The Best-Loved Short Stories of Jesse Stuart Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this book sight-unseen as a gift for my 77-year old mother since she lives not so far from Mr. Stuart's neck of the woods and I thought she would enjoy it (I'd read several on Mr. Stuart's short stories when I was going to school). One minor comment: while the text certainly isn't 'phone book' tiny, I wish they'd used a larger text and made two volumes out of it if necessary. Still, I don't want to be too critical of a good effort, so I'll give it 4. Mr. Stuart was quite an inspiration to the teachers in my hometown of Clarksville, Tennessee.

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The thirty-four stories in this collection, selected fromStuart's 460 published stories, reveal the variety and range of hisfictional world.Some reflect the wonder of growing up, while othersportray the comedy and tragedy in the lives of the strong, rough-hewncharacters of his world.Running through most of them like a goldenthread is Stuart's celebration of the strength and affirmative view oflife of his people, and their love for the land.Stuart's own lovefor the land and its rhythms of life also comes through clearly.

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Their Eyes Were Watching God Literature Guide (Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned Teaching Guide) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is very useful as support material for reading the book. It has everything one would need to support the teaching/reading of TEWWG. It has many activities such as vocabulary lessons, character analysis, quizzes and exams, worksheet with background information to aid in understanding the book. It makes it possible to give students the information needed to follow the story without the teacher having to create them. It also has answers for all of the quizzes and activities. I really like this book and find it very useful.

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Building a Writing Community: A Practical Guide Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is a fabulous resource for constructing a school-wide writing community. We purchased it as a resource for all of our teachers and immediately began discussing it in small groups and staff developments. The teachers see it as a tool to help them keep student writers at the edge of their learning. We have seen writing scores on state-wide assessments increase in our school using the target skills and craft models discussed in this book.
This book is easy to read and will be a great resource for years to come!

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New and experienced teachers appreciate this easy-to-use, comprehensive approach to teaching young writers style, genre characteristics, composition skills, conventions, and the writing process itself. The classroom-tested techniques satisfy young writers' need for structure and content, while offering them freedom to develop their style, repetoire, and voice. The book includes more than 350 classrooms-tested models, lessons, procedures, and activities and 37 reproducibles. If you want to create a community of writers who love to write and speak the language of writers, this book is the key.

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