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Wringer: A Newbery Honor Award Winner (Ks3 Guided Reading Ser.)

by Jerry Spinelli

Newbery Honor Book * ALA Notable Children's Book "Deeply felt. Presents a moral question with great care and sensitivity." —The New York Times"A spellbinding story about rites of passage." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)"A realistic story with the intensity of a fable." —The Horn Book (starred review)"Thought-provoking." —School Library Journal (starred review)In Palmer LaRue's hometown of Waymer, turning ten is the biggest event of a boy's life. But for Palmer, his tenth birthday is not something to look forward to, but something to dread. Then one day, a visitor appears on his windowsill, and Palmer knows that this, more than anything else, is a sign that his time is up. Somehow, he must learn how to stop being afraid and stand up for what he believes in.Wringer is a powerful tour de force from Newbery Medal winner Jerry Spinelli.

Write For College: A Student Handbook

by Patrick Sebranek Verne Meyer Dave Kemper

Write for College emphasizes the kinds of writing that will prepare you for college course work. However, the handbook covers much more than writing. It also provides information and guidelines for speaking, thinking, critical reading, note taking, test taking, researching, and nearly every other topic essential to success.

Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling and Mentor Texts

by Kelly Gallagher

In Write Like This: Teaching Real World Writing Through Modeling and Mentor Texts, author and teacher Kelly Gallagher recognizes that writing well starts with teaching students WHY they should write. He believes we need to move beyond the state standards by introducing young writers to real-world discourses and provide them with authentic texts to influence and develop life-long skills. Each chapter focuses on a specific writing purpose: Express and Reflect: View life experiences in reverse to move forward Inform and Explain: State a point and purpose with information to support it Evaluate and Judge: Focus' on the worth of an object, idea, or person and present' it as 'bad or 'good Inquire and Explore: Propose' a problem or question Analyze and Interpret: Examine phenomena that are difficult to understand or explain Take a Stand/Propose a Solution: Persuade audience to particular position and provide' justification' ' In teaching these lessons, Gallagher provides mentor texts (professional samples as well as models he has written in front of his students), student writing samples, and numerous assignments and strategies proven to elevate student writing. By helping teachers bring effective modeling practices into their classrooms, Write Like This enables students to become better adolescent writers. More important, the practices found in this book will help our students develop the writing skills they will need to become adult writers in the real world. '

Write On Course 20-20: A Student Handbook for Writing, Thinking, and Learning

by Patrick Sebranek Dave Kemper Verne Meyer

The Write on Course 20-20 handbook covers all of your communication needs--from learning about the traits of writing to participating in peer response groups, from writing persuasive essays to creating digital stories. The handbook is loaded with guidelines and samples that are (1) designed for easy use, (2) written in a friendly, supportive voice, and (3) enhanced by wonderful illustrations.

Write, Open, Act: An Intentional Life Planning Workbook

by Lee Weinstein

AS SEEN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES! If life were a project and you knew you had a limited time to get it done, wouldn't it make sense to develop a plan? "Write, Open, Act: An Intentional Life Planning Workbook" delivers a life of promise and purpose. No one wants to be lying on their deathbed wishing they would have done this or that. <P><P> This book helps people achieve their life dreams, even when day-to-day issues get in the way. Author Lee Weinstein is a former Nike public relations leader. One Saturday, he and his wife, Melinda, pulled out a large sheet of butcher paper and invented a process they call "Intentional Life Planning." It began with a conversation about where they wanted to live. This led to their looking at the decades they had ahead and the key upcoming milestones for their family, and imagining what they wanted to do with their lives. <P><P> They ended up creating a highly visual Intentional Life Plan-a timeline filled with dreams and goals-that they've updated every year since. When they shared photos of their annual planning day on Facebook, friends went crazy. Many asked how they, too, could get started. And several asked them to turn their process into a workshop, which they did. Their next move was to publish "Write, Open, Act" to bring the Intentional Life Planning method to a wider audience to explore on their own. <P><P> This practical, hands-on workbook is life-changing. Use the four steps in "Write, Open, Act" to build a visual Intentional Life Plan and chart your plan in less than a day. Written for people of all walks of life, the book gives readers an actionable process that is highly visual, with original illustrations and inspirational messages sprinkled throughout. After completing the workbook, you will have a plan for how to live your best life on this planet!

Write Source: A Book for Writing, Thinking, and Learning

by Dave Kemper Verne Meyer Patrick Sebranek

This powerful classroom toolkit provides a variety of additional resources to help you make the most of the Write Source program: - SkillsBook Practice for essential mechanics, usage, and grammar skills (SkillsBook Teacher's Edition also included. )- Assessment Book Copymasters for a pretest, interim tests, and posttests to help prepare students for stare assessments- Overhead Transparencies Graphic organizers, assessment rubrics, and benchmark papers for whole-class instruction- Interactive Writing Skills CD-ROM Animated grammar lessons, engaging, interactive activities, and printable and e-mailable reports- Daily Language Workouts Quick 5-to-10 minute activities in mechanics, usage, grammar, and writing.

Write Source: A Book for Writing, Thinking, and Learning

by Dave Kemper Patrick Sebranek Verne Meyer Chris Krenzke

This powerful classroom toolkit provides a variety of additional resources to help you make the most of the Write Source program: - SkillsBook Practice for essential mechanics, usage, and grammar skills (SkillsBook Teacher's Edition also included. )- Assessment Book Copymasters for a pretest, interim tests, and posttests to help prepare students for stare assessments- Overhead Transparencies Graphic organizers, assessment rubrics, and benchmark papers for whole-class instruction- Interactive Writing Skills CD-ROM Animated grammar lessons, engaging, interactive activities, and printable and e-mailable reports- Daily Language Workouts Quick 5-to-10 minute activities in mechanics, usage, grammar, and writing.

Write Source: A Book for Writing, Thinking, and Learning

by Dave Kemper Patrick Sebranek Verne Meyer Chris Krenzke

This powerful classroom toolkit provides a variety of additional resources to help you make the most of the Write Source program: Skills Book Practice for essential mechanics, usage, and grammar skills. Assessment Book Copy masters for a pretest, interim tests, and posttests to help prepare students for stare assessments- Overhead Transparencies Graphic organizers, assessment rubrics, and benchmark papers for whole-class instruction- Interactive Writing Skills- Animated grammar lessons, engaging, interactive activities, and printable and emailable reports- Daily Language Workouts Quick 5-to-10 minute activities in mechanics, usage, grammar, and writing.

Write Source: A Book for Writing, Thinking, and Learning

by Patrick Sebranek Verne Meyer Dave Kemper

This classroom toolkit provides a variety of additional resources to help you make the most of the Write Source program-- SkillsBook: Practice for essential mechanics, usage, and grammar skills; Assessment Book: Copymasters for a pretest, interim tests, and posttests to help prepare students for stare assessments; Benchmark papers for whole-class instruction; engaging, interactive activities; Daily Language Workouts, Quick 5-to-10 minute activities in mechanics, usage, grammar, and writing, etc.

Write Source Skills Book: Editing and Proofreading Practice

by Pat Sebranek Dave Kemper

This powerful classroom toolkit provides a variety of additional resources to help you make the most of the Write Source program: - Skills Book Practice for essential mechanics, usage, and grammar skills - Assessment Book Copy masters for a pretest, interim tests, and post tests to help prepare students for stare assessments- Overhead Transparencies Graphic organizers, assessment rubrics, and benchmark papers for whole-class instruction- Interactive Writing Skills CD-ROM Animated grammar lessons, engaging, interactive activities, and printable and e-mailable reports- Daily Language Workouts Quick 5-to-10 minute activities in mechanics, usage, grammar, and writing.

Write Source Write for College: A Student Handbook

by Patrick Sebranek Verne Meyer Dave Kemper

Write for College emphasizes the kinds of writing that will prepare you for college course work. However, the handbook covers much more than writing. It also provides information and guidelines for speaking, thinking, critical reading, note taking, test taking, researching, and nearly every other topic essential to success.

Write the SAT Essay Right!: Ten Secrets To Add 100 Points To Your Score (Maupin House Ser.)

by Laura Wilson

Write the SAT Essay Right! is not your average-ho-hum-SAT-prep book, full of fluff and boring, useless stuff. Instead, Write the SAT Essay Right! gives college-bound students the down-low skinny on the ten best-kept secrets to raise SAT scores. In an easy step-by-step way, students learn proven secrets, then practice their newfound skills. Sample tests to study and evaluate, key strategies, and lots of score-raising tips make this a must-have resource for conquering the SAT essay. The teacher/trade edition of Write the SAT Essay Right! contains write-in- the-book worksheets, making it a perfect choice for students who need effective and convenient practice.ReviewWrite the SAT Essay Right! is required reading for any student gearing up for the SAT. Test-prep whiz Laura Wilson shares great advice and 10 secrets to help a teen build the skills and confidence necessary to crank out an essay that earns major points. She even provides a minute-by-minute timeline explaining how to use the allotted 25 minutes most effectively on the Big Day. Nobody is better at this than Laura. --Family Circle magazineLaura Wilson s ten proven secrets in Write the SAT Essay Right! clearly map out the route to SAT success, one secret at a time. Easy to read and full of solid writing tips, plus sample tests to practice grading, this book cuts through the fluff to give you what you need to know for a higher SAT writing score. --William Holiber, President, U.S. News and World ReportLaura Wilson s ten proven secrets in Write the SAT Essay Right! clearly map out the route to SAT success, one secret at a time. Easy to read and full of solid writing tips, plus sample tests to practice grading, this book cuts through the fluff to give you what you need to know for a higher SAT writing score. --William Holiber, President, U.S. News and World Report About the AuthorLaura Wilson, M.A., is the founder and CEO of the nationally recognized online test-preparation company, WilsonDailyPrep, and of WilsonPrep, a premier tutoring agency in Chappaqua, New York. In addition to more than twenty years of teaching English and tutoring high-school students for the SAT and ACT, she regularly consults closely with other English teachers, supervising and mentoring them in the classroom. She often consults with school districts, using her original curriculum guides to infuse grammar, reading, and writing skills into the study of high-school literary classics. In 2010, she founded Graph It Forward Today, an organization that donates graphing calculators to students and schools in need. In addition to Write the SAT Essay Right, her first Maupin House book, she is the author of The Wilson Daily Prep Verbal Workbook, The Wilson Daily Prep Math Workbook, andEnglish in English. She lives in Chappaqua, New York, with her husband Mike and her sons, Mitchell and Max.

Write to Learn (8th edition)

by Donald M. Murray

Speaking writer-to-writer to beginning and more experienced writers, Murray (University of New Hampshire) guides students through every step of the writing process, emphasizing that writing is a journey of discovery. In this eighth edition, there is new emphasis on learning to harvest ideas and connections before sitting down to write. There are new chapters on reviving a dead draft, and on Internet research. Individual, partner, and group activities are included.

Write to the Point!: Principles of Essay Writing

by William P. Morgan

This book is all about writing and contains advice and time-saving strategies for making one's writing clearer, more interesting, and easier to put together.

The Writers

by Miranda J. Banks

Screenwriters are storytellers and dream builders. They forge new worlds and beings, bringing them to life through storylines and idiosyncratic details. Yet up until now, no one has told the story of these creative and indispensable artists. The Writers is the only comprehensive qualitative analysis of the history of writers and writing in the film, television, and streaming media industries in America. Featuring in-depth interviews with over fifty writers--including Mel Brooks, Norman Lear, Carl Reiner, and Frank Pierson--The Writers delivers a compelling, behind-the-scenes look at the role and rights of writers in Hollywood and New York over the past century. Granted unprecedented access to the archives of the Writers Guild Foundation, Miranda J. Banks also mines over 100 never-before-published oral histories with legends such as Nora Ephron and Ring Lardner Jr., whose insight and humor provide a window onto the enduring priorities, policies, and practices of the Writers Guild.With an ear for the language of storytellers, Banks deftly analyzes watershed moments in the industry: the advent of sound, World War II, the blacklist, ascension of television, the American New Wave, the rise and fall of VHS and DVD, and the boom of streaming media. The Writers spans historical and contemporary moments, and draws upon American cultural history, film and television scholarship and the passionate politics of labor and management. Published on the sixtieth anniversary of the formation of the Writers Guild of America, this book tells the story of the triumphs and struggles of these vociferous and contentious hero-makers.

A Writer's Guide to Fiction

by Elizabeth Lyon

The second book in the Writer's Compass series from professional writing instructor Elizabeth Lyon offers both aspiring and established authors the fundamentals of writing and selling a great novel or short story. In addition to the basics of characterization, plot, pacing, and theme, A Writer's Guide to Fiction also features a plan for revising fiction, a guide to marketing, samples of cover and query letters, and methods of honing the writing craft.

The Writer's Harbrace Handbook

by Cheryl Glenn Loretta Gray

THE WRITER'S HARBRACE HANDBOOK, 4th Edition, is grounded in the belief that an understanding of the rhetorical situation--the writer, reader, message, context, and exigence (reason for writing)--provides the best starting point for effective writing and reading. This comprehensive handbook guides student writers in employing that rhetorical understanding as they choose the most effective information to include, the best arrangement of that information, and the most appropriate language to use. The text moves students through the steps that constitute successful writing--from finding appropriate topics and writing clear thesis statements to arranging ideas and developing initial drafts. THE WRITER'S HARBRACE HANDBOOK also provides several sample student papers and excerpts of papers in various disciplines, along with instruction for successfully completing similar assignments.

Writers Inc: Student Handbook For College-and-Career Readiness

by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Staff

Writers INC Student Handbook is thoughtfully designed with college-and-career readiness in mind, starting with all facets of writing—from constructing sentences and paragraphs to developing academic essays. Explanatory essays and essays of argumentation are included, as are responses to literature and many narrative forms. There are also special sections on writing across the curriculum, social media, updated MLA and APA guidelines, and test taking skills to help students’ master new performance-based assessments.

Writers Inc: A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning

by Patrick Sebranek Dave Kemper Verne Meyer

Your Writers Inc handbook provides concise, easy-to-use guidelines, samples, and strategies to help you with all of your writing. Writers Inc will also help you with your other learning skills, including study-reading, test taking, note taking, and Internet searches.

Writers Inc, A student Handbook for Writing and Learning

by Patrick Sebranek Dave Kemper Verne Meyer Chris Krenzke

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A Writer's Reference

by Diana Hacker Nancy Sommers Tom Jehn Jane Rosenzweig

Having helped nearly 3 million students at 1,600 colleges and universities to write well,A Writer's Referencesucceeds because it has always been grounded in classroom experience. Nearly twenty years ago, Diana Hacker reinvented the college handbook by looking at her own students' needs. She crafted a first-of-its-kind reference that offered practical solutions to college writing problems in a language students could understand and in a format that was easy for them to use. Her many innovations -- hand-edited sentences, grammar checker boxes, student-friendly index entries, ESL coverage, and a lay-flat comb binding -- have been widely imitated but never improved upon. In the Hacker tradition, the new contributing authors -- Nancy Sommers, Tom Jehn, Jane Rosenzweig, and Marcy Carbajal Van Horn -- have crafted solutions for the writing problems of today's college students. Together they give us a new edition that provides more help with academic writing and that works better for a wider range of multilingual students.

Writing 1C: Unit-Lessons in Composition

by Don P. Brown Katherine M. Blickhahn Jeanne M. Fratessa Albert Lavin Vicki Cox Nancy L. Cossitt

This book presents a fundamental approach to learning how to write in high school.

Writing a Research Paper: A Step-By-Step Approach

by Phyllis Goldenberg Linda Anderson Rose Depoto

A publisher-supplied textbook

Writing Alone and With Others

by Pat Schneider Peter Elbow

For more than a quarter of a century, Pat Schneider has helped writers find and liberate their true voices. She has taught all kinds--the award winning, the struggling, and those who have been silenced by poverty and hardship. Her innovative methods have worked in classrooms from elementary to graduate level, in jail cells and public housing projects, in convents and seminaries, in youth at-risk programs, and with groups of the terminally ill. Now, in Writing Alone and with Others, Schneider's acclaimed methods are available in a single, well-organized, and highly readable volume. The first part of the book guides the reader through the perils of the solitary writing life: fear, writer's block, and the bad habits of the internal critic. In the second section, Schneider describes the Amherst Writers and Artists workshop method, widely used across the U. S. and abroad. Chapters on fiction and poetry address matters of technique and point to further resources, while more than a hundred writing exercises offer specific ways to jumpstart the blocked and stretch the rut-stuck. Schneider's innovative teaching method will refresh the experienced writer and encourage the beginner. Her book is the essential owner's manual for the writer's voice.

Writing America: Language And Composition In Context AP* Edition

by David A. Jolliffe Hephzibah Roskelly

We have designed Writing America: Language and Composition in Context AP* Edition so that it can be used as the foundational text in a course that emphasizes reading, writing, and analyzing texts. Writing America teaches reading as a dynamic, interactive process. It teaches writing as a craft, related to reading, that produces rich, purposeful, well-planned and well-executed texts. It teaches the structure and organization of texts, at the level of both the whole text and the sentence. It couches this instruction in an examination of vitally important works of American literature, art, and culture, accompanied by a study of contemporary pieces that unpack current thinking on the issues and themes raised by the historical works.

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