Stenhouse Newslinks
September 28, 2007
C O N T E N T S
1) Do your students hate editing?
2) Author Conversations: Brad Buhrow and Anne Upczak Garcia
3) PD Corner: Teaching vocabulary
4) Resources from the National Writing Project
5) Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on
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1) Do your students hate editing?
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"Each lesson in this book is a little chunk of the editing story, a digestible everyday chunk, a part of the editing process that interweaves editing, grammar, and writer's craft, creating both writers and editors."
Elevate your editing instruction beyond errors and corrections with Jeff Anderson's new book Everyday Editing. Jeff sets the stage by helping you define editing for yourself and your students as a thoughtful, meaningful process. Then he shows you how to weave editing into writer's workshop every day through a series of invitations, with ten lesson sets that cover a wide range of grammar and punctuation, from apostrophes to verb choice.
Everyday Editing is with the printer now and will be ready to ship in mid-October. In the meantime you can browse the entire book
online:
http://www.stenhouse.com/0709.asp?r=n122
Everyday Editing: Inviting Students to Develop Skill and Craft in Writer's Workshop
Jeff Anderson * Available in mid-October * 176 pp/paper * $18.50
http://www.stenhouse.com/0709.asp?r=n122
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2) Author Conversations: Brad Buhrow and Anne Upczak Garcia
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In our latest podcast Brad Buhrow and Anne Garcia, authors of Ladybugs, Tornadoes, and Swirling Galaxies, discuss creating comfortable and safe spaces for English language learners, tapping into kids' experiences, and how their teaching style encourages critical thinking:
http://www.stenhouse.com/html/news_17.htm?r=n122
We've just posted an extensive gallery of photographs of student work that extend the many examples in Ladybugs, Tornadoes, and Swirling Galaxies. Topics include art, mind maps, biliteracy, inquiry, narratives, and poems, with commentary for each photo by Brad and Anne:
http://www.stenhouse.com/html/gallery.htm?r=n122
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3) PD Corner: Teaching vocabulary
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"Providing vocabulary instruction is one of the most significant ways in which teachers can improve students' reading and listening comprehension. It can also be one of the most challenging things for teachers to do well."
--Mary E. Curtis & Ann Marie Longo
Why teach vocabulary? Curtis and Longo's article "Teaching Vocabulary to Adolescents to Improve Comprehension" details successful vocabulary interventions and their foundations.
Relevant to all grade levels, this well-researched, organized, and practical article will connect with solid classroom practice:
http://www.readingonline.org/articles/curtis/
Do your students struggle with vocabulary when reading independently online? Have them try VoyCabulary, a unique Web tool that turns words on any web page into clickable links to your choice of word reference sites:
Need another word for "like"? Enter it into Visual Thesaurus and watch as a word web of synonyms materializes for each dictionary sense. Click on linked senses or words and the web transforms into a new web before your eyes. This is a paid subscription service but you can try it at no cost:
http://www.visualthesaurus.com
Inside Words: Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary is Janet Allen's latest journey into the world of words. From concept ladders to Frayer models and word sorts to word walls, Inside Words marries vocabulary instruction to content literacy. The book starts shipping next week, but you can browse it online in its entirety now:
http://www.stenhouse.com/0399.asp?r=n122
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4) Resources from the National Writing Project
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The National Writing Project just launched their new website, and it includes an extensive resource section that's well organized by topic. Use the menu on the right side of the page to browse topics (most of the content is under "Teaching Writing"):
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/doc/resources.csp
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5) Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on
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About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter (3,793-
page) Oxford English Dictionary:
http://www.stenhouse.com/rdhyphens.htm
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