Book Description
The authors has written a book that reflects the latest trends in art education and demonstrates how to motivate children to learn by integrating art with other content areas. Emphasis Art promotes hands-on learning, through technical directions for art-studio experiences as well as helpful suggestions for classroom management, writing, lesson plans, and teaching are to gifted children and students with special needs. This book focuses on the intrinsic worth of art-studio experience and the process of implementing art education into classroom practice with a new emphasis on cultural understanding. In addition to a wealth of creative ideas and clear technical direction, this popular text promotes art appreciation and provides educators with lesson plans that incorporate instructional objectives. For teachers, future teachers, or educators.
Customer Reviews:
Emphasis Art.......2007-09-22
I have read this book, it is very informative. A lot of "hands on" information that you can use in your classroom or for private lessons!
You cannot live, or teach art, without this one!.......2007-01-27
This book was recommended to me and I love it! You will not find a better book for an art teacher!!
Outstanding!!!.......2006-12-23
I love this book and believe it would be helpful for all art teachers. I love the approach and recommend it. Theory, application, and projects are all found in this book. Get it.
Customer Reviews:
Creating Literacy Instruction for All lStudents.......2006-11-10
The author/editor does not follow his own basic rules about an easily read size of type for a READING text. Seems fundamental to me!
The author/editor does not follow basic rules about using different colors/fonts/sizes as a way of denoting major headings, headings, and details.
There's FAR too much information in one chapter for any one student to digest in a week.
It may be quality information, but it's NOT quality page readability.
Restaurants will tell you--presentation matters.
Book Description
In an effective writing workshop, young children grow in leaps and bounds, and within just a few months, the changes in their written products can dazzle you. And after 30 years of studying her students' growth in the writing workshop, Lucy Calkins knows one of the most powerful ways to support good writers: clear, purposeful writing conferences.
In One to One Calkins and her colleagues Amanda Hartman and Zoe White show you the practices and principles that create effective conferences. They dispel the myth that master teachers have a magic touch and show you that effective teachers do not reinvent the conference with each student, but rather use predictable, principled interactions that follow a few simple frameworks. In One to One, you will learn:
- repeatable conferring frameworks that are the foundation of effective conferring
- specific teaching methods that you can match to your students' needs
- strategies for tailoring conferences to English language learners
- ways to use conferring across the content areas
- on-the-run record-keeping systems that are efficient, powerful teaching tools.
Good conferring, like good teaching, relies on your ability to communicate effectively with children, and the skills you develop as you learn to confer will improve your teaching abilities in all areas, including developing curriculum, leading strong minilessons, and untangling the classroom chaos that can derail a smoothly running workshop. Read One to One to improve your conferences and your teaching. But most important, read it to improve your students' writing every day.
Customer Reviews:
I will never be the same-5 stars is not enough.......2005-08-10
As a first year teacher, I have made it my obligation to get my hands on as many resources as possible to learn my "craft." I am amazed at how much this book has changed my concept of teaching writing. I now understand what it is to "describe" a good piece of work rather than "prescribe" a good piece of work.
When I received this book after having attended a workshop, I did not know what to do with it-how to read it, understand it, but after having a year of experience and assessing my weaknesses (how to teach writing), I now understand.
I thank Katie Wood Ray for sharing herself and her findings with us.
If you want to teach writing to children, read this book!.......2005-07-31
I've taught for 21 years, but I always felt like there must be a better way to teach writing to children. This book tells how. Katie Wood Ray gives specific techniques for teaching structure, ways with words, and teaches you to teach your students to read like writers. For all of this, she uses the most marvelous children's books, most picture books but some young adult novels. I have worked on increasing my library under her direction, and I'm having a ball watching my students learn to love to write.
Should be in every reading teacher's professional library.......2003-01-05
Katie Wood Ray has made a very readable, very usable book to help teachers teach students to 'read like writers'. I use the ideas when I am reading and reviewing new children's literature and each time I begin writing instruction with my elementary remedial students. Truly shows how to integrate student writing and good children's literature.
THE BEST EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE OUT THERE!.......2001-01-19
As a writer of children's books and a second grade teacher, I refer to this book often - for support, guidance, affirmation, ideas, writing help, and more. It is perfect!
I hope to have the opportunity to cross paths with the author one day...I'd love to see her speak!
I recommend it all the time to teaching colleagues, friends, writers, and editors.
A wonderful read as well as a wonderful resource!.......2000-11-17
I have enjoyed everyword of this book. I am an aspiring English teacher who is fortunate enough to have Katie Ray's guidance as a professor and mentor. This book is one of the few that I will not sell back. This unique way of teaching writing writing is creative, relaxing, and enjoyable for both the teacher and the student. No matter what grade you teach you need this book! Katie has an amazing gift as a teacher and a writer which she expresses wonderfully in this book.
Book Description
Here's the powerful idea behind The Writing Menu: Tailor a results-based writing program to fit your students' unique learning styles, cultures, interests, and attention spans, and you integrate writing with science, social studies and math into a writing workshop.
A cafeteria-style menu of expository and narrative prompts allows students to pick and choose among a wide variety of writing choices. Grade-appropriate target-skill lists for K - 8th grades ensure accountability with state standards.
Customer Reviews:
A "Must Have" for Teaching the Writing Process.......2000-10-19
Ever bought a teacher resource with high hopes only to file it away on your shelf never to be used? Not this one. Melissa Forney's book "The Writing Menu: Ensuring Success for Every Student" is a "must have" for anyone who is involved in helping children learn how to write. I have used it to the point of it being dog earred. "The Writing Menu" is an excellent resource that takes a practical and straight-forward approach for teaching the writing process. The step-by-step lessons are presented in a logical and sequential way with many workable, classroom-tested suggestions and student pages. Since incorporating Mrs. Forney's ideas into my teaching, my students have shown marked improvement in their writing and are finally showing enthusiasm and confidence as they put their thoughts and ideas on paper. I strongly encourage anyone involved in teaching the writing process to purchase this book.
The Writing Menu Serves Up A Winner!.......2000-06-24
This book should be in the hand of every teacher everywhere. Melissa Forney whets the appetite and then serves up a satisfying feast of ideas, techniques, and instructions for developing young writers. Easy to read, simple to implement, "The Writing Menu: Ensuring Success for Every Student" is more than theory. It is a book you can sink your teeth into and come away satisfied. The Writing Menu provides practical applications with an understanding of the reality that no two children are alike. As children vary, so should teaching style and method to insure each is properly nourished in the fundamentals. Melissa Forney provides a full course, from appetizers to desserts. Bon a' petite
A "MUST" for Helping Kids Write.......2000-06-16
Melissa Forney's love for children and teaching is evident in "The Writing Menu: Ensuring Success for Every Student". This book is a valuable tool for every teacher who wants to show students how to write and to instill in them a love for writing. By following the guidelines and ideas that Mrs. Forney has set forth, teachers will be able to make writing fun for kids. It will no longer be an assignment that they want to put off, but it will be something they will enjoy and will be eager to do. Mrs. Forney's ideas are clever and fun. Using her book in the classroom will be a treat for teachers and students and will make the writing task a very pleasant experience.
You can't teach writing well without this!.......2000-06-14
This book is the ONE book that every teacher needs in order to teach writing to reluctant writers and to 'emerging EA Poe' writers. It is easy to use--that is fundamental. Mrs. Forney has taken all of the work out of planning and organizing how and what to teach. It is is this resource that keeps one focused and on track to lead student's to excellence in writing.
A Perfect Resource for a Busy Teacher.......2000-06-10
The Writing Menu: Ensuring Success for Every Student, by Melissa Forney, is an awesome resource that offers fresh ideas to increase a students love for writing. Many teachers do not receive proper training on how to teach a child to write. With this book, a teacher has a guide for making writing fun and interesting for EVERY child. Best of all, a child's desire to write increases. By using activities and examples from this book in my fourth grade class, I was able to observe a substantial difference in each child's writing abilities. Regardless of a student's writing ability or grade level, this book will help you create an amazing writing program for each young author that you are training.
Customer Reviews:
Great Tool for Teaching Art.......2007-03-10
This book is a great way to get kids to realize that yes they can draw. It really gives great techniques and excercises that teach the basic elements of shape.
Drawing out children.......2007-01-23
This book is amazing! It is perfect for children of all ages, as it talks about the drawing process, not just trail drawings.
It is perfect for the home school, or for kids whos school district does not have art any more.
It addresses the process of learning, and will help kids not only draw better, but do better in other subjects.
Drawing With Children.......2007-01-11
This is an absolutely wonderful book. I was one of those who "could not draw," and after reading the book through and doing all the exercises, I now can draw anything I want. It breaks drawing down into small manageable pieces (the five basic shapes), and once you learn to really "see" things, you are able to break drawing different items down that way. I have "taught" my grandchildren to draw using this book, and they look it.
Good book for teachers and parents!.......2006-10-07
This book is aimed toward parents and/or teachers. It gives good advice and a good drawing technique to learn in order to teach drawing/art to children. Not exactly a book for children, but a book that will help YOU teach children! :o) My boys have certainly enjoyed looking thru the book and the pictures, but the "meat" of this book is directed to the parent/teacher. I have thoroughly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it, especially to parents/teachers who might be like me and not have great art skills or a background in drawing.
Excellent book.......2006-05-17
I highly recommend this book for all ages. The lessons were fun for my [...] and my [...]. These lessons teach the children that they can draw without frustration or failure.
Customer Reviews:
How am I supposed to paint??!.......2007-06-26
How am I supposed to get my kitchen cabinets painted if I cannot put down this book! As a result of reading only the first three chapters, I already have my first weeks of writing planned for when school starts in August! I loved this book!
She needs to practice what she preaches.......2006-02-05
Spandel has done her homework and has used the trait system extensively in her classroom, which gives her much credibility. However, a well-organized reference book puts all the information about one topic in one place. Unfortunately, information about each of the traits is scattered around the book, making it extremely annoying. I'm sure she could have done better, and we all hope a new edition will prove she can even use the trait of organization herself. Let's practice what we preach.
Need help with 6-Traits Writing?-.......2005-07-21
Do you ever wonder how to score writing samples from the students in your classroom? This is the book for you! Actual writing samples are presented and evaluated. Ideas for lessons are also included. This is a must-have resource for those teaching the 6-traits of writing !
Beyond test taking, create life-long writers with voices!.......2004-10-26
Once again,in her fourth and finest revision of Creating Writers, Vicki shows us how to create more effective,independent writers.Using volumes of practice papers, scores of focused, creative trait lessons, and visits into trait-and-process based classrooms, Creating Writers helps all teachers envision how to design our own instruction models to defeat test anxiety!
You'll find her wise, witty comments on papers invaluable, her linking of reading to writing insightful, and her compassion for struggling writers inspirational. You'll welcome her ideas for teaching traits to beginners and how to use comments, conferences and peer response to support writers. She practices what we know; the source of all best writing topics, the "well" from which we can draw our real writing is our own lives.
Sometimes we need reminders that writing -and teaching writing -can be joyful! Creating Writers,4th edition,and Vicki provide that vision, as they have for me for 20 years. Keep this book on your desk!
Creating Young Writers: Essential to ALL Primary Teachers.......2004-02-13
As a consultant in over 15 schools, this book is a permanent fixture in my briefcase. I take it with me when visiting all primary teachers for good reason: it is integral to improving writing for young students. I've read mostly all of Vicki Spandel's work, and this one is yet another gem. It provides a cornucopia of essential information about the six traits of writing - student samples with valuable commentaries, concrete lessons to use immediately, teaching suggestions, assessments, and more. What is also noteworthy is that this book is versatile. It can be used for those not yet familiar with the six traits, those still experimenting with it, and those well-versed who want more tools. Bravo, Vicki, on another vital resource for teachers so they can elicit the best from their students.
Book Description
Humorous Takes on Favorite Tales That Boost Reading Skills, Build Fluency & Keep Your Class Chuckling With Lots of Read-Aloud Fun!
Surefire read-aloud fun!
Students will have oodles of fun building essential reading skills with rib-tickling versions of beloved fairy tales turned into read-aloud plays! Even your most reluctant readers won¹t be able to resist these hilarious twists on their favorite tales‹ Spiderella, Goldilocks and the Three Bullfrogs, The Popsicle Boy, Little Late Riding Hood, The Cheetah and the Sloth, Rafunzel and many more! Plus: Each play comes complete with instant discussion starters, vocabulary boosters, imaginative writing prompts, and a brief history of the fairy tale.
Customer Reviews:
Funny Fairy Tales!.......2007-09-25
humorous fairy tales for elementary age students - a colleague and I were laughing so hard ourselves at the humor in the plays!
Great plays for kids........2006-11-05
I took this book to the beach for the kids to have something to do if the weather turned bad, it did, and the whole family loved it. The kids got to be creative and work together to put on a play for the rest of the family. Even my [...] year old got to play a part (with my help) and because they are familiar kid fairy tales, they already knew how they wanted to act out their character.
Just what I was looking for........2006-07-01
I teach drama to children ages 9-12. It was nice to find something that did not play down to them and was simple to memorize and stage.
A fun way to involve the readers in your classroom!.......2005-08-11
Any type of plays/readers theater are a great way to involve all students in reading. My students enjoy these stories very much. This is a great way to make reading fun for students and can be used in the classroom with reading groups/whole group or at home with different family members reading different parts, a great way to practice reading and spend time together. Readers of all ages will get a kick out of reading these very adorable plays.
Book Description
This updated edition of the best-selling book Because Writing Matters reflects the most recent research and reports on the need for teaching writing, and it includes new sections on writing and English language learners, technology, and the writing process.
Customer Reviews:
A good appraisal of best practices in teaching writing.......2007-02-15
This book is a must for teachers, parents, and administrators who want to understand research-diven methods for teaching writing. Nagin explains the myths and reality involved with creating good writers. This book sponsored by the National Writing Project explores current research on teaching writing and discusses how that translates into sound classroom practices.
Book Description
In this very special book, teachers, parents and care givers will be exposed to hundreds of age-appropriate activities for young children through grade 5?all aimed at promoting creativity through art activities across the curriculum. The author presents a wealth of information about developing creativity in children and in their adult educators with such activities as art and food recipes, finger plays, and poems and through the use of such resources as book and software lists, advice for choosing children?s books, hundreds of resource Web sites and much more. Readers will appreciate the sound theoretical base presented for the hundreds of practical activities designed to encourage creativity in children and their educators. ?This One?s for You? and ?Think About It? sections make the text more interesting by expanding coverage to related, thought-provoking research in early childhood education. This book is a must have for those looking to bring creativity to young children in a very engaging way.
Customer Reviews:
Great Service!.......2007-08-31
I recieved my book promptly and my book was in great condition. I would buy from again.
Just A Little Pricey...But Excellent.......2006-09-28
Mayesky balances theory, standards, and practicality in her book by organizing it like a house. She builds up the discipline from the ground (what is creative arts in early childhood) to the unique, but unnecessary, touches (applying early childhood creative arts for holidays).
It's expensive, but worth the price. Vocational schools that offer early child development training use this text.
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- Evil And the Justice of God
- Findings & Finishings: A Beadwork How-To Book (Beadwork How-To series)
- For Women Only: What You Need to Know about the Inner Lives of Men
- Fundamentals of Power Electronics (Second Edition)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- How Computer Games Help Children Learn
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- The Immune System
- The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
- The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey
- Assessing Expressive Learning: A Practical Guide for Teacher-directed Authentic Assessment in K-12 V
- Streams And Ground Waters
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Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally (6th Edition)
Integrating Music into the Elementary Classroom, Media Edition (with CD and Keyboarding Booklet)
Dynamic Physical Education for Elementary School Children (15th Edition) (Pangrazi Series)
Children and Their Art: Methods for the Elementary School
