Writing With Mentors

Author : Allison Marchetti,Rebekah O'Dell
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Education
ISBN : 032507450X

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Writing with Mentors by Allison Marchetti,Rebekah O'Dell Pdf

In Writing with Mentors, high school teachers Allison Marchetti and Rebekah O'Dell prove that the key to cultivating productive, resourceful writers-writers who can see value and purpose for writing beyond school-is using dynamic, hot-off-the-press mentor texts. In this practical guide, they provide savvy strategies for:--finding and storing fresh new mentor texts, from trusted traditional sources to the social mediums of the day --grouping mentor texts in clusters that show a diverse range of topics, styles, and approaches --teaching with lessons that demonstrate the enormous potential of mentor texts at every stage of the writing process.

Author : Rose Cappelli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003843481

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Mentor Texts by Rose Cappelli Pdf

In their first edition of Mentor Texts, authors Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli helped teachers across the country make the most of high-quality children's literature in their writing instruction. Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6, 2nd Edition the authors continue to show teachers how to help students become confident, accomplished writers by using literature as their foundation. The second edition includes brand-new Your Turn Lessons, built around the gradual release of responsibility model, offering suggestions for demonstrations and shared or guided writing. Reflection is emphasized as a necessary component to understanding why mentor authors chose certain strategies, literary devices, sentence structures, and words. Dorfman and Cappelli offer new children's book titles in each chapter and in a carefully curated and annotated Treasure Chest. At the end of each chapter a Think About It'sTalk About It'sWrite About It section invites reflection and conversation with colleagues.The book is organized around the characteristics of good writing'sfocus, content, organization, style, and conventions. The authors write in a friendly and conversational style, employing numerous anecdotes to help teachers visualize the process, and offer strategies that can be immediately implemented in the classroom. This practical resource demonstrates the power of learning to read like writers.

Author : Elizabeth Benedict
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781438443508

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Mentors, Muses & Monsters by Elizabeth Benedict Pdf

Thirty writers look back at the the people, events, and books that launched their literary lives.

Author : Tony Vanderwarker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781628739152

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Writing with the Master by Tony Vanderwarker Pdf

With seven unpublished novels wasting away on his hard drive, Tony Vanderwarker is astonished when John Grisham offers to take him under his wing and teach him the secrets of thriller writing. “The beginning and the end are easy,” Grisham tells him. “It’s the three hundred pages in the middle that’s the hard part.” To ensure his plot doesn’t run out of gas, Grisham puts Tony though his outline process. Tony does one, and then Grisham asks for another … and another … and another. As they work together, Grisham reveals the techniques that have helped him create compelling bestsellers for more than two decades—for instance, “You’ve got to hook your reader in the first forty pages or you’ll lose them.” After a year of constructing outlines, Grisham finally gives Tony the go-ahead to start writing. Writing with the Master immerses the reader in the creative process as Tony struggles to produce a successful thriller. It’s a roller coaster ride, sometimes hilarious, and often full of ups and downs. Grisham’s critiques and margin notes to Tony reveal his nimble imagination and plot development genius. For Grisham fans, Vanderwarker’s memoir pulls back the curtain on his writing secrets, and for aspiring writers, it’s a master class in thriller writing. In the end, Tony resolves to take Grisham’s teachings to heart and eventually decides to write what he thinks he was meant to: a book about the creative process and his incredible two years working with John Grisham.

Author : Leah Henderson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481462976

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One Shadow on the Wall by Leah Henderson Pdf

An orphaned boy in contemporary Senegal must decide between doing what is right and what is easy as he struggles to keep a promise he made to his dying father in this “stirring” (School Library Journal) debut novel laced with magical realism. Eleven-year-old Mor was used to hearing his father’s voice, even if no one else could since his father’s death. It was comforting. It was also a reminder that Mor had made a promise to his father before he passed: keep your sisters safe. Keep the family together. But almost as soon as they are orphaned, that promise seems impossible to keep. With an aunt from the big city ready to separate him and his sisters as soon as she arrives, and a gang of boys from a nearby village wanting everything he has—including his spirit—Mor is tested in ways he never imagined. With only the hot summer months to prove himself, Mor must face a choice. Does he listen to his father and keep his heart true, but risk breaking his promise through failure? Or is it easier to just join the Danka Boys, whom despite their maliciousness are at least loyal to their own? One Shadow on the Wall is about love and loss, family and friendship, and creating your own future—even when it’s hard to do.

Author : Allison Marchetti,Rebekah O'Dell
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Education
ISBN : 0325092494

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Beyond Literary Analysis by Allison Marchetti,Rebekah O'Dell Pdf

"This book will make the case for multiple, diverse kinds of analysis to be taught in the high school English classroom. In addition to showing what written analysis looks like "in the wild," the authors will provide readers with a framework of fundamental analytical skills for instruction. Importantly, Marchetti and O'Dell will advocate for framing analytical writing around students' (of all levels and abilities) passions and expertise. And just as they do in their previous Heinemann book, Writing with Mentors, they will share resources for bringing many different kinds of analytical writing into the classroom"--

Author : Linda Rief
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Education
ISBN : 0325098123

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The Quickwrite Handbook by Linda Rief Pdf

In The Quickwrite Handbook, master teacher Linda Rief shares 100 compelling mentor texts and shows how to use each one as a powerful tool for sparking successful writing. Each mentor text includes “Try this” suggestions for inviting students to get started. You’ll also find “Interludes” woven throughout: examples of quickwrites that students crafted into more fully developed pieces. -- Provided by publisher.

Author : Allison Marchetti,Rebekah O'Dell
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 032512003X

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A Teacher's Guide to Mentor Texts, 6-12 by Allison Marchetti,Rebekah O'Dell Pdf

"This book is a practical guide to using mentor texts in the teaching of writing in middle and high school classrooms"--

Author : Lucy Calkins,Abby Oxenhorn Smith,Rachel Rothman
Publisher : Firsthand Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Children
ISBN : 0325047243

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Small Moments by Lucy Calkins,Abby Oxenhorn Smith,Rachel Rothman Pdf

Author : Annie Liontas,Jeff Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1625341822

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A Manner of Being by Annie Liontas,Jeff Parker Pdf

What do the punk singer Henry Rollins, the Guatemalan writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa, the American authors Tobias Wolff, Tayari Jones, and George Saunders, the Canadian writer Sheila Heti, and the Russian poet Polina Barskova have in common? At some point they all studied the art of writing deeply with someone. The nearly seventy short essays in A Manner of Being, by some of the best contemporary writers from around the world, pay homage to mentors--the writers, teachers, nannies, and sages--who enlighten, push, encourage, and sometimes hurt, fail, and limit their protégés. There are mentors encountered in the schoolhouse and on farms, in NYC and in MFA programs; mentors who show up exactly when needed, offering comfort, a steadying hand, a commiseration, a dose of tough love. This collection is rich with anecdotes from the heartfelt to the salacious, gems of writing advice, and guidance for how to live the writing life in a world that all too often doesn't care whether you write or not. Each contribution is intimate and distinct--yet a common theme is that mentors model a manner of being. Selections include: Arthur Flowers on John O'Killens James Franco on Harmony Korine Mary Gaitskill on an Ann Arbor bookstore owner Noy Holland and Sam Lipsyte on Gordon Lish Tayari Jones on Ron Carlson Henry Rollins on Hubert Selby Jr. Rodrigo Rey Rosa on Paul Bowles George Saunders on Douglas Unger and Tobias Wolff Christine Schutt on Elizabeth Hardwick Tobias Wolff on John L'Heureux . . . and many more

Author : Timothy Ferriss
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781328994967

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Tribe of Mentors by Timothy Ferriss Pdf

Life-changing wisdom from 130 of the world's highest achievers in short, action-packed pieces, featuring inspiring quotes, life lessons, career guidance, personal anecdotes, and other advice

Author : Aimee Elizabeth Buckner
Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781571104137

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Notebook Know-how by Aimee Elizabeth Buckner Pdf

Presents tips for elementary and middle school teachers on how to use writing notebooks to help students develop skills and habits associated with good writing.

Author : Viv Albertine
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571326235

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To Throw Away Unopened by Viv Albertine Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2018 What was I fighting for? Even now I'm not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic. Every memoir is a battle between reality and invention - but in her follow up to Clothes, Music, Boys, Viv Albertine has reinvented the genre with her unflinching honesty. To Throw Away Unopened is a fearless dissection of one woman's obsession with the truth - the truth about family, power, and her identity as a rebel and outsider. It is a gaping wound of a book, both an exercise in blood-letting and psychological archaeology, excavating what lies beneath: the fear, the loneliness, the anger. It is a brutal expose of human dysfunctionality, the impossibility of true intimacy, and the damage wrought upon us by secrets and revelations, siblings and parents. Yet it is also a testament to how we can rebuild ourselves and come to face the world again. It is a portrait of the love stories that constitute a life, often bringing as much pain as joy. With the inimitable blend of humour, vulnerability, and intelligence that makes Viv Albertine one of our finest authors working today, To Throw Away Unopened smashes through layers of propriety and leads us into a new place of savage self-discovery.

Author : Lynne R. Dorfman,Rose Cappelli,Linda Hoyt
Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : 9781625311313

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Mentor Texts by Lynne R. Dorfman,Rose Cappelli,Linda Hoyt Pdf

In their first edition of Mentor Texts, authors Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli helped teachers across the country make the most of high-quality children's literature in their writing instruction. In Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6, 2nd Edition the authors continue to show teachers how to help students become confident, accomplished writers by using literature as their foundation. The second edition includes brand-new "Your Turn Lessons," built around the gradual release of responsibility model, offering suggestions for demonstrations and shared or guided writing. Reflection is emphasized as a necessary component to understanding why mentor authors chose certain strategies, literary devices, sentence structures, and words. Dorfman and Cappelli offer new children's book titles in each chapter and in a carefully curated and annotated Treasure Chest. At the end of each chapter a "Think About It--Talk About It--Write About It" section invites reflection and conversation with colleagues. The book is organized around the characteristics of good writing--focus, content, organization, style, and conventions. The authors write in a friendly and conversational style, employing numerous anecdotes to help teachers visualize the process, and offer strategies that can be immediately implemented in the classroom. This practical resource demonstrates the power of learning to read like writers.

Author : Ruth Culham
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003842231

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Writing Thief by Ruth Culham Pdf

Mediocre writers borrow. Great writers steal. --T.S. EliotWriting thieves read widely, dive deeply into texts, and steal bits and pieces from great texts as models for their own writing. Author Ruth Culham admits to being a writing thief'sand she wants you and your students to become writing thieves, too! In The Writing Thief: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing, Culham demonstrates a major part of good writing instruction is finding the right mentor texts to share with students. Within this book, you'll discover more than 90 excellent mentor texts, along with straight-forward activities that incorporate the traits of writing across informational, narrative, and argument modes. Chapters also include brief essays from beloved writing thieves such as Lester Laminack, David L. Harrison, Lisa Yee, Nicola Davies, Ralph Fletcher, Toni Buzzeo, Lola Schaefer, and Kate Messner, detailing the reading that has influenced their own writing. Culham's renowned easy-going style and friendly tone make this a book you'll turn to again and again as you coach your students to reach their full potential as deep, thoughtful readers and great writers. There's a writing thief in each of us when we learn how to read with a writer's eye!