Product Description: How can you bring grammar to life for your students? By using everyday sources and an integrated approach in your classroom. In Bringing Grammar to Life, Deborah Dean offers concrete examples and sample classroom dialogue that shows what it means to integrate grammar into the content of a class...read more

Product Description: "What works?"As teachers, it's a question we often ask ourselves about teaching writing. We consider questions such as how can the writing process, including prewriting, product goals, and inquiry, become more meaningful for students? What is the best way to use models in the classroom? What can targeted strategies, word processing, or collaboration do for students' writing? How can writing-to-learn develop students' overall writing skills? How can sentence combining and summarizing benefit writing? Through teacher-friendly language and classroom examples, Deborah Dean helps answer these kinds of questions by taking a close look at research-based practices that have proved to be effective and interpreting the principles behind them...read more