Breathe new passion into teaching writing. Teach it as an aesthetic experience. Have your students of writing start with art. Mary Ehrenworth particularly appreciates the meaning and inspiration the visual arts can afford the writing process. An art historian turned literacy consultant, she conducts workshops that use visual prompts as tools to help students locate significant things to write about and craft beautiful writing in response. She also helps teachers discover new possibilities for themselves as curriculum developers and storytellers. Each of Ehrenworth's chapters describes one way to employ visual art in the writing workshop with reasons to do it, guides for trying it, images, and worksheets. Included throughout the book are breathtaking examples of student writing using artworks as starting points for: 
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<li>imagining different perspectives and making them real through story</li> <li>practicing empathetic imagination to create narratives and poems of desire and loss</li> <li>giving imagination play through contemporary mythmaking</li> <li>restructuring identities by communing with a particular work.</li> </ul> Ehrenworth has also collected for use with this book full-color reproductions of artwork, links to museums, handouts, and other resources, all available online at www.heinemann.com/ehrenworth. Look closely. In the looking, find things to write about. And in the writing, experience what Dewey called that "delightful perception." There's no better way to get there than with Looking to Write.

Looking to Write: Students Writing Through the Visual Arts

Business & Money

Ehrenworth, Mary

Education & Reference

Heinemann

Grammar is the gatekeeper to a culture of power, yet it is also the power behind the startling beauty and robustness of the English language. In The Power of Grammar, Mary Ehrenworth and Vicki Vinton show you how these two notions of power can help your grammar instruction address the practical and aesthetic needs of your student writers. Ehrenworth and Vinton explore the impact of conventions on writing, and they offer you new and compelling ways to show adolescents how informed and purposeful grammatical choices can transform their writing from competent to original and innovative. Through contextualized lessons embedded within your writing curriculum, you'll guide students to an understanding of conventional written English, then show them how to manipulate conventions to produce artful writing. Grounded in the latest research and tested in the field, The Power of Grammar also contains resources that support good teaching, including: <ul>
<li>a concise, to the point, reproducible primer that highlights and defines the most important and useful grammatical conventions in English</li> <li>a wealth of mentor texts that allow students to examine conventional and unconventional constructions from the work of published authors and practice composing their own sentences based on the example</li> <li>detailed samples of four kinds of grammar minilessons, each of which can be used in their entirety or as a template to teach any grammatical point</li> <li>tips for designing and aligning minilessons to those stages of the writing process where they best reinforce grammatical concepts</li> <li>examples of student work that show you how successful Ehrenworth and Vinton's method can be.</li> </ul>
Ehrenworth and Vinton also share their passionate belief in the potential of adolescents. By including stories of individual students who discovered and fashioned unique voices and styles by apprenticing themselves to mentor writers, The Power of Grammar will renew your faith not only in your students and the English language, but in the power of good teaching to change lives.

The Power of Grammar: Unconventional Approaches to the Conventions of Language

Reference

Vinton, Vicki

Words, Language & Grammar

Chantal and Elisa show us the teaching and learning of conventions as part of a personal and collective striving toward proficiency, power, and independence. They help us conceive the daily work of learning language as part of more mythic work, which is that of becoming greater than we were. - Mary Ehrenworth Author of The Power of Grammar Are Chantal Francois and Elisa Zonana's students like yours? Economically, linguistically, and culturally diverse; excited to write; yet underprepared for the kinds of writing demanded in middle school and beyond? Don't be daunted. Francois and Zonana found a solution, and in Catching Up on Conventions they share lessons that help kids quickly master Standard English grammar. Catching Up on Conventions will make a difference in your writing workshop and in your middle schoolers' lives. With Catching Up on Conventions and its annotated lesson plans, you'll: <ul>
<li>make key grammatical rules explicit and scaffold learning through highly structured, tightly focused lessons</li> <li>strengthen students' narrative and expository writing</li> <li>give students specific tools for editing and revising</li> <li>support code-switching between the language students use outside the classroom and Standard English.</li> </ul> Francois and Zonana designed Catching Up on Conventions to be easy for you to implement and highly effective. It raises students' awareness of Standard English grammar with: <ul>
<li>targeted lessons that slide into even the most packed curriculum.</li> <li>teaching based on widely recognized best practices that are proven to work.</li> <li>suggestions for instructional language and assessment practices that empower linguistic choice rather than “correct” or devalue the language skills students bring to school.</li> </ul> For success in school, Standard English grammar isn't optional - it's an option every student must have. But it's not too late for underprepared students to find the power of choice and take their passion for writing to a whole new level. Not when they're Catching Up on Conventions.

Catching Up on Conventions: Grammar Lessons for Middle School Writers

Francois, Chantal

Zonana, Elisa

Supporting dreams of fabulous escape and transformation, fantasy literature can be especially compelling for adolescents. Mary Ehrenworth offers a unit of study that harnesses the power of this expansive and poignant genre to lure even reluctant readers into reading epic novels with passion and stamina. Adhering to reading workshop principles and the classic session architecture honed by Lucy Calkins in the Units of Study series, this unit of study begins by launching the kids into fantasy book clubs that foster literary conversations. After exploring ways to read with deep comprehension and to synthesize across pages, students learn to develop thematic understandings. During the course of this unit, students likewise explore where their novels fit within the larger literary tradition. Throughout the unit, students read several books-tackling at least one series, and sometimes moving across series. (This unit of study is drawn from Constructing Curriculum in the Units of Study for Teaching Reading series.) A Quick Guide to Teaching Reading Through Fantasy Novels is part of the Workshop Help Desk series. About the Workshop Help Desk series The Workshop Help Desk series is designed for teachers who believe in workshop teaching and who have already rolled up their sleeves enough to have encountered the predictable challenges. If you've struggled to get around quickly enough to help all your students, if you've wondered how to tweak your teaching to make it more effective and lasting, if you've needed to adapt your teaching for English learners, if you've struggled to teach grammar or nonfiction writing or test prep...if you've faced these and other specific, pressing challenges, then this series is for you. Provided in a compact 5" x 7" format, the Workshop Help Desk series offers pocket-sized professional development. For a comprehensive overview of the Units of Study in Opinion/Argument, Information, and Narrative series, including sample minilessons, sample videos, videos, frequently asked questions and more, visit UnitsofStudy.com.

A Quick Guide to Teaching Reading Through Fantasy Novels, 5-8 (Workshop Help Desk)

Literature & Fiction

CALKINS, LUCY

History & Criticism

"As challenging as it must have been to write and finesse the adoption of the Common Core State Standards, that accomplishment is nothing compared to the work of teaching in ways that bring all students to these ambitious expectations. The goal is clear. The pathway is not." -Lucy Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth, and Christopher Lehman The Common Core is written, but the plan for implementing the Common Core is not. Lucy Calkins and her colleagues at the Reading and Writing Project have helped thousands of educators design their own pathways to the Common Core. Now, with Pathways to the Common Core, they are ready to help you find your way. Designed for teachers, school leaders, and professional learning communities looking to navigate the gap between their current literacy practices and the ideals of the Common Core, Pathways to the Common Core will help you: * understand what the standards say, suggest, and what they don't say; * recognize the guiding principles that underpin the reading and writing standards; * identify how the Common Core's infrastructure supports a spiraling K-12 literacy curriculum; and * scrutinize the context in which the CCSS were written and are being unrolled. In addition to offering an analytical study of the standards, this guide will also help you and your colleagues implement the standards in ways that lift the level of teaching and learning throughout your school. Specifically, it will help you: * become a more critical consumer of the "standards-based" mandates that are flooding your desk; * craft instruction that supports students in reading more complex texts, developing higher level comprehension skills, and writing at the ambitious levels of the CCSS; * develop performance assessments and other tools to propel Common Core reforms; and * create systems of continuous improvement that are transparent, collegial, and accountable. Above all, this book will help you interpret the Common Core as a rallying cry that ignites deep, wide and lasting reforms and, most importantly, accelerates student achievement. For more information, visit UnitsofStudy.com.

Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement

Lehman, Christopher

"I'm convinced that Howard Gardner was right when he suggested that all leaders need chances to retreat to the mountains. I hope this book gives you metaphorical mountains. I hope that Leading Well allows you to step back from the hurly burly of school leadership, to see far horizons, to breathe a new kind of air, and to return home with new energy and vision. And more than that, I hope the book helps you give the teachers and children in your care their own metaphorical mountains; because in the end, good leaders create leaders." -Lucy Calkins In Leading Well: Building Schoolwide Excellence in Reading and Writing, Lucy Calkins draws on the transformative work that she and her colleagues at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project have done in partnership with school leaders over the last thirty years. Travel to any corner of this country, inquire about the schools that are winning acclaim for their joyous and rigorous schoolwide literacy work, and you're apt to find yourself hearing about the results of the remarkable community of practice that has taken root around reading and writing workshop instruction. This book, like the work of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project itself, is deeply research-based and principled, while also absolutely practical and real-world tested. Leading Well will provide you with the inspiration and energy you need to rally your teachers to outgrow their own best teaching practices and tackle predictable challenges. Additionally, Leading Well will remind you that you are part of a vibrant community of practice. You'll learn not only from Lucy Calkins and from contributing authors, Mary Ehrenworth and Laurie Pessah, but also from talented, tenacious, and imaginative school leaders who are creating new horizons for the world of education. The book is for school leaders who've invited their teachers to join them in the exhilarating work of adopting a dynamic, rigorous, student-centered language arts curriculum. It is for school leaders who have taken on the challenge of transforming their whole school into a place where everyone's potential, for learning and for growth, is sky high.

Leading Well: Building Schoolwide Excellence in Reading and Writing

Education & Teaching

Pessah, Laurie

Schools & Teaching

This unit is all about learning well in today's digital world and then sharing that knowledge with others--the most fundamental and joyous of intellectual experiences. Students will form study groups to research topics of contemporary, scientific, or historical significance. The first bend immerses readers into essential study habits that will serve them well throughout their research across the unit. Bend II focuses on developing ethical research practices and internet literacy skills as readers tackle the challenges of Internet research. Students will learn to check sources, discern "fake news," and compensate for connotations and confirmation bias. As students gain expertise in their research topics, the third bend calls readers to study the disputes and arguments inside their topics, eventually coming to informed positions that they will present in a final project. Throughout the unit readers will learn to: <ul> <li>Build background knowledge independently through rapid reading of a variety of texts</li> <li>Take powerful research notes and reorganise, annotate, and synthesise these notes in order to deepen their knowledge and come to new thinking</li> <li>Become an effective study partner, comparing notes, questioning interpretations, and growing theories alongside each other</li> <li>Tackle the challenges of ethical Internet research by checking sources, discerning "fake news," and compensating for confirmation bias</li> <li>Consolidate and share their research and ideas in a variety of media formats, including infographics, flash-debates, and TED-style talks</li> <li>The skills and study habits instilled in this unit help aim to increase equity in academic capital, giving more students access to even the most challenging academic classes, and setting the stage for students to be successful in high school and college.</li> </ul>

Essential Research Skills for Teens (The Units of Study for Teaching Reading)

Test Preparation

Todd, Marc

Study & Test-Taking Skills

Are your students ready to become the engaged and informed citizens our democracy needs right now? Your classroom can be a place for them to experience what it means to live in community with others, to balance their own interests with those of the group, to challenge themselves to overcome differences, and to ask the questions that help them understand the crux of an issue. Powerful reading and writing is fundamentally linked to civic education. The Civically Engaged Classroomis packed with practical guidance designed to support teachers in giving students the skills, knowledge, and tools to be active participants in society. Each chapter describes classroom structures, curricular possibilities, and specific lessons for teaching crucial civic virtues, including: <ul style="list-style-type: disc;"> <li>acknowledging identity, bias, and privilege</li> <li>building background knowledge</li> <li>close and critical reading and ethical research skills</li> <li>composing nuanced stances in writing</li> <li>building coalitions and engaging in activism.</li> </ul> The work of engaging young people isn't about giving students a voice: they already have their own voices. The work is about teaching them to use those voices with power. If you are an educator and are interested in joining a community of practice dedicated to preparing the citizens this world needs right now, then the Coalition of Civically Engaged Educators is for you! Visit <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/JaLQCR6MB8hwB59At9Hphd?domain=civically-engaged.org" target="_blank" title="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/JaLQCR6MB8hwB59At9Hphd?domain=civically-engaged.org">https://www.civically-engaged.org</a>to learn more.

The Civically Engaged Classroom: Reading, Writing, and Speaking for Change

Wolfe, Pablo

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Looking to Write: Students Writing Through the Visual Arts

The Power of Grammar: Unconventional Approaches to the Conventions of Language

Catching Up on Conventions: Grammar Lessons for Middle School Writers

A Quick Guide to Teaching Reading Through Fantasy Novels, 5-8 (Workshop Help Desk)

Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement

Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement

Leading Well: Building Schoolwide Excellence in Reading and Writing

Essential Research Skills for Teens (The Units of Study for Teaching Reading)

The Civically Engaged Classroom: Reading, Writing, and Speaking for Change