MS Professional Resources - New Jan 2019: English

Offers advice on writing for teachers who teach writing, asserting that only by being writers themselves can teachers become effective mentors for their students. Includes mini-lessons, writing prompts, and bursts of inspiration designed to stimulate writing every day

his book explores the latest research that shows that compelling comprehensive input (CCI) is the baseline for all language and literacy development"--Amazon

[Geared to teachers, this book] shares the whys and the how of giving students time and autonomy for the playful, low-stakes writing that [the author maintains] leads to surprising, high-level growth. [Presents] five ideas for authentic, choice-driven writing ... [and] numerous suggestions for helping students build and flex their writing muscles, increase their stamina, and develop passion for expressing themselves with the written word

Explains how teachers can use the approach that proper grammar is powerful to help their students understand English grammar rules and uses.

Offers teachers three hundred strategies, supporting thirteen crucial goals, for meeting the individual instructional needs of every reader

A teacher's guide to teaching English to foreign speakers.

Takes on the common concerns, struggles, and roadblocks that we all face in writing instruction and helps us engage in the process of problem solving each one. From dealing with writing workshop skeptics to working with students both gifted and challenged, and of course combating that eternal barrier-lack of time-Colleen offers tried-and-true strategies to address and overcome obstacles

[Shows readers] how to shake up the 'traditional' writing workshop using poetry and [how to] make writing fun again! Part how-to and part inspiration, this books teaches . . . how to move students from ideas, to drafts, to finished products, to published works

Provides three hundred strategies for improving the writing skills of students and includes suggestions for stocking a writing center planning units, celebrating writing, and keeping records.