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Writing instruction

Last Updated: 4-Mar-2016

This guide is for those interested in writing instruction--both research and practice.

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Background information

Cover image of Handbook of response to intervention
Handbook of response to intervention : the science and practice of assessment and intervention / edited by Shane R. Jimerson, Matthew K. Burns, Amanda M. VanDerHeyden.
1st ed. New York, NY : Springer, c2007.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC4704 .H368 2007
"Until now, practitioners have had access to very few detailed descriptions of response to intervention (RTI) methods and the effective role they can play in special education. The Handbook of Response to Intervention fills this critical information gap. In a single, comprehensive volume, more than 90 expert scholars and practitioners join together to provide a highly usable guide to the essentials of RTI assessment and identification as well as research-based interventions for improving students' reading, writing, oral, and math skills. Each chapter explores crucial issues, defines key concepts, and answers real-world questions regarding implementation..."
Handbook of writing research / edited by Charles A. MacArthur, Steve Graham, and Jill Fitzgerald.
New York : Guilford Press, c2006.
Green Library » Stacks » PE1404 .H358 2006
"bringing together critical reviews of the major theoretical, methodological, and instructional advances that have occurred over the last 15 years in the field of writing research, providing a 21st-century look at writing and writing research."

New books

Reading and writing in preschool : teaching the essentials / Renée M. Casbergue, Dorothy S. Strickland ; series editors' note by Linda B. Gambrell and Lesley Mandel Morrow.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1140.5 .L3 C37 2016
Practice-oriented
Plot building : classroom-ready materials for teaching writing and literary analysis skills in grades 4 to 8 / Arlene F. Marks and Bette J. Walker.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1576 .M3778 2015
Practice-oriented
Literacy in practice : writing in private, public, and working lives / edited by Patrick Thomas and Pamela Takayoshi.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC149 .L49923 2016
After the end : teaching and learning creative revision / Barry Lane.
Second edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1576 .L27 2016
Practice-oriented
The elusive sentence : recovering the rudiments of writing / Rita Eulalie Hatfield and Leta Marie Young.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1576 .H322 2016
Practice-oriented
Children's literacy development : a cross-cultural perspective on learning to read and write / Catherine McBride.
Second edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC149 .M36 2016
Smuggling writing : strategies that get students to write every day, in every content area grades 3-12 / Karen D. Wood, D. Bruce Taylor, Katie Stover.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1576 .W658 2016
Practice-oriented
Descriptosaurus : action & adventure / Alison Wilcox.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1576 .W48757 2016
Research literacies and writing pedagogies for masters and doctoral writers / edited by Cecile Badenhorst, Cally Guerin.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2369 .R467 2016
Challenges in writing your dissertation : coping with the emotional, interpersonal, and spiritual struggles / Noelle Sterne.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2369 .S695 2015
Practice-oriented
Teaching informational text in K-3 classrooms : best practices to help children read, write, and learn from nonfiction / Mariam Jean Dreher, Sharon Benge Kletzien.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1528 .K57 2015
Practice-oriented
In the archives of composition : writing and rhetoric in high schools and normal schools / edited by Lori Ostergaard and Henrietta Rix Wood.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1631 .I55 2015
Newsworthy : cultivating critical thinkers, readers, and writers in language arts classrooms / Ed Madison ; Foreword by Renee Hobbs.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1631 .M353 2015
Practice-oriented
Writing with mentors : how to reach every writer in the room using current, engaging mentor texts / Allison Marchetti and Rebekah O'Dell ; foreword by Penny Kittle.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1631 .M38548 2015
Practice-oriented
Writers are readers : flipping reading instruction into writing opportunities / Lester L. Laminack, Reba M. Wadsworth.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1576 .L254 2015
Practice-oriented
The power of extreme writing : how do I help my students become eager and fluent writers? / Diana Cruchley.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1576 .C8418 2015
Practice-oriented
The construction zone : building scaffolds for readers and writers / Terry Thompson ; foreword by Donalyn Miller.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1573 .T496 2015
Practice-oriented
Worth writing about : exploring memoir with adolescents / Jake Wizner.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1631 .W569 2015
Practice-oriented
Assessing students' digital writing : protocols for looking closely / edited by Troy Hicks ; foreword by Richard Beach ; prologue by Christina Cantril, National Writing Project.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1576.7 .A77 2015
Practice-oriented
Learning from classmates : using students' writing as mentor texts / Lisa Eickholdt, foreword by Stephanie Harvey.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1576 .E349 2015
Practice-oriented
Writing strategies that work : do this, not that / Lori G. Wilfong.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1576 .W4876575 2015
The unstoppable writing teacher : real strategies for the real classroom / M. Colleen Cruz, foreword by Lucy Calkins.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1576 .C8454 2015
Practice-oriented
Developing strategic writers through genre instruction : resources for grades 3-5 / Zoi A. Philippakos, Charles A. MacArthur, David L. Coker Jr. ; foreword by Steve Graham.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1576 .D457 2015
Practice-oriented
Women supervising and writing doctoral theses : walking on the grass / edited by Lia Bryant and Katrina Jaworski.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2386 .W66 2015
Web writing : why and how for liberal arts teaching and learning / Jack Dougherty and Tennyson O'Donnell, editors.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2015.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » PN171 .O55 W43 2015
Practice-oriented.
Making the Common Core writing standards accessible through universal design for learning / Sally A. Spencer with contributions by Nancy Aguinaga.
Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin, c2015.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » PE1404 .S735 2015
Practice-oriented.
Writing successful reports and dissertations / Lucinda Becker.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2369 .B43 2015
Practice-oriented.
Reading and writing in science : tools to develop disciplinary literacy / Maria C. Grant, Douglas Fisher, Diane Lapp.
Second edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » Q181 .G536 2015
Practice-oriented.
Time to write : the influence of time and culture on learning to write / John Sylvester Lofty.
Second edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1576 .L59 2015
The one-on-one reading and writing conference : working with students on complex texts / Jennifer Berne, Sophie C. Degener ; foreword by Douglas Fisher.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1575.8 .B475 2015
Practice-oriented.

Journals

Journal of second language writing.
Norwood, N.J. : Ablex Pub. Corp., c1992-
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » PE1128 .J68 V.18 2009
Reading & writing quarterly : overcoming learning disabilities.
Washington, DC : Hemisphere Pub. Corp.,
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reading Room

Databases

Education databases

ERIC [electronic resource] : the educational resources information center.
[Washington, DC : National Library of Education?, 199?-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
Bibliographic database of educational resources including articles, reports, and curriculum.
Education full text [electronic resource].
[Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson Co.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
Indexes and abstracts articles of English-language periodicals and books on education from 1983 on. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996 and is available for over half the 600 journals indexed.
Education week American education news site of record [electronic resource].
Bethesda, MD : Editorial Projects in Education, Inc.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
Teachers College record book reviews [electronic resource].
Birmingham, AL : Teachers College Record
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
"Teachers College Record Book Reviews provides comprehensive reviews of the leading books in education and educational research by major scholars in these fields. "

Related databases

Linguistics and language behavior abstracts : LLBA.
La Jolla, Calif. : Sociological Abstracts, Inc., 1985- 2004.
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » P1 .L26 V.27 PT.2 1993

Curriculum resources

Units of study for teaching writing : grades 3-5 / [Lucy Calkins ... [et al.].
Portsmouth, NH : FirstHand, c2006.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » LB1576 .C35 2006 CD-ROM
[Units of study for primary writing]
Portsmouth, NH : FirstHand, [c2003].
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » LB1576 .C35 2003 CD-ROM

Websites

National Council of Teachers of English
"The National Council of Teachers of English is devoted to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education."