Helping students put words on a page can be hard enough. “I don’t have anything to write about!” they say. And when writing does happen, how do you help them develop these ideas into more effective pieces?

A powerful tool to jumpstart writing

In The Quickwrite Handbook, master teacher Linda Rief shares 100 compelling mentor... more

“Students need elbow room to make decisions about what to write, revise, and publish. Adolescents crave responsibility. This handbook supports students by showing them how to assume greater responsibility and independence with writing assignments.”

The Smart Writing Handbook reinforces important lessons from Smart Writing’s... more

“The knowledge that forms the foundation for reading and writing is built throughout early childhood through play, language, and literacy experiences.” –Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell

Play and language are critical early literacy learning tools for the prekindergarten child. Through play and language, they learn about their world and... more

Altogether, this is a thoroughly researched, well-organized, and highly readable book.
—Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy