachers can attest, there are many sides to every story-or at least many ways of looking at a story. Prestwick House's Multiple Perspectives Lesson Guides provide the high school teacher with everything she needs to guide her students through the study of the titles she teaches from a variety of critical viewpoints. Every Multiple Perspectives Lesson Guide provides a general introduction to the work (plot summary, introductions to key characters, brief discussions of social and historical background); clear and concise explanations of three critical theories (including feminism, Marxism, Freudianism, new historicism, and formalism); and reading, writing, and discussion activities designed to help students probe the familiar text in new and deeper ways. Teachers who want to take their teaching of literature beyond the tired plot pyramid and want their students to experience the books they love more than reader-response alone will let them, will find Prestwick House Multiple Perspectives Lessons Guides to be an invigorating addition to their course syllabus.

Teaching Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby from Multiple Critical Perspectives

Learn not only the rules of grammar, but also the logic and reason behind these rules. Grammar for Writing goes beyond the traditional prescriptive methods to make sure your students haven t just learned the rule in a vacuum; they ve developed a deep understanding of why these rules are important and how language works. Most grammar books assume that students will somehow automatically apply whatever grammatical, punctuation, and usage rules they learn to their writing. But when the rule is learned and practiced in isolation, the student never really sees the connection between the exercise in the book and his or her own writing. Grammar for Writing deals only with those conventions your students need to know to strengthen their writing. The explanations and exercises are geared toward the application of the convention in writing, not just applying a rule out of context. This is not an abstract book on the theory of grammar, but a ready-to-use, hands-on handbook full of activities and instruction that will make your students writing error-free in no time. This book is a classroom student edition. Teacher's editions are available from the publisher but are sold only to teachers and schools.

Grammar for Writing: Understanding the Mechanics of Grammar and How Language works

Turn Unfocused Writing into Well-Organized Research Papers! The sequence of a typical research project has not changed, but the way students perform research certainly has. Due to evolving media and access to the Internet, students do not always know the rules for finding reliable sources, using proper citation, taking notes, or writing with precision. Writing an A+ Research Paper helps to clarify these and all other research issues by having students actively help two fictional peers: Ella, whose work provides the models; and Rob, whose work students will analyze, critique, and help develop. Writing an A+ Research Paper also has a strong focus on helping students avoid plagiarism by teaching specific strategies, such as using primary sources and analyzing and evaluating information, rather than merely repeating what sources have said. The book, which is perfect for any grade, also: Introduces a definitive timeline and step-by-step instructions for choosing a topic, writing a thesis, gathering sources, creating an outline, turning in notes, composing a draft, and completing a final paper. Gives numerous examples of source citations in both MLA and APA format. Includes a supplemental CD with additional exercises for every step and contains over 200 pages of supplemental materials. If you're looking for a book that walks your students through the entire process of creating a research paper and gives them many examples of each step, you can't do better than Writing an A+ Research Paper. This is a student classroom edition. Teacher's editions are available from the publisher but are only sold to teachers and schools.

Writing an A+ Research Paper: A Roadmap for Beginning and Experienced Writers

Education & Teaching

Boris Kolba

Schools & Teaching

Nonfiction can be a challenge, but with Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction: Slant, Spin, and Bias students will learn to examine the interplay of fact, opinion, and emotion in an editorial, memoir, or feature article. With this refreshingly unique collection of nonfiction selections, students will cover everything from the Declaration of Independence to Pulitzer Prize-winning editorials and blog entries from New York Times bestselling authors. Each selection is accompanied by exercises that follow the effective model-guided-practice-independent work teaching process, and are enhanced with annotations to help guide students to an independent analysis of what they have read. This is a student classroom edition. Teacher's editions are available from the publisher but are only sold to teachers and schools.

Reading and Analyzing Non-Fiction: Slant, Spin, and Bias

College and Career Readiness: Writing Level 12

Priscilla Beth Baker

Prestwick House

Imagine a vocabulary program so engaging and memorable that your students are clamoring to work ahead! Vocabulary in Context: Wilderness Survival introduces over 125 vocabulary words in the high-interest context of a wilderness survival manual, and uses the classroom-proven lessons of Vocabulary for the College Bound to make sure students remember the words they encounter. This integrated approach will help you meet your nonfiction reading requirements while teaching powerful words through reading passages that even your most reluctant readers will love. If you felt lost in a wilderness of irrelevant word lists and awkward vocabulary passages, it s time to try something new.

Vocbulary in Context: Wilderness Survival

Rachel Natbony

Lisa Tetrault

Leah Rodriguez

Critical Theory for Every Classroom!
Introduction to Literary Theory (PDF Presentation)
Give your students the tools they need to understand literature beyond the simple conventions of plot, characterization, and theme. This easy-to-use presentation explores six critical theories through the lens of Cinderella, helping your students to clearly see how literature can be seen from different perspectives. Designed to stand alone or be used in conjunction with your favorite Multiple Critical Perspectives Guides.
Perspectives included are; Feminist, Marxist, Psychoanalytic/Freudian, Archetypal/Mythological, New Historicism, and Formalism
Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 or higher required.

Introduction to Literary Theory - Power Presentation

Everything You Need to Dramatically Increase Your Students' AP Test Scores!Prestwick House AP Language and Composition
Teach your students to effectively read and analyze unfamiliar texts, while also introducing them to the literature most likely to appear on the exam!
Unlike other AP language and composition guides that students work through on their own in the hopes of gaining necessary skills, Prestwick House AP Language and Composition was created for use as a complete program in your classroom. This comprehensive guide includes many complete and unabridged nonfiction passages with helpful annotations that allow you to easily guide students in determining the types of questions they should be asking themselves.
In-depth models for every chapter, student examples, and practice exercises will help you aid students in discovering features they should notice in their own reading, which will ultimately help them gain a better understanding of unfamiliar texts and a higher score on the AP language exam.
With Prestwick House AP Language and Composition, you will be able to effortlessly:
- Teach in-depth lessons conveniently organized according to the language and textual elements your students are required to examine and analyze on the AP language exam.
- Illustrate the thought processes necessary for a better understanding of the passages and a higher score on the AP language exam, using model multiple choice questions with answers and explanations.
- Provide sample student essays for classes to follow and imitate.
- Gain rich content and instructional material through informative appendices.
- Assist student understanding with an included bonus glossary of literary and rhetorical devices and logical fallacies
Note From the Publisher: This is a student classroom edition. AP is a registered trademark of the College Board, which neither sponsors or endorses this product.

Prestwick House AP Language and Composition

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