<p style="line-height: 150%;"><em></em></p> <p style="line-height: 150%;"><em>"These are the tried and true lessons I return to year after year. The lessons that students said made a difference in their writing and that will bring power and beauty to your students' writing and to your writing classroom."</em></p> <p style="font-style: italic; line-height: 150%; text-align: right;">-Leslie Blauman, author of <em>The Inside Guide to the Reading-Writing Classroom</em></p> <p style="font-style: italic; line-height: 150%;">"What's wrong with a little mentorship?" <strong>Leslie Blauman</strong> asks. Reap the benefits of her years as a Public Education and Business Coalition (PEBC) teacher with 31 of her best kid-tested and approved lessons that lead to great student writing. Not only are these research-based writing lessons kids' self-proclaimed favorites, they incorporate mentor texts, support the Common Core State Standards, and are research-based.</p> <p style="font-style: italic; line-height: 150%;">Four lesson clusters reflect Leslie's core beliefs for teaching:</p> <ul style="font-style: italic; margin-top: 0in; list-style-type: disc;"> <li style="line-height: 150%;">writing narratives, informative texts, and opinion pieces/arguments</li> <li style="line-height: 150%;">a love of language, word play, vocabulary, and poetry</li> <li style="line-height: 150%;">writing fictional narratives</li> <li style="line-height: 150%;">writing research-based nonfiction.</li> </ul> <p style="line-height: 150%;"><em>Use these generative lessons as a springboard-giving them your personal stamp-and watch as they lead to great writing for authentic purposes and in testing situations. <br /> </em><em style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br /> <em style="border:0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; color: #222222; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: #eef1f4; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="border:0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: normal;"><strong>Click to save 15% when you buy Leslie's Kid-Tested Writing Lessons and her Inside Guide to the Reading/Writing Classroom together.</strong></span></em></span></em></p>