Stenhouse Newslinks
August 30, 2007
C O N T E N T S
1) Take a peek at what's new this fall...
2) Author Conversations: Mark Overmeyer
3) PD Corner: Podcasting
4) Just One More Book
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1) Take a peek at what's new this fall...
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Our fall list includes seven books that will help you develop
writing instruction, plan differentiation, use the schoolyard to
enhance learning, and teach academic vocabulary. Follow the links
below for details and stay tuned to Newslinks for notice of when
these books are posted for online browsing!
Talking, Drawing, Writing: Lessons for Our Youngest Writers
Martha Horn and Mary Ellen Giacobbe * Available Now
276 pp/paper * $24.00 * Browse the entire text online:
http://www.stenhouse.com/0456.asp?r=n120
Explores the important roles of talking and drawing in learning to
write, with 46 mini-lessons that will help you establish oral
storytelling, drawing, and assessment.
Less Is More: Teaching Literature with Short Texts, Grades 6-12
Kimberly Hill Campbell * Foreword by Leila Christenbury
Available in late September * 200 (est.) pp/paper * $18.50
http://www.stenhouse.com/0710.asp?r=n120
"Full of powerful ideas for teaching with short, provocative
text...a valuable resource for language arts teachers" (Cris
Tovani). Examines a variety of short text genres and how to
integrate them into the curriculum alongside novels.
Inside Words: Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary, Grades 6-12
Janet Allen * Available in October
128 pp/paper + CD-ROM * $18.50
http://www.stenhouse.com/0399.asp?r=n120
Gives language arts and content-area teachers a host of
instructional tools to help students understand the academic
vocabulary in textbooks, tests, articles, and other informational
texts.
Schoolyard-Enhanced Learning: Using the Outdoors as an
Instructional Tool, K-8
Herbert W. Broda * Available in November
184 (est.) pp/paper * $17.50
http://www.stenhouse.com/0729.asp?r=n120
Shows how the school grounds can become an enriching extension of
the classroom, regardless of where your school is. Provides
practical suggestions and step-by-step guidance to help teachers
ensure success when they take a class outside.
Everyday Editing: Inviting Students to Develop Skill and Craft in
Writer's Workshop
Jeff Anderson * Available in November
144 pp/paper * $18.50
http://www.stenhouse.com/0709.asp?r=n120
Offers an approach to meaningful editing within the writing
workshop, with detailed lessons that can be used throughout the
year to replace Daily Oral Language or error-based editing
strategies.
Differentiation: From Planning to Practice, Grades 6-12
Rick Wormeli * Foreword by Carol Ann Tomlinson
Available in November
256 (est.) pp/paper * $23.00
http://www.stenhouse.com/0708.asp?r=n120
Shows you how to plan a differentiated lesson from start to
finish, detailing the steps to take before, during, and after to
deepen connections for students.
Craft Lessons: Teaching Writing K-8 (Second Edition)
Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi * Available in November
176 (est.) pp/paper * $20.00
http://www.stenhouse.com/0706.asp?r=n120
The new edition of this best-selling resource features 17 new
craft lessons, revisions to other lessons, updated book resources,
and new thinking about teaching elements of craft and the reading-
writing connection.
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2) Author Conversations: Mark Overmeyer
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"Choice wasn't enough to motivate students to write in my
classroom."
Student choice is an important part of writing workshop. But what
do you do when students are unable or unwilling to choose? Mark
Overmeyer, author of When Writing Workshop Isn't Working, offers
his take on this question in today's podcast:
http://www.stenhouse.com/overmeyer.asp?r=n120
For details on When Writing Workshop Isn't Working, including the
Foreword by Stephanie Harvey and full text of Chapters 1 and 7,
click here:
http://www.stenhouse.com/0404.asp?r=n120
(Scroll down to the Foreword and Chapter links under the Table of
Contents.)
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3) PD Corner: Podcasting
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"Podcasting will shift much of our time away from an old medium
where we wait for what we might want to hear to a new medium where
we choose what we want to hear, when we want to hear it, and how
we want to give everybody else the option to listen to it as
well." --Doc Searls
What is a podcast? What do you need to listen or subscribe? If you
are new to podcasts and want a quick overview, check out this
podcast primer:
http://www.stenhouse.com/rdPodcastPrimer.htm
Another good place to start is Podcast Alley, where you can read
about, listen to, and find software and forums about podcasts:
The Education Podcast Network collects podcast programming for all
grade levels and a variety of content areas. Browse the subject-
specific podcasts in the left menu--you might find a podcast to
hook students at the beginning of a lesson or even have students
create their own using one of these as a model:
For an easy-to-use tool for creating podcasts try Audacity. This
free software is a complete audio recorder and editor, with
versions for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux/Unix:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
(Click the "Help" tab at the top of this page for an introduction
to using this program.)
No longer tied to paper and print, our new definition of reading
must include technology. Dive into digital literacy with David
Booth's book Reading Doesn't Matter Anymore. Booth illustrates the
disparity between kids' "plugged-in bedrooms" and often
technologically-deprived classrooms. Most interesting is Chapter
3, "Reading Doesn't Matter Anymore, Unless We Understand the Use
of Technology as Literacy," which you can read online:
http://stenhouse.com/8202.asp?r=n120
(Scroll down to the Chapter 3 link in the Table of Contents.)
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4) Just One More Book
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Speaking of David Booth and podcasts, one podcast that all
literacy educators should subscribe to is Just One More Book, "a
podcast about the children's books we love and why we love them."
Over 200 past episodes are indexed by author, illustrator, and
topic. Listen to interviews with David Booth and Tony Stead, both
recorded in May at the IRA conference in Toronto:
http://www.stenhouse.com/rdDavidBoothJustOneMoreBook.htm
http://www.stenhouse.com/rdTonySteadJustOneMoreBook.htm
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