Whether you're new to the classroom or merely new to the reading-writing workshop, Getting Started is the concise primer you're looking for that will help you implement these powerful teaching frameworks. Workshop teaching is simple, research based, and rewarding for you and your students. It can be launched by any teacher in any type of classroom, and Getting Started shows you the doable strategies for planning, organizing, teaching, and reflecting that make the workshop so effective. Linda Ellis and Jamie Marsh provide smart, practical advice about working with readers and writers of varying levels - including struggling students - differentiating your instruction to support everyone's needs, and helping diverse groups of children move toward a single classroom-wide goal of improved literacy. Ellis and Marsh strip the workshop down to its most vital parts and offer you straight-ahead techniques for reading and writing, including: 
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<li>reading aloud</li> <li>implementing independent reading</li> <li>conferring with readers</li> <li>working with struggling readers </li> <li>conducting writing minilessons</li> <li>conferring with writers</li> <li>sharing students' work.</li> </ul> With valuable one-on-one instructional strategies, examples of student work, forms, checklists, and other tools, Getting Started includes everything you need to launch your workshop, to better understand your students' literacy needs, and to give them the support they deserve.

Getting Started: The Reading-Writing Workshop, Grades 4-8

Reference

Ellis, Linda

Marsh, Jamie

Words, Language & Grammar

Heinemann

Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity brings together a set of papers that consider anew issues of travel, communication and landscape in Late Antiquity. This period witnessed an increase in long-distance travel and the construction of large new inter-provincial communications networks. The Christian Church's expansion is but one example of both phenomena. The contributions here present readers with new research on the explosion in travel and large-scale communication, and the effect on this of different geographical possibilities and limitations. The papers deal with a variety of travel experiences (religious pilgrimages; travel for work and educational purposes; journeys of the soul) and writings about travel; they look at various kinds of communication (ecclesiastical communication; communication for commerce; and the communication of religious identity); and they examine both physical and psychological aspects of geography, travel and communication.

Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity: Sacred and Profane

Literature & Fiction

Kidner, Frank L.

Classics

Routledge

"These easy-to-use workbooks make science investigation fun and fascinating. Each page introduces a new concept, and accompanying activities offer the perfect opportunity to explore and reinforce new knowledge."

Learn Science!: Grades 5-6: Intermediate Level

Children's Books

EVANS, MIKE

Education & Reference

DK Pub.

People would converge on a spring night, a Saturday night in 1982 at the Jersey shore. One of them wouldn’t be going home. 
It was a cold-blooded murder spurred by the heat of lust and greed. Mistakes were made. Nevertheless, it could quite easily have been a perfect crime. It is only because one of the players was rendered stone stupid by an insatiable appetite for sex – a special kind of nothing-to-do-with-love sex - that this case ever reached a courtroom. 
Eighteen years later, the family of the victim is able to shed the black of mourning and don the blood red of retaliation. Enraged by what they saw as inadequate punishment meted out by a court, the grieving family has a new opportunity for dark justice. More than one family seeks closure. Another victim has been mourned all these years. It’s a race for revenge. Who will win?

Death at a Dumpster : The Stabbing, the Sex & the Sequel

Contemporary

1st Book Library

The Cucuteni-Tripolye Culture: A Study in Technology and the Origins of Complex Society (BAR International)

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd

Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity brings together a set of papers that consider anew issues of travel, communication and landscape in Late Antiquity. This period witnessed an increase in long-distance travel and the construction of large new inter-provincial communications networks. The Christian Church's expansion is but one example of both phenomena. The contributions here present readers with new research on the explosion in travel and large-scale communication, and the effect on this of different geographical possibilities and limitations. The papers deal with a variety of travel experiences (religious pilgrimages; travel for work and educational purposes; journeys of the soul) and writings about travel; they look at various kinds of communication (ecclesiastical communication; communication for commerce; and the communication of religious identity); and they examine both physical and psychological aspects of geography, travel and communication.

Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity

History

Ancient Civilizations

Includes the original poem “The Dash.” I read of a man who stood to speak At the funeral of a friend He referred to the dates on her tombstone From the beginning to the end He noted that first came the date of her birth And spoke the following date with tears, But he said what mattered most of all Was the dash between those years. In 1996, an announcer read Linda's Ellis's poem “The Dash” aloud on a syndicated radio program--and, to her surprise, it became an instant, meteoric success. Calls came in from people around the country eager to tell Linda how her words had touched their hearts. That was the beginning of an enduring phenomenon. Live Your Dash captures and expands upon the theme of the original poem: It's not your birth or death that matters most, but how you spend each passing year. Linda shares her message of joy, hope, and positive energy through uplifting stories, essays, and poetry, along with tales of people who have been "touched by the dash," including Bob Dole, legendary football coach Lou Holtz, and American Idol winner David Cook. An inspiring look at life based on the fantastically successful poem.

Live Your Dash: Make Every Moment Matter

Self-Help

Motivational

Sterling Ethos

Includes the original poem “The Dash.” I read of a man who stood to speak At the funeral of a friend He referred to the dates on her tombstone From the beginning to the end He noted that first came the date of her birth And spoke the following date with tears, But he said what mattered most of all Was the dash between those years. In 1996, an announcer read Linda Ellis's poem “The Dash” aloud on a syndicated radio program—and, to her surprise, it became an instant, meteoric success. Calls came in from people around the country eager to tell Linda how her words had touched their hearts. That was the beginning of an enduring phenomenon. Live Your Dash captures and expands upon the theme of the original poem: It's not your birth or death that matters most, but how you spend each passing year. Linda shares her message of joy, hope, and positive energy through uplifting stories, essays, and poetry, along with tales of people who have been "touched by the dash," including Bob Dole, legendary football coach Lou Holtz, and American Idol winner David Cook. An inspiring look at life based on the fantastically successful poem.

Personal Transformation

Authors Linda Ellis and Mac Anderson show that it's not the date you were born or the date you die that matter. What matters is the dash between those years and how you use it to make a difference. The Dash is based upon the world famous poem of the same name by Linda Ellis and includes a collection of stories about people whose lives were impacted by this special message. For more than 20 years, The Dash book makes a meaningful gift for anyone in need of encouragement, whether they're students just starting out or family members celebrating life achievements.

The Dash: Making a Difference with your Life

Parenting & Relationships

Simple Truths

Simple Truths of Life

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