Provides exercises designed to help one write more freely and expressively and includes advice on evaluating and editing one's work

Product Description: Enter into a written journey of self-exploration. With scores of inspiring exercises and motivating examples author Barry Lane leads the reader through the three "r"s of writing: Remembering: digging up old stories. Reframing: questioning and re-seeing the past...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Grade level K-12 Written and edited by Barry Lane Barry Lane’s Reviser’s Toolbox gives teachers classroom ready examples and lessons to share revision concepts like leads, endings, snapshots, thoughtshots, exploded moments and scenes with their students...read more

Continues the famous story by explaining what happened between the tortoise and the hare the next day, year, and decade, offering additional morals along the way.

Product Description: DVD includes a copy of Reviser's ToolboxRevision is not the act of fixing your mistakes or redoing a draft. Real revision involves, re-thinking and re-seeing a piece of writing using the special tools of a writer s craft to improve your work...read more

Provides information on hunting for facts and turning them into an entertaining research report.

Product Description: At a time when the writing process is sometimes viewed as a seven-step recipe, with revision one of those steps, author Barry Lane inspires language arts teachers to approach the subject with flexibility and playfulness. He encourages both teachers and students to enjoy a sense of discovery and surprise in their writing, as well as to examine and explore their own distinct revising styles...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Provides exercises designed to help one write more freely and expressively and includes advice on evaluating and editing one's work

Product Description: As much a writing text as a self-help guide, THE HEALING PEN will help you craft a better life through your writing and better writing through your life. The three sections of the book, Remembering, Reframing and Re-experiencing, launch the reader into an exploratory jorney that examines the past, brings to it knowledge of the present, and creates a new future fueled by this knowledge...read more

Product Description: Author Barry Lane witnessed the willingness of Abigail Bellamy who was a member of his children's choir consistently offer loving friendship to everyone she met, and her example inspired the character and story for this book. There is no doubt this book is sure to become a must-read favorite bedtime story...read more

Build young writers’ competence and confidence with Vicki Spandel’s 6-Trait approach!    “[A]n essential read for primary writing teachers everywhere!”  —Wendy Ellis, Literacy Specialist, Arkansas State Department of Education   Creating Young Writers is now packed with more activities, more strategies, more lesson plans, and a goldmine of resources that every new or veteran educator should have! Vicki Spandel’s exploration of her powerful 6-trait approach will guide teachers in planning a successful elementary writing program that will help build strong writers from the very beginning!   The treasured resource for fostering early writing skills just got better!  Highlights more recommended books to use as mentor resources for every trait –including conventions! Expands teachers’ understanding of how to respond positively to every writer’s work. Encourages teachers who have not tried modeling with their students to do so with confidence. Offers positive assessment options for virtually ANY writer with revised continuums that focus on what beginning writers CAN do. Includes a study guide-oriented collection of discussion questions and challenging activities, perfect for a study group!

Product Description: The story of Canadian Pacific is one of the greatest stories in the world. Straddling the continent for more than a century and globe for more than fifty years, Canadian Pacific is inextricably linked with the history of Canada itself...read more