All Products by Donald H. Graves

Children Want to Write (Audiobook)

Thomas Newkirk , Donald H. Graves , Penny Kittle

Pub Date: 10/1/2019
Product Type: Audiobook
Grade: K-12th

Children Want to Write is a collection of Donald Graves most significant writings paired with video that illuminates his research and his inspiring work with teachers. See the earliest documented use of invented spelling, the earliest attempts to guide young children through a writing process, the earliest conferences. This collection... more

Children Want to Write

Thomas Newkirk , Donald H. Graves , Penny Kittle

Pub Date: 8/13/2019
Product Type: BOOK WITH ONLINE
Grade: K-12th

Children Want to Write is a collection of Donald Graves most significant writings paired with video that illuminates his research and his inspiring work with teachers. See the earliest documented use of invented spelling, the earliest attempts to guide young children through a writing process, the earliest conferences. This collection... more

Inside Writing

Donald H. Graves , Penny Kittle

Pub Date: 5/14/2019
Product Type: Bundle
Grade: 2nd-6th

Your curriculum is packed, and you have barely enough instructional time to teach students essential writing skills, let alone how to combine those skills to form cohesive, compelling work. Fortunately, there is a solution to the time crunch, a quicker, more effective way to help children understand the complexities of writing, and... more

A Sea of Faces

Donald H. Graves

Pub Date: 9/11/2006
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K-6th

For years Don Graves’ wisdom has helped create meaningful connections between teachers, students, and curriculum and brought a more humane approach to teaching and learning. In A Sea of Faces Don returns to the theme of knowing your students. With an extraordinary, personal vision, and his warm, hopeful touch, Graves offers reflections... more

My Quick Writes

Donald H. Graves , Penny Kittle

Pub Date: 9/12/2005
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 2nd-6th

Part writer's notebook and part sourcebook, My Quick Writes includes more than sixty of Donald Graves' favorite and most effective prompts for practicing and reflecting on your own writing processes. Graves and Penny Kittle walk you through how to do Quick Writes and the role they play in their own writing and teaching. Then they... more

Inside Writing

Donald H. Graves , Penny Kittle

Pub Date: 9/12/2005
Product Type: Bundle
Grade: 2nd-6th

Learn more about the Heinemann Seminar based on this book: Inside the Teaching of Writing Your curriculum is packed, and you have barely enough instructional time to teach students essential writing skills, let alone how to combine those skills to form cohesive, compelling work. Fortunately, there is a solution to the time crunch,... more

Teaching Day by Day

Donald H. Graves

Pub Date: 1/12/2004
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K-8th

At night, when I’m exhausted from a teaching day, it will be a comfort to have Don’s words as my last thoughts. In the morning, a shot of Graves will give me energy for the teaching day ahead.—Nancie Atwell How easy it is to get into an emotional rut. To get stuck in preparing lesson plans and tests. To mistake busyness for... more

Writing, 20th Anniversary Ed

Donald H. Graves

Pub Date: 1/16/2003
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K-5th

Twenty years after Don Graves first guided you to new, more effective, and more professionally satisfying practices, Heinemann celebrates his continuing influence with a special Twentieth-Anniversary Edition of Writing, the book that revolutionized writing instruction. "Children still want to write—if we let them. These words... more

Testing Is Not Teaching

Donald H. Graves

Pub Date: 9/6/2002 1
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K-12th

In the rush to implement high-stakes testing, narrow standards, and top-down management of public education, the interests of two key stakeholders have been ignored: students and teachers. Not anymore. In Testing Is Not Teaching, his most political book to date, Don Graves focuses on the education issues of our day—and he doesn't... more

The Energy to Teach

Donald H. Graves

Pub Date: 1/26/2001
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K-12th

Graves offers an at-once practical, philosophical, and positive framework for making our teaching days rich and rewarding rather than merely frustrating and wearying. —The Quarterly Over the course of a year you and thousands of other teachers will spend countless hours with children and experience the full range of... more