Stenhouse Newslinks
November 13, 2007
C O N T E N T S
1) New from The Sisters, Debbie Diller, Dorn & Soffos
2) PD Corner: Using short mentor texts
3) In the Pipeline
4) Author Conversations: Rick Wormeli, Part I
5) Visit Stenhouse at NCTE in NYC
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1) New from The Sisters, Debbie Diller, Dorn & Soffos
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We've just released three new titles in our Close-Ups series of short, affordable DVDs. Follow the links below for details, including the downloadable viewing guides and a sample clip from each video. All three start shipping at the end of this week!
Good-Fit Books
Gail Boushey and Joan Moser ("The Sisters")
15-minute DVD + viewing guide * $30.00
http://www.stenhouse.com/0724.asp?r=n127
Demonstrates how to launch conversations about good-fit books and provides five simple criteria ("I PICK") that primary students can use to choose books.
Fluency Rubric
Debbie Diller
12-minute DVD + viewing guide * $30.00
http://www.stenhouse.com/0723.asp?r=n127
Shows how students can record themselves reading and score their fluency on a four-step scale, giving them a fun new tool for monitoring pace and expression with a partner or by themselves.
Collaborative Conferences
Linda Dorn and Carla Soffos
12-minute DVD + viewing guide * $30.00
http://www.stenhouse.com/0733.asp?r=n127
Provides examples of three types of collaborative conferences-- brief and focused discussions among a team of teachers who share a common learning goal--that can be scheduled into the teaching day.
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2) PD Corner: Using short mentor texts
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"Teach the writer, not the writing."
--Donald Murray
See how you can use picture books as mentor texts to teach organizational strategies for writing in this lesson from ReadWriteThink, which provides a step-by-step guide and several suggested books for grades 6-8:
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=974
"How Can I Teach Young Writers During Writing Workshops?" from LEADERS (Literacy Educators Assessing and Developing Early Reading
Success) concisely illustrates how to extend the study of mentor texts to spark conversations between students about their own
writing:
http://www.education.pitt.edu/leaders/faq/WritingWorkshops.aspx
Get a glimpse inside writing communities from "Reading Like a Writer," a 30-minute video from Annenberg Media. This is part of a free, online professional development workshop series that uses video and guiding questions to focus attention on how literature, touchstone texts, and mentor texts can be used to teach writing:
http://www.stenhouse.com/rdreadinglike.htm
(Free registration required.)
Less is More: Teaching Literature with Short Texts, Grades 6-12, by Kimberly Campbell is a must-have for language arts teachers.
Investigate how you can use short texts from a variety of genres to teach your students the reading strategies they need to increase comprehension. Browse the entire book online:
http://www.stenhouse.com/0710.asp?r=n127
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3) In the Pipeline
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Have you heard about a forthcoming Stenhouse title and want to receive a notice as soon as it's available online and in print?
Now you can, starting with three titles that are due out in spring 2008. Sign up for our new "In the Pipeline" service:
http://www.stenhouse.com/html/pipeline.htm
We'll be updating this page with new titles as they go into production--three more are due to be added soon!
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4) Author Conversations: Rick Wormeli, Part I
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"I truly don't believe you can differentiate unless you are a mini-expert on the human mind."
In the first of a series of three podcasts, Rick Wormeli introduces his latest book, Differentiation: From Planning to Practice, Grades 6-12. Rick explains how the book makes differentiation "doable" by pulling together all of the tools and techniques that teachers need to plan and implement differentiated
lessons:
http://www.stenhouse.com/html/wormelipodcast.htm
And check out our new Differentiation Spotlight--a collection of best practices for differentiating instruction--at stenhouse.com:
http://www.stenhouse.com/html/news_26.htm
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5) Visit Stenhouse at NCTE in NYC
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Come to the Stenhouse booth (#100) at the NCTE conference in New York this weekend, where you can browse and buy books and videos and meet many of our authors who will be signing copies:
Friday, November 16
12:30-1:30pm Pat Johnson
12:30-1:30pm Kathleen Fay
2:15-3pm Debbie Miller
2:15-3pm Bruce Morgan
3-4pm Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi 3-4pm Jennifer Allen 4-5pm Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis 4-5pm Brad Buhrow and Anne Garcia
Saturday, November 17
10-11am Jeff Anderson
10-11am Aimee Buckner
11am-noon Kimberly Campbell
11am-noon Janet Allen
11am-noon Peter Johnston
11am-noon Jennifer Rowsell
1-2pm Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis 2-3pm Gail Boushey and Joan Moser ("The Sisters") 3-4pm Mary Cowhey
Sunday, November 18
11am-noon Gail Boushey and Joan Moser ("The Sisters")
For more information, including a complete list of sessions with Stenhouse authors, click here:
http://www.stenhouse.com/html/news_34.htm
And congratulations to Teri Lesesne, author of Making the Match and Naked Reading, who will receive the 2007 ALAN award at NCTE.
Teri will be doing several presentations at NCTE, and will also lead a workshop at the UCI Writing Project Annual Conference in Irvine, CA, on December 13:
http://www.stenhouse.com/rduci07.htm
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