Superb study was first to survey totality of influential designer’s accomplishments, focusing on Craftsman houses. Stickley’s design philosophy, influential journal, The Craftsman, major events in the rise and fall of the Craftsman empire, plus illustrations, descriptions, floor plans for many choice examples of Craftsman houses. 86 black-and-white halftones. 31 line illus. Introduction.

Gustav Stickley, the Craftsman

Smith, Mary Ann

Biographies & Memoirs

Dover Publications

This innovative resource provides teachers with a road map for designing a comprehensive writing curriculum that meets Common Core standards. The authors zero in on several “big ideas” that lead to and support effective practices in writing instruction, such as integrating reading, writing, speaking, and listening; teaching writing as a process; extending the range of students’ writing; spiraling and scaffolding a writing curriculum; and collaborating. These “big ideas” are the cornerstones of best researched-based practices as well as the CCSS for writing. The first chapter offers a complete lesson designed around teaching narrative writing and illustrating tried and true practices for teaching writing as a process. The remaining chapters explore a broad range of teaching approaches that help students tackle different kinds of narrative, informational, and argumentative writing and understand complexities like audience and purpose. Each chapter focuses on at least one of the uncommonly good ideas and illustrates how to create curricula around it. Uncommonly Good Ideas includes model lessons and assignments, mentor texts, teaching strategies, student writing, and practical guidance for moving the ideas from the page into the classroom. Book Features: <ul>
<li> Presents no-nonsense information about teaching writing in the era of CCSS, including ways in which the CCSS are misinterpreted.</li> <li> Focuses on “the core of the core,” the bedrock on which effective teaching approaches rest. </li> <li> Incorporates the voices and practices of many talented teachers of writing, including ELA teachers from urban, rural, and suburban schools, as well as ELL teachers.</li> <li> Addresses teachers as respected, dedicated professionals whose experiences and good judgment are the linchpins of any reform.</li>
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Uncommonly Good Ideas―Teaching Writing in the Common Core Era (Language and Literacy Series)

Reference

Murphy, Sandra

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Teachers' College Press

Many writing teachers are searching for a better way to turn student writing into teaching and learning opportunities without being crushed under the weight of student papers. This book introduces a rubric designed by the National Writing Project―the Analytic Writing Continuum (AWC)―that is making its way into classrooms across the country at all grade levels. The authors use sample student writing and multiple classroom scenarios to illustrate how teachers have adapted this flexible tool to meet the needs of their students, including using the AWC to teach revision, give feedback, direct peer-to-peer response groups, and serve as a formative assessment guide. This resource also discusses how to set up a local scoring session and how to use the AWC in professional development.
Book Features:
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<li>Introduces teachers to a powerful assessment system and teaching tool to support student writing achievement.</li>
<li>Offers a diagnostic tool for guiding students toward a common understanding of the qualities of good writing.</li>
<li>Provides ideas for helping students learn from models and give productive feedback to peers.</li>
<li>Illustrates ways to adjust the AWC to various grade levels and different teaching goals.</li>
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Assessing Writing, Teaching Writers: Putting the Analytic Writing Continuum to Work in Your Classroom (Language and Literacy Series)

Education & Teaching

Swain, Sherry Seale

Schools & Teaching

Writing to Make an Impact: Expanding the Vision of Writing in the Secondary Classroom

Through ideas and practices straight from the classrooms of outstanding teachers, this lively resource illustrates writing that makes an impact on a reader, a writer, or a cause--writing that everyone wants to read. The book is rich with student work that shows how writing can make things happen in the world. The authors provide ready-to-use lessons that include a full range of writing, including poetry, narrative, petitions, proposals, emails, self-reflections, long-term projects, and critical analyses. Book Features: <ul> <li>Incorporates the voices and practices of many talented writing teachers.</li> <li>Employs an upbeat style with a clear, easy-to-follow framework.</li> <li>Encourages writing that changes minds, tells stories, calls for action, creates awareness or empathy, touches emotions, or promotes new thinking.</li> <li>Provides accessible teaching ideas, short exercises, and student models.</li> <li>Builds on students' experiences with social media and their interest in social issues.</li> </ul>

Superb study was first to survey totality of influential designer’s accomplishments, focusing on Craftsman houses. Stickley’s design philosophy, influential journal, The Craftsman, major events in the rise and fall of the Craftsman empire, plus illustrations, descriptions, floor plans for many choice examples of Craftsman houses. 86 black-and-white halftones. 31 line illus. Introduction.

Gustav Stickley The Craftsman

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Syracuse University Press

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Teone: Or The Magic Maid (1861)

Rusco

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Teone; Or The Magic Maid

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Nabu Press

Robert Browning

Herford, Charles Harold

Arts & Literature

Cappuccina Goes to Town

Cappuccina, a curious and quirky cow whose favorite color is "Bloooooo!" is determined to see what life is like as a human and so heads into town to do some shopping and looking around.

Children's Books

Milway, Katie Smith

Animals

Kids Can Press

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