In this path, third - grade teacher Ellen O'Malley's
model narrative (and the formulaic first lines it produced from students), when compared with 10th - grade teacher Dave Weber's peer review of first lines, illustrates the pitfalls and possibilities of teacher prompts to student
writing.
Includes a Teacher's Resource Guide (full - color, 120 - page guide for professional learning and explicit instruction), CD - ROM (features activities, ThinkSheets, language supports,
models, and assessments),
Writing Prompt Bank (100 cards, 25 each of narrative, expository, persuasive, and descriptive writing prompts, Writing Resource & Journal (6 copies; 72 - page book includes space for students to build graphic organizers, a mini thesaurus with Tier 1 and Tier 2 words), Reading Rods Kits (1 Vocabulary Individual Student Kit and 1 Sentence - Construction Individual Student Kit), Reading Rods Vocabulary Activity Cards (48 additional activities reinforce strategy instruction), and Sentence Activity Strips (6 blank write - on / wipe - off 3» long s
Writing Prompt Bank (100 cards, 25 each of
narrative, expository, persuasive, and descriptive
writing prompts, Writing Resource & Journal (6 copies; 72 - page book includes space for students to build graphic organizers, a mini thesaurus with Tier 1 and Tier 2 words), Reading Rods Kits (1 Vocabulary Individual Student Kit and 1 Sentence - Construction Individual Student Kit), Reading Rods Vocabulary Activity Cards (48 additional activities reinforce strategy instruction), and Sentence Activity Strips (6 blank write - on / wipe - off 3» long s
writing prompts,
Writing Resource & Journal (6 copies; 72 - page book includes space for students to build graphic organizers, a mini thesaurus with Tier 1 and Tier 2 words), Reading Rods Kits (1 Vocabulary Individual Student Kit and 1 Sentence - Construction Individual Student Kit), Reading Rods Vocabulary Activity Cards (48 additional activities reinforce strategy instruction), and Sentence Activity Strips (6 blank write - on / wipe - off 3» long s
Writing Resource & Journal (6 copies; 72 - page book includes space for students to build graphic organizers, a mini thesaurus with Tier 1 and Tier 2 words), Reading Rods Kits (1 Vocabulary Individual Student Kit and 1 Sentence - Construction Individual Student Kit), Reading Rods Vocabulary Activity Cards (48 additional activities reinforce strategy instruction), and Sentence Activity Strips (6 blank
write - on / wipe - off 3» long strips).
ELLs who are beyond the beginner stage can
write in more challenging genres, such as informational reports, short skits, and fictional
narratives, when their teachers plan and structure the
writing tasks carefully and provide good
models.
A breath of fresh air in the competitive «mine is best» atmosphere currently so divisive in the field of trauma therapy, each varied and complex case (presented in a variety of
writing styles: case reports, session - by - session
narratives, single session transcripts) is approached with a combination of methods ranging from traditional psychodynamic and cognitive approaches and applications of attachment theory to innovative trauma methods including EMDR and Levine's SIBAM
model.