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The Write Thing: Kwame Alexander Engages Students in Writing Workshop (And You Can Too!) A Must-Have Resource for Teaching Writing Workshop in Grades K-12 (Professional Resources)
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About The Write Thing: Kwame Alexander Engages Students
Product Description Imagine having a Newbery Medal-winning author in your classroom as an advisor and a friend, providing personal and practical advice on how to teach writing workshop in the modern-day classroom. With The Write Thing, you can do just that! Kwame Alexander is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Crossover. With more than 10 years of experience conducting writing workshops in schools, Alexander shows how to shake up the ""traditional"" writing workshop and make writing fun again! His magnetic personality, infectious enthusiasm, and love of teaching come through to inspire all students to write. The Write Thing teaches you how to move students step-by-step from ideas, to drafts, to finished works. Not only will you successfully motivate your students to write, you'll take that motivation one step further by providing guidance on how to create student-driven publications of their work. The confidence students will attain when they see their writing authentically published will be off the charts! The book has three parts: Writing, Publishing, and Presenting. The Writing section features Lessons in Action that teach students to produce writing that is worthy of being published. With a focus on poetry, Alexander's writing workshop uniquely meets the needs of reluctant writers. The Publishing section focuses on how to prepare and print digital and physical copies of students' work. The Presenting section provides suggestions to help students confidently present their poetry and other written pieces. Other exciting features include KwameTime! videos that bring Alexander into the classroom. Kwame's QuickTips feature easy-to-implement ideas that have worked for Alexander. With teacher success stories and the most helpful appendix ever written, this essential resource will teach you how to tailor writing workshop to meet the particular needs of your students. From School Library Journal In this engaging, conversational work based on his immensely popular Book-in-a-Day workshops, Newbery Award winner Alexander invites teachers to use poetry to invigorate their writing instruction. Alexander maintains that poetry is extremely accessible and that students who are exposed to this format will become enthusiastic writers. The volume is organized by the key parts of the creative process: writing, publishing, and presenting. Interwoven throughout are tips, questions, sidebars in which Alexander and educators share their experiences teaching poetry, and more. The author's own poetry, as well as that of well-known poets and beginners, illustrates the ideas. Robust appendixes offer valuable mini-lessons and publishing resources. The last appendix provides instructions on accessing the videos and other digital resources referenced in the book. Teachers will be eager to try out the workshops and transform their students into published authors. VERDICT Essential for writing teachers, those who collaborate with them, and anyone wanting to breathe new life into a writing program.-Laura Fields Eason, Parker Bennett Curry Elementary School, Bowling Green, KYα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
