Learn how to increase students' skills as writers and storytellers with an innovative, inclusive, and empowering framework for teaching writing that centers student voice. Tell Your Story: Teaching Students to Become World-Changing Thinkers and Writers explores how to help students see themselves as writers and storytellers who are developing the skills and techniques to communicate in ways that resonate with various audiences. When students make that shift and see themselves as active and valued participants in their own communities, cultures, and literary journeys, they become powerful writers eager to explore and share ideas.With the strategies in this book, you can Create an environment of belonging that fosters creativity and confidence. Demonstrate the value of oral and visual storytelling. Teach story structure, both old and new and in a variety of genres. Offer a variety of role models and exemplars through mentor texts. Assess and confer with student writers to help them improve their skills. Value students' voices as future agents of change. When you help students unlock the stories they want to tell, you'll see writing anxieties and resistance fade as students come alive to the multitude of ways in which they can make their voices heard. Storytelling can be a wellness practice, a tool for empowerment, and a method for self-understanding and self-expression. For all students, storytelling is a path to lifelong learning and to realizing the full power of their voice and their potential to change the world.

An illuminating, first-of-its-kind resource to help parents foster a love of writing in their child's life.

New educational research reveals that writing is as fundamental to a child's development as reading. But though there are books that promote literacy, no book guides parents in helping their child cultivate a love of writing. In this book, Pam Allyn, a nationally recognized educator and literacy expert, reminds us that writing is not only a key skill but also an essential part of self-discovery and critical to success later in life. Allyn offers the "the five keys" to help kids WRITE-Word Power, Ritual, Independence, Time, and Environment-along with fun, imaginative prompts to inspire and empower children to put their thoughts on the page.

A groundbreaking blueprint for developing every child's abilities, "Your Child's Writing Life" teaches parents how to give a gift that will last a lifetime.

"The Road to Knowledge: Information and Research" guides teachers and students through three rich, dynamic lesson sets that focus on informational texts in the primary grades in ways that enliven inform, and inspire. With these lessons as a guide, students learn how to use the unique text features and structure of informational text to notice patterns and identify key ideas and concepts while building a vocabulary of domain-specific language. They see how to navigate informational texts and cite evidence, taking learning to a new level. With this book as a guide, students see how to:

• Read and listen carefully to explore nonfiction topics and discover important and interesting facts and details.
• Begin to notice and understand how to use text features and text structure to support their understanding and navigation of informational text.
• Become curious researchers who ask and answer their own questions.
• Compare and contrast sources on the same topic.
• Learn to take notes in an organized and purposeful manner.
• Share their discoveries through writing, speaking, and visual presentation.