J. Richard Gentry, Ph.D., a former university professor and elementary school teacher, is author of Raising Confident Readers: How to Teach Your Child to Read and Write-From Baby to Age 7 (Da Capo Press/Lifelong Books). His other books include The Science of Spelling (Heinemann) as well as a popular spelling textbook series for grades K-8, Spelling Connections (Zaner-Bloser).Learn more
This new highly acclaimed book for parents and preschool/kindergarten caregivers is impacting the world of beginning reading. Read more....
A seven book series co-authored by Richard Gentry, Jan McNeel and Vickie Wallace-Nesler entitled Getting to the Core of Writing: Essential Lessons for Every [Kindergarten through Sixth Grade] Student is the handbook for writing teachers looking for help with Common Core State Standards, CCSS. It’s very timely—aligned to Common Core State Standards; embedded with six traits quality writing. The books are pick-up-and-use, learn-as-you-go staff development; research based; flexible, practical and affordable ($19.99 per teacher for all lessons in a full-year curriculum).
| This series of seven books gives Kindergarden through 6th grade teachers everything they need for their writing lessons for a full year. Correlated with Common Core States Standards this easy-to-use series will be an invaluable asset for K-6 teachers. |
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To find out more, we invite you to have a look at the website, http://www.coreofwriting.com/, we created to familiarize educators with the books
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