""I'm convinced that Howard Gardner was right when he suggested that all leaders need chances to retreat to the mountains. I hope this book gives you metaphorical mountains. I hope that Leading Well allows you to step back from the hurly burly of school leadership, to see far horizons, to breathe a new kind of air, and to return home with new energy and vision. And more than that, I hope the book helps you give the teachers and children ..."
""As challenging as it must have been to write and finesse the adoption of the Common Core State Standards, that accomplishment is nothing compared to the work of teaching in ways that bring all students to these ambitious expectations. The goal is clear. The pathway is not." -Lucy Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth, and Christopher Lehman The Common Core is written, but the plan for implementing the Common Core is not. Lucy Calkins and her colle ..."
"This unit serves as a primer for what it means to participate in an intense reading workshop. It introduces students to a variety of instructional methods and coaches both teachers and students on how to harness those methods to increase reading expertise and independence. Students will grow as readers of narrative texts by learning to: -Consider the ways writers reveal complex character traits - investigate how setting can shape charac ..."
"Supporting dreams of fabulous escape and transformation, fantasy literature can be especially compelling for adolescents. Mary Ehrenworth offers a unit of study that harnesses the power of this expansive and poignant genre to lure even reluctant readers into reading epic novels with passion and stamina. Adhering to reading workshop principles and the classic session architecture honed by Lucy Calkins in the Units of Study series, this u ..."
"Grammar is the gatekeeper to a culture of power, yet it is also the power behind the startling beauty and robustness of the English language. In ""The Power of Grammar"," Mary Ehrenworth and Vicki Vinton show you how these two notions of power can help your grammar instruction address the practical and aesthetic needs of your student writers. Ehrenworth and Vinton explore the impact of conventions on writing, and they offer you new and ..."
Looking to Write(1st Edition) Students Writing Through the Visual Arts by MaryEhrenworth, Maxine Greene Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2003 by Heinemann ISBN-13: 978-0-325-00463-1, ISBN: 0-325-00463-3
" Breathe new passion into teaching writing. Teach it as an aesthetic experience. Have your students of writing start with art. Mary Ehrenworth particularly appreciates the meaning and inspiration the visual arts can afford the writing process. An art historian turned literacy consultant, she conducts workshops that use visual prompts as tools to help students locate significant things to write about and craft beautiful writing in resp ..."
""The Guide to the Reading Workshop: Middle School Grades offers a comprehensive but concise introduction to: the need for this series; research on what adolescent readers need; ways to launch and sustain independent reading; a big-picture ..."
"In the second unit, Tackling Complexity: Moving Up Levels of Nonfiction, children investigate the ways nonfiction texts are becoming more complex, and they learn strategies to tackle these new challenges."
"Then in Unit 2, The Literary Essay: Analyzing Craft and Theme, students return to literary essays, writing arguments and counterarguments about themes in texts, supporting their positions with details of plot, character, and author’s ..."
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"This book includes teaching students to build their own background knowledge, to collect and revisit notes, and to be able to work as a study partner in collaborative groups"--"
"In the first unit, Interpreting Characters: The Heart of the Story, children study the complexity of characters and explore themes while developing skills such as inference and interpretation."