100 Quickwrites by Linda Rief

This book is great for mini lessons to get their brains working, or longer poetry lessons! If you ever get a chance to see Linda present at a conference, make sure you do. She is one of the most inspirational speakers/teachers I have ever seen.

Creating Writers by Vicki Spandel

This book has a tremendous amount of information on the traits and tons of lesson ideas. I served as a teacher editor on the new fifth edition of this awesome book.

The Northern Nevada Writing Project's Going Deep with 6 Traits Guide

Lessons galore!

Coming for summer, 2008: I will begin offering some of my very best and newest classroom innovations for sale from this page.

April 2008: Using Chapter Book Excerpts as Mentor Texts in 6-Trait Lessons.

I just received my draft of Vicki Spandel's soon-to-be published "Creating Revisers and Editors," which I am reading to provide a review for the publisher. I can already tell it's going to be a fantastic read!

I love the Magnetic Poetry site. See all my web favorites by going to my blue page.

Trust me, the NNWP's Mini-Lesson of the Month Club is the best free thing you can sign up for on the Internet! Join here.

If it's April, then my new I-Pod lesson, inspired by Dave Matthews' "Grey Street" is available!

My Little Red Riding Hooks one-page resource has been featured in the NNWP's Going Deep with 6-Trait Language Workbook, their Secondary Writing Guide, and on the WritingFix website.

Come get your own copy at my pink Resource page.