New Releases by Jane Wagner

When a family loses a baby due to miscarriage or shortly after birth, it can be hard to know what to say to grieving siblings. While the author wishes no one would ever need to use this book, the sad reality is that sometimes babies go to heaven much sooner than we would like. Our Baby is a Saint in Heaven is told from the perspective of an older sister whose mother has miscarried a child. The older sister shares her grief and explains how her younger sibling is now a saint in heaven. She can ask her younger sibling to pray for her and help her.This tender book can be a huge help in a difficult time when grieving parents may lack the words to help their children understand baby loss. It can provide hope and comfort that children will one day be reunited with the younger sibling that they have lost.

Includes exercises that review the basics of grammar and practice proofreading, report writing, sentence structure and word usage.

Encourages creativity and builds confidence by making writing fun! Seventy-two four-part lessons strengthen writing skills by focusing on parts of speech, word usage, sentence structure, punctuation and proofreading. Each level includes a Writer's Handbook at the end of the book that offers tips. Based on the highly respected McGraw-Hill Companies' language arts textbooks. Full-color illustrations. Consumable. (Available now)

Includes exercises that teach the basics of grammar and writing.

"Does classroom drama actually teach anything?" In this book, the best studies in both the qualitative and quantitative research paradigms are presented.

No other tools will "round out" your elementary students' language arts skills like Language Roundup. This program is indispensable for students and teachers alike in supporting key areas of oral and written expression, correct usage, grammar, mechanics, and writing skills most important for grades 2-6.

A collection of the wit and wisdom of six-year-old Edith Ann (as created by Lily Tomlin) offers her humorous observations on modern life, childhood, grown-ups, and other important topics. Reprint.

Presents various challenging situations English teachers will most likely face, and provides questions to consider and thoughts on each issue. Covers such areas as lessons that flop, the paper load, curriculum, second-language learners, abused students, and attacks on the teacher's competence.

This is the fourth edition of James Moffett's seminal text, first published in 1968, which set forth the rationale and practices for the kind of individualized, interactive, integrative language learning environment that only today is coming into its own. It proposed whole language, collaborative learning, active learning, writing workshops, the process approach, student empowerment, portfolio assessment, and the substitution of children's literature for basal readers many years before these cornerstones of enlightened English language arts teaching became fashionable. The book is the centerpiece of life work devoted to curricular innovation and constitutes a truly original approach to the nature of discourse. It is cross-referenced to an equally original collection of anthologies that illustrate with both professional and student writing the reading, writing, talking, dramatizing repertories it stakes out--and to Moffett's other works that build on and extend this one. From the second edition on, the book has profited from the input of Betty Jane Wagner, a master teacher of teachers. Student-centered Language Art, K-12 is arguably the most comprehensive, practically detailed, and original textbook/resource book on English education. It covers theory and practice, elementary and secondary, drama, oral-language activities, and initial literacy as well as general reading and writing. Furthermore, verbal learning is placed in a social context and in the context of nonverbal media and arts that compete with and complement language. The authors have made this edition more compact by shifting some material to a new edition of Active Voice and by abridging matters that no longer need to bedealt with at length because the profession is catching up with the book. They have recast some matters to tie in with current vocabulary and understanding, and some practices have been updated to utilize current technology. In this fourth edition, the book is shorter in length but broader in perspective as it continues to break new ground to integrate language arts with other learning.

This side-splitting yet dramatic tour-de-force features a dazzling parade of characters immediately familiar to the coast-to-coast Wagner/Tomlin fans. Enhanced with remarkable onstage photographs of Tomlin. 78 halftones. (Poetry/Plays)

Covers curriculum and methods of language arts and reading for both elementary and secondary school as well as teaching English in basic college courses.

This comedy spotlights the saga of sweet Pat Kramer's tragic tumble to international freakdom as she is afflicted with the heartbreak of shrinking and her valiant struggle to survive against overpowering odds that might threaten all humanity.

Easy-to-use diagrams on how: to laminate activity cards and games, simple lettering, preserving throw-away materials, bookbinding, new uses for the overhead and opaque projectors, makeing slides, filmstrips, tapes and films.

We're confident that this new edition of Betty Jane Wagner's seminal work will be welcomed by drama educators throughout the English-speaking world. Heathcote's work has been profoundly influential in that world. Until the publication in 1976 of Dorothy Heathcote: Drama as a Learning Medium, however, Heathcote's techniques - the pedagogy of drama - lacked full explanation. Wagner's book gives us just that: a close-up detailing of this gifted, dynamic teacher in a variety of classroom settings, along with analyses of Heathcote's remarkable improvisations with young people. Indeed, much of Betty Jane Wagner's book can fairly be described as drama within a drama. It's an engrossing work, for we listen and watch as Heathcote elicits drama of their own making from students across grade levels and disciplines. Wagner's goal is to share with teachers how they, using Heathcote's methods, can generate significant learning experiences.

Pupil's workbook containing punctuation exercises.