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Hooked on Meaning:  Writing Craft Video Lessons that Improve Achievement on Writing Tests Through Authentic Instruction Hooked on Meaning: Writing Craft Video Lessons that Improve Achievement on Writing Tests Through Authentic Instruction

In the aftermath of No Child Left Behind, schools and students are judged and even funded by how well they perform on prompted writing tests. In a questionable attempt to insure success, many schools have adopted formulaic approaches to student writing that drain enthusiasm for writing and cause test scores to plateau at the mediocre level.
Publisher: Discover Writing
Author: Barry Lane
Price: $99.00

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51 Wacky We-Search Reports:  Face the Facts with Fun 51 Wacky We-Search Reports: Face the Facts with Fun

51 Wacky We-search Reports will teach you how to hunt for the best facts and turn them into cartoons, parody performances, jokes, wacky poetry and much, much more. And a We-search report is one that you do with friends so you won't ever feel alone again. Promise.
Publisher: Discover Writing
Author: Barry Lane
Price: $15.00

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Barry In A Box: Video Lessons In Revision With Barry Lane For Grades 3-8 Barry In A Box: Video Lessons In Revision With Barry Lane For Grades 3-8

Revision 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. Barry Lane's writing workshops and residences and books have helped thousands of children in all 50 states learn to improve their writing with joy and confidence.
Publisher: Discover Writing
Author: Barry Lane
Price: $399.00

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Barry on Broadway:  Reading, Writing and Laughing Across the Curriculum (A Keynote Speech by Barry Lane) Barry on Broadway: Reading, Writing and Laughing Across the Curriculum (A Keynote Speech by Barry Lane)

What would Hamlet sound like as a Basal Reader? Do grades have a personality? Why do state tests have funny acronyms? What would school be like if humor were state mandated?
Publisher: Discover Writing
Author: Barry Lane
Price: $16.00

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Discovering the Writer Within:  The 40-day Writer's Workshop Discovering the Writer Within: The 40-day Writer's Workshop

Many teachers and aspiring writers use this book as a journal companion. The first 20 days contain mini-lessons that can be used to launch writing workshop in grades 6-12. It can be tailored for the class or for the individual.
Publisher: Discover Writing
Author: Barry Lane, Bruce Ballenger
Price: $18.00

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Hewitt's Guide to Slam Poetry and Poetry Slam Hewitt's Guide to Slam Poetry and Poetry Slam

Tired of the same old way of sharing poetry? The polite applause, the careful silences, the sleep inducing mood in the classroom. Do not fear -- help is on the way. DVD included!
Publisher: Discover Writing
Author: Geof Hewitt
Price: $19.95

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LEARNING ON THEIR FEET LEARNING ON THEIR FEET

LEARNING ON THEIR FEET
Publisher: Discover Writing
Author: CAROL GLYNN
Price: $25.00

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Reviser's Toolbox Reviser's Toolbox

This practical book of one page lessons evolved from experiences in thousands of classrooms and from the work teachers have sent in travels across the country. It contains classroom ready transparencies, conference sheets, dozens of examples from student writing and literature for teaching the power of revision.
Publisher: Discover Writing
Author: Barry Lane
Price: $27.00

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