{"product_id":"hidden-gems-naming-and-teaching-from-the-brilliance-in-every-students-writing-9780325029658","title":"Hidden Gems: Naming and Teaching from the Brilliance in Every Student's Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Open Katherine Bomers staggeringly beautiful  generous book-you may realize that you have never before see your students writing at all.\" -Lucy Calkins  Author of Units of Study for Teaching Writing Hidden Gems will transform the way we read student work. -Thomas Newkirk  Author of Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones You dont get true  fire-in-the-belly energy for writing because you fear getting a bad grade  but because you have something to say and your own way of saying it. -Katherine Bomer If youre like Katherine Bomer  youve grown weary of searching for whats wrong in student writing  and you want better ways to the respond to pieces whose beauty and intelligence doesnt shine on the first read. Now she shares how she learned instead to search-sometimes near the surface  sometimes deep beneath-to find  celebrate  and teach from writers Hidden Gems. \"My hope is that as teachers we can respond to all students writing with astonished  appreciative  awe-struck eyes \" writes Katherine. Through protocols  sample assessments  and demonstrations with actual student work  she shows how to bring the brilliant facets of your writers to the surface as you: spot hidden stylistic gems in writing that is unconventional or vernacular uncover content and organizational gems even when you dont find the subject matter engaging or significant respond by naming and celebrating writers gems instead of hunting for mistakes give lasting compliments using the inspiring language of published writers that motivate students to keep writing  revising  and polishing their gems. Accept Katherine Bomers invitation to read work \"by young  unseasoned writers the way we would inquire our way into a poem by Nikki Giovanni  Jimmy Santiago Baca  or Naomi Shihab Nye and to notice the quirky brilliance and humor  the heartbreaking honesty  and surreal beauty in even the slightest bits of writing.\" Youll soon discover that student writers often perform remarkable feats in the craft of writing  and that you can achieve remarkable results with them when you uncover theirHidden Gems.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45118281908277,"sku":"ByrdShop_0325029652","price":21.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780325029658.jpg?v=1781685750","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/hidden-gems-naming-and-teaching-from-the-brilliance-in-every-students-writing-9780325029658","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}