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The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Texts to Jumpstart Your Students' Thinking and Writing
Contributor(s): Rief, Linda (Author)

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ISBN: 0325098123 ISBN-13: 9780325098128
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

OUR PRICE: $36.55

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: June 2018

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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Elementary
- Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - General

Dewey: 372.6

LCCN: 2018005852

Age Level: 10-17

Grade Level: 5-12

Physical Information: 0.6" H x 8" W x 10.7" L (1.20 lbs) 200 pages

Features: Bibliography, Ikids

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Helping students put words on a page can be hard enough. I don't have anything to write about they say. And when writing does happen, how do you help them develop these ideas into more effective pieces?

A powerful tool to jumpstart writing

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.

These mentor texts are curated in four categories:

Seeing Inward How do students view themselves?
Leaning Outward What do students consider when they step outside of themselves?
Beyond Self What do students notice and wonder about the world at large?
Looking Back How does reflection help students grow into more articulate, thoughtful citizens of the world?

Quickwrites go beyond writing prompts

The pages of this book champion Linda's wise words: Quickwrites-writing to find writing-are a powerful teaching tool that help students find ideas, discover their voices, and build their confidence as they discover they have important things to say.

Quickwrites are more than a set of formulaic prompts. They are opportunities for students to use another writer's words to stimulate their thinking and-through writing themselves-to discover a voice they didn't know they had.

Contributor Bio(s): Rief, Linda: - Linda Rief teaches middle school in Durham, New Hampshire and is an instructor in the University of New Hampshire's Summer Literacy Institute. A national and international presenter on issues of adolescent literacy, she is also a recipient of NCTE's Edwin A. Hoey Award for Outstanding Middle School Educator in the English Language Arts. Her newest book is The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Texts to Jumpstart Your Students' Thinking and Writing. She is also the author or coeditor of many Heinemann titles, including Read Write Teach, Inside the Writer's-Reader's Notebook, The Writer's-Reader's Notebook, Adolescent Literacy, Vision and Voice, and Seeking Diversity. In 2000, Linda was the recipient of NCTE's Edwin A. Hoey Award for Outstanding Middle School Educator in the English/Language Arts. Her classroom was featured in the series Making Meaning in Literature, produced by Maryland Public Television for Annenberg/CPB. Read a New York Times article that shows how Linda and Oyster River Middle School are responding to increased high-stakes testing pressures. Follow Linda on Twitter @LindaMRief.

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