Books with author Lola%20M.%20Schaefer

These easy, step-by-step lessons show teachers how to use the interactive whiteboard to engage students in learning excellent writing craft techniques with models of strong writing. Expert writing teacher Lola Schaefer covers all the essentials-organizing, setting a strong focus, writing convincing leads, and more! Includes tips for both Promethean and SMART Board users, plus CD with models to use on screen. For use with Grades 5 & Up.

Simple yet powerful, this collection of mini-lessons is the perfect introduction to writing for our youngest learners. Writer and teacher Lola M. Schaefer shares her classroom-tested ideas for teaching children how to find and focus ideas, use drawing to brainstorm and organize, choose powerful verbs, and so much more. She also addresses spacing letters and words, spelling, punctuation, and other basic skills—all within the context of students’ own writing. Complete with models, think-alouds, and literature links, this rich resource will support writing workshop all year long! For use with Grades K–1.

These easy, step-by-step lessons use the tools of the whiteboard to help students identify the elements of excellent writing and then apply them in their own work. Writing skills covered include all the essentials for grades 2–4—developing an idea, organizing, using details, writing convincing leads, and more! Includes tips for both Promethean and SMART Board users, plus a CD with 20 writing models to print or display on screen. For use with Grades 2–4.

Please, don’t paws. Be mine right now… and I’ll show my love with a soft . . . meow. Guess who? I'm a kitten!In this adorable board book, kids can read the riddles and unfold the pages for a giant 14 x 14 inch surprise! The clues on each page hint to which furry, feathered and flippered friend wants to be their valentine. Clever rhymes and big, bold photographs of adorable frogs, kittens, skunks, and even a toothy shark make this book an interactive delight for all!

In this concise and thoughtful guide, veteran teacher and children’s author Lola Schaefer offers classroom-tested strategies that help students elaborate effectively. Lessons on choosing precise nouns and verbs, developing an extensive vocabulary, creating powerful comparisons, questioning the writing, and showing emotions through action help students enrich their writing. An essential resource for any writing teacher.

In this concise and thoughtful guide, expert teacher and veteran author Lola Schaefer offers classroom-tested lessons and practical strategies that help students identify voice in writing and learn how to include it in their own work. Students find their voices through quickwrites, author studies, guided revision practice, compare-and-contrast exercises, and more. Complete with fiction and nonfiction models, student samples, conference transcripts, and classroom vignettes, this is an essential resource for any writing teacher. For use with Grades 2-4.

A concise and thoughtful guide that shows teachers how to introduce, teach, and reinforce organizational strategies. Includes lessons on planning and organizing personal narratives, fiction, poetry, and information writing. Full of model plans, student samples, conference transcripts, and classroom vignettes, this resource will keep the topic of organization fresh and alive all year long. For use with Grades 2-4.

A concise and thoughtful guide that helps teachers get students to generate meaningful writing ideas. Veteran teacher and children’s book author Lola Schaefer demonstrates how to help students find ideas that matter—in everyday life, in books, through careful observation, by wondering about the world, and by sketching images and taking photographs, among other strategies. An essential resource for any writing teacher.

A toad enjoys a yummy meal on a warm summer night until the porch light goes off! Additional information about toads is included.Seedling books help beginning readers grow through engaging stories and kid-friendly photos and artwork. Best for reading at the earliest stages, these books use clear print, ample spacing, limited vocabulary, and simple story lines to help children practice word building, improve fluency, and garner a love for reading.Seedling has an established reputation both in the classroom and at home as one of the best book collections for young readers.