Laura Robb

Offers ideas for fourth- to eighth-grade English classes

Practical Strategies That Boost Word Knowledge and Reading Comprehension

Easy Mini-Lessons for Building Vocabulary

Looking for a way to make conferring with children more manageable and effective? Veteran teacher Laura Robb delivers a menu of reading and writing conferences that won't eat up precious class time, including spotlighting conferences, making-the-rounds, and debriefing talks. Filled with teacher-student conference dialogues, how-tos for finding conference topics within student work, management tips, sample schedules, conference assessment reproducibles, and more. Covers one-on-one, partner, small group and whole class conferences. For use with Grades 4-8.

Practical Ideas for Making Conferences Work

Easy-to-manage Reading & Writing Conferences

A collection of poetry about the often maligned but forever charming pig, by such writers as Lewis Carroll, Jane Yolen, J. Patrick Lewis, and James Reeves.

Snuffles and Snouts

Yes—we can have our cake and eat it too! We can improve students’ reading and writing performance without sacrificing authenticity. In Read, Talk, Write, Laura Robb shows us how. First, she makes sure students know the basics of six types of talk. Next, she shares 35 lessons that support rich conversation. Finally, she includes new pieces by Seymour Simon, Kathleen Krull, and others so you have texts to use right away. Read, Talk, Write: it’s a process your students not only can do, but one they will love to do.

35 Lessons That Teach Students to Analyze Fiction and Nonfiction

Read, Talk, Write

David L. Harrison

Guided Practice for Reading Growth provides all you need to support middle grade students reading two or more years below grade level. Twenty-four powerful reading lessons feature original poems and short texts that interest students and encourage them to think deeply. This unique book shows you how to: · Build students’ background knowledge by watching and discussing videos. · Use poems to improve reading and fluency through practice and performance. · Invite students to write about their reading and increase comprehension and recall. · Encourage meaningful talk to enlarge students’ analytical thinking and understanding.

Texts and Lessons to Improve Fluency, Comprehension, and Vocabulary

Guided Practice for Reading Growth, Grades 4-8

"My whole goal with this book was to come at teaching writing from the angle that matters most: students' perspective. They taught me what I needed to know to make this book live up to their passion for writing." -Laura Robb "Laura Robb's book has the feeling of a classified document smuggled out of the teen nation about their writing lives in and outside of school. And this top-secret information, this remarkable intelligence she has gathered comes not a minute too soon. Her findings are fascinating-and important, for she translates these findings into practice for us, showing us how adolescents' need for choice and responsibility can fit within lessons on using mentor texts, style, grammar, revision, editing, and familiar classroom structures." -Jim Burke, Author of What's the Big Idea? Adolescents have robust and rewarding writing lives outside of school that involve journals, emails, text messages, blogs, and an astounding array of genres. Unlike their personal reading lives that teachers frequently tap into, their personal writings typically exist under the curricular radar-that is until now. While grounded in the common schedule constraints and curriculum demands of middle school, Laura Robb' s Teaching Middle School Writers offers teachers lessons and routines that are uncommonly attuned to adolescents' developmental and social needs. As she taps into the energy and enthusiasm of adolescents' personal writing lives, Laura presents: - writing plans that support first drafts - strategies for crafting leads that grab and endings that satisfy - grammar lessons that address writing conventions - editing lessons that have students revise their writing before the teacher reads it - guidelines for grading and responding to student work. Straight-from-the-classroom writing samples and videos give teachers the opportunity to see how Laura uses compelling questions and powerful mentor texts to teach writing, support struggling writers, and weave twenty-first century literacies into the writing curriculum. Throughout, teachers learn ways of connecting to students' lives in order to bring out their best writing, their best self. Book study groups and professional learning communities, click here to save when you order 15 copies of Teaching Middle School Writers. A $427.50 value for $363.38. Save $64.12

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